POMPANO BEACH, Fla., Oct. 13, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Leading technology solutions provider, Blue Frog Solutions, has won a prestigious Innovator Award from Windows in Financial Services for its Affirm(tm) for Annuities product.
Blue Frog is one of 10 companies -- five financial firms and five vendors -- that are being recognized for finding innovative ways to harness the strength, flexibility and reliability of Microsoft technology. All of the companies honored have embraced Microsoft technologies while applying their own creative approaches to further their growth, build on their successes and empower their employees to better serve their customer base.
Affirm(tm) is a compliance and order management system designed to integrate a carrier's complex product rules with a distributor's compliance processing to generate annuity & life insurance transactions that are "in good order." Affirm(tm), based on Blue Frog's proprietary ADMServer Framework, a cross-functional software development platform designed to manage data for annuity & life insurance services, is standards-based and uses the ACORD XMLife model.
"Blue Frog Solutions is particularly proud to be a recipient of a Windows in Financial Services Innovator Award," notes Brad Levine, Blue Frog's CEO. "This award clearly demonstrates our company's commitment to the Microsoft platform as well as our commitment to managing the changing regulatory compliance requirements of the annuities industry with our open, standards-based architecture."
Other Windows in Financial Services Innovator Award honorees include Citigroup, NASDAQ, Wachovia, Great American Financial Resources, Inc., First American Title Insurance Co.
Blue Frog Solutions, (www.bluefrogsolutions.com), based in Pompano Beach, Florida, is a leading technology solutions provider and business processing outsourcing (BPO) firm that focuses on the life, annuities and long-term care market. Blue Frog automates both front and back end business processes between carriers and distributors with a focus on compliance to create automated business process efficiencies. Blue Frog's solutions are based on the firm's flagship ADMServer Framework software suite. As one of the largest providers of ACORD-based transactions and DTCC solutions, Blue Frog currently provides ADMServer solutions to more than 60 percent of the top 40 life and annuity companies and many of the largest distributors in the U.S.
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