Skywire Lands IIT; QAS Gets Help; Lawson, IBM Deal; AgencyPort Taps SkytideNet; Motion and RSA Team Up

Skywire Lands IIT
Skywire Software (Frisco, Texas) acquired Integrated Insurance Technologies (San Francisco) from life insurance brokerage SelectQuote to expand its presence in the life insurance sector.

QAS Gets Help
QAS (Boston), an Experian company and maker of QuickAddress products, will resell helpIT Systems' (San Jose, Calif.) matchIT data deduplication tool to offer clients data hygiene tools that verify and standardize addresses, and identify and process duplicate records.

Lawson, IBM Deal
Lawson Software (St. Paul, Minn.) chose IBM (Armonk, N.Y.) WebSphere as the foundation for its new business applications platform, Project Landmark, which will help insurers move to a J2EE-compliant SOA and an open-standards framework for automating business processes.

AgencyPort Taps Skytide
AgencyPort (Boston), a provider of Web-based property-and-casualty solutions, will include the Skytide (San Mateo, Calif.) Analytical Platform within its AgencyPortal solution, enabling insurers to analyze ACORD XML data.

NetMotion and RSA Team Up
To offer added security to customers accessing sensitive data remotely, NetMotion (Seattle) joined RSA's (Bedford, Mass.) Secured Partner Program to certify interoperability between NetMotion's Mobility XE and RSA's SecurID two-factor authentication solution.