Connective Technologies, Inc. announces a marketing alliance with Rural Computing Consultants, Inc. and Farmers Mutaul Relief and Woodville Mutual, as first production clients of the integrated agency interface solution
Houston, TX, (BusinessWire) August 21, 2008, Connective Technologies announces a marketing alliance with Rural Computing Consultants ("RCC") for providing TEAM-UP Download and Translation Solutions to the mid-west mutual insurance marketplace. Connective and RCC are already in production with this strategic alliance with Farmers Mutual Relief and Woodville Mutual, both mutual insurance companies domiciled in Ohio. The TEAM-UP solution provides once-and-done processing in an industry compliant, data-secure environment for agency downloads.
Kevin F. Sheehan, Executive Vice President of RCC commented, "Agency download is one of the top challenges facing both carriers and agencies today. The power of seamlessly integrating our contemporary technologies and providing the value-added service of making it easier to do business for our carrier clients with their respective independent agencies is what sold me on this alliance. Our client engagement team was also impressed with the turn-key approach of implementing TEAM-UP Solutions-and obtaining a production environment, from project initiation to full roll-out to all agencies, within just a couple of months."
Dic Marxen, CEO of Connective Technologies adds, "This is our fourth marketing alliance established this year, and yet again, one that extends our countrywide penetration-this one into a very strategic mid-west mutual insurance marketplace for us. Our respective clients are excited about the premier serviceability that both RCC and TEAM-UP have brought to their agency base. It has been awesome to share in this overall collaborative success!"
TEAM-UP Download is an Internet-secure offering being leveraged by more than 50 P&C carriers in providing accessibility to over 20,000 communicating agency pairs using more than 40 different agency management systems throughout every region in the United States. Now in its third major release, the product has matured to ensure agencies have a seamless migration from other download processes. The improved self-reliant features such as single-policy, real-time archival retrievals by the agents, improved group management distribution and tracking features that ease and accelerate the registration process for both agencies and carriers, have been implemented with TEAM-UP's Service Oriented Architecture. This environment ensures a seamless fit into carriers' existing agency portals and incorporates a single-process entry point at the agency for accessing multiple carriers downloads.
About Farmers Mutual Relief:
Farmers Mutual Relief Association was formed in 1874 by four farmers from Wyandot County who wanted to share in each other's risks and was incorporated in 1878. Farmers Mutual Relief Association has had three other Mutuals merge into it since 1995 and currently has over 70 agents writing for us. It was realized in the early 1990's that technology would play a major role in increasing our premium and adding new agents to write their business with us. The agent is our client. Without the agent, Farmers Mutual Relief would not be where it is today. With the advanced technology, our role in the industry would be limited to a smaller marketing area. Farmers Mutual Relief Association currently has agents in the majority of the counties in Ohio.
About Woodville Mutual:
Woodville Mutual originated as the German Farmers Mutual Protective Association in 1859. The German Farmers Mutual Protective Cyclone Association was incorporated in Woodville in 1909. The two associations were consolidated as Woodville Mutual in 1960. Today, Woodville Mutual has grown to a property insurance company with over 4,200 policyholders and over $800,000,000 at risk.
About Rural Computing Consultants Inc.:
Rural Computer Consultants' Mutual Insurance Processing System (MIPS) is a complete processing package specifically built for the mutual insurance industry. Leading the mutual insurance software industry, RCC has developed a fully integrated software package that includes policy issuance/printing, integrated rating with user maintainable rates, billing and late notices, electronic funds transferring with integrated ACH and/or credit card processing, agent statement/reporting, unparalleled report processing, claims management, premium/loss ratio analysis. Combined with optional G/L, A/P, and Payroll, MIPS will provide your mutual with a complete office processing package, saving processing time and eliminating duplicate processing. As a leader, RCC can provide web based payment processing, agent web policy lookup, paperless document imaging and filing; and much more. Contact Brian "Dave" Gens at 877-568-4585 or bgens@rccbi.com, or visit our website at www.rccbi.com.
About Connective Technologies, Inc.
Connective Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of e-Commerce business solutions for the property and casualty insurance industry, specializing in Internet interface solutions for carriers and their agents. Connective has used its many years of experience with leading agency management systems and traditional batch EDI to pioneer the approach, which has helped it become the leading provider of bridging and Internet-based interface solutions in the industry. Connective provides implementation services for its flagship products, TEAM-UP Upload, Download, and Translation Solutions, as well as Site Development and Web Services. To learn more about Connective products and services, contact Dic Marxen at (817) 377-0815, by email at: dmarxen@connectivetech.com, or visit our website at www.connectivetech.com.
