ALLIANCES AND PARTNERSHIPS

SOLCORP GETS PRODUCT
SOLCORP (Downers Grove, IL) will acquire the rights to Essentium B.V.'s (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) suite of software solutions. The company will market the software worldwide under the name SOLCORP/ProductXpress.

WEALTHPORT PARTNERS
Internet software development company, G.A. Sullivan (St. Louis) will provide its Internet architecture knowledge to Wealthport's (Nashville) Internet-based sales and customer relations management tool for the financial services industry.

IWAY & TAVIZ PAIR
New York-based middleware provider iWay Software and Taviz Technology (Palo Alto, CA), an e-integration solutions provider, will partner to cross-promote iWay's integration offerings with Taviz's adapter development solution.

ANSWER/AXIS ACQUIRED
Finmatica (Brescia, Italy), an Internet security products provider, acquired Italy-based Answer/Axis Group, which specializes in the development of software and solutions for the insurance sector.

EPOLICY, ACE PARTNER
ACE USA (Philadelphia) signed an agreement with EPolicy.com (Torrance, CA) to offer new lines of specialty professional liability insurance. EPolicy plans to use proprietary technology for the application and policy-writing processes.

STP DEAL
Provider of straight-through processing solutions, SolutionForge (Essex, UK) has partnered with Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, WA) to provide straight-through processing solutions. Under the agreement, SolutionForge's FIX product suite, FIX.NET, will run on Microsoft's .NET platform. FIX.Net allows data to be transferred using financial information exchange protocals.

ONLINEBENEFITS PACT
OnlineBenefits (Uniondale, NY), a Web-based employee communications and administration solutions provider, formed an alliance with Marsh Advantage America. The companies will offer a co-branded product, Benergy, a Net-based employee benefits communications solution.

STANDARD/M FIN'L DEAL
Standard Insurance Co. (Portland, OR) and M Financial Group (Portland) entered into a marketing and distribution agreement. Standard will align with M Financial Group's distribution channel to market Standard Insurance's products and benefits.

RENEWED PARTNERSHIP
Claims solutions provider ProcessClaims (Redondo Beach, CA) announced that California Casualty Management Co. (San Francisco) has renewed and expanded its partnership agreement with the company.

INSURANCE.COM PARTERS
Insurance.com (Newton, MA), a Fidelity Investments company, has announced a series of online marketing agreements with America Online, Bloom-berg, Bankrate, Yahoo, Multex and Learning Network Family Education. Users of the partner sites will have access to Insurance.com's insurance quotes.