ALLIANCES & PARTNERSHIPS

INSURANCE SERVICES OFFICE (ISO, New York) has joined ACORD (Pearl River, NY) to facilitate collaborationamong insurance and financial organizations in the development of data-transmission standards.

Third-party adminstrator ULTRABENEFITS (Worcester, MA) has agreed to use health benefits management software solutions provider ELDORADO COMPUTING, INC.'s (Phoenix) HEALTH-wareASP service and technology.

SUNGARD EMPLOYEE BENEFIT SYSTEMS and PYRAMID DIGITAL SOLUTIONS, both of Birmingham, AL, have entered into a distribution and licensing agreement whereby SunGardEBS will be the exclusive distributor of the Pyramid suite of products to the retirement plan services market, and Pyramid will be the preferred provider of Internet front-end packaged solutions for SunGard's Omni-Plan and OmniPlus recordkeeping systems.

Digital workspace provider INTRALINKS (New York) has joined global insurance industry standard-setting group, WORLDWIDE INSURANCE E-COMMERCE ORGANIZATION (WISe, London), as an associate member.

Enterprise data integration software provider METAGON TECHNOLOGIES (Matthews, NC) is partnering with UNICON GROUP (St. Louis) to deliver online extended access to legacy data on IBM, Unisys and Bull mainframes.