Alliances & Partnerships

Vertafore Buys CIS

Vertafore (Windsor, Conn.) acquired Custom Insurance Solutions (San Antonio, Texas) to broaden solutions offered to the managing general agent and wholesale brokerage market. CIS will operate as a separate business unit.

BenefitPoint Adds Applied Systems

BenefitPoint (San Francisco) will offer a Web-services integration of its Aptus CRM solution and Applied Systems' (University Park, Ill.) TAM and Vision agency management systems to exchange data for P&C insurance and employee benefits.

Whitehill Teams With ImageRight

Whitehill Technologies (Moncton, N.B., Canada) teamed with ImageRight (Conyers, Ga.) to combine its Whitehill Transport and Whitehill Transform Suite data translation software with ImageRight's document management offering.

McCamish/AcroSoft

McCamish Systems (Atlanta, Ga.), a provider of administrative solutions, will implement AcroSoft Corp.'s (Columbia, S.C.) Insurance Content Management solution to streamline processes and workflow operations.

Disability RMS Selects InsBridge

Disability RMS (Westbrook, Maine), a provider of disability risk management products and services, will tap InsBridge's (Dallas) RateManager browser-based, multiplatform rating and underwriting solution to develop and distribute rating and underwriting products and services for disability insurance.