Contracts

EDS (Plano, Texas) will create a customized Web-based portal for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' (Boston) 35,000 healthcare providers to provide access to patient claims information 24 hours a day and accelerate the claims process.

Great American Selects Duck Creek

Great American Insurance Group (Cincinnati) selected Duck Creek Technologies' (Bolivar, Mo.) EXAMPLE Platform for the carrier's new policy application and quoting system as part of a larger initiative to replace its legacy infrastructure.

Kingsway Financial Services (Mississauga, Ontario) will license Skywire Software's (Frisco, Texas) INsBridge, a Web-based rating, rules and underwriting system.

The First Insurance Company of Hawaii (Honolulu) selected Automated Benefits (Edmonton) subsidiary Symbility Solutions' (Waterloo, Ontario) mobile claims system to improve the accuracy and speed of claims processing with on-site collection of loss information.

Accident Fund Insurance Company of America (Lansing, Mich.) chose Pacific Edge Software's (Bellevue, Wash.) Pacific Edge Mariner for project and portfolio management. The solution will help supervise IT resource capacity and demand for strategic enterprise projects.

Contracts

Physicians Mutual/FJA-US

Physicians Mutual (Omaha, Neb.) licensed FJA-US' (New York) Product Machine to develop insurance products based on IBM's (Armonk, N.Y.) Insurance Application Architecture model. The resulting solution allows for the efficient and expedient creation and maintenance of product agreements and intermediary agreements while minimizing rework, inaccuracies and overhead.

Praetorian Taps Q.Know

Praetorian Financial Group (New York) will tap Q.Know Technologies (Reston, Va.) information management software -- which files, retrieves, manages and shares information automatically -- to manage the company's electronic information including transactions, submissions and administrative documents.

Preserver Chooses Adeptia

Preserver Group (Newark, N.J.) chose Adeptia's (Chicago) business process management product for Insurance to enhance connectivity with agents, integrate various internal applications, automate workflow, and eliminate manual tasks and the rekeying of data.

Unitrin Complies With OpenPages

Unitrin (Chicago) selected OpenPages (Waltham, Mass.) FCM, a Web-based document management and reporting software, to automate its ongoing testing and review of internal controls to reduce the time and resource costs associated with Section 404 and 302 Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

Mutual of Omaha/iPipeline/Brainshark

Mutual of Omaha (Omaha, Neb.) will utilize the partnership between iPipeline (Exton, Pa.) and Brainshark (Waltham, Mass.) to present distributors with on-demand product knowledge, sales tips and advanced marketing concepts.