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Every intermediary, especially multi-office brokers, want the ability to operate a single software and business solution across the entire enterprise. Easily, inexpensively, quickly.
agencyPlus is the only comprehensive solution available to UK intermediaries that uses Smart-Client architecture. It is also the only solution available that fully integrates all aspects of a brokers business into the application. For the avoidance of doubt, all UK broker software other than agencyPlus use older technology that pass on business process restrictions which will reduces the ability for a large intermediary to be competitive.
The simple to maintain Windows SQL server can sit anywhere, on or off your main network, while the server securely holds your business data and becomes the business controller and administration centre.
This section is where we get a little technical. There is a reason why smart-client is the best-proven architecture for high-performance in a multi-office environment. It offers the greatest flexibility and power.With all the talk across the industry of ASP vs Web vs local server, it’s easy to be confused.
Smart client transcends these older platforms, as it offers all the benefits of these older solutions combined, but without the restrictions. agencyPlus is the only smart client broker business solution, and is 100% built with .Net and SQL, using a single database.
The agencyPlus™ SQL server is configured with the logic and ability to contain the processing for not only one brokerage, but for multiple brokerages who may each have multiple branches, operating multiple independent departments including nominal divisions. You just need some workstations and an internet connection to build a global operation.
Here’s where it starts to get clever; agencyPlus™ installs a special application on each workstation which holds all the user screens and graphics, as well as Microsoft Outlook and Word. The only data that flows between the server and workstation client are the letters and numerals on the screen, so only a tiny amount of internet bandwidth is required (we said this would be technical).
There’s absolutely no typing lag like in terminal services because you’re typing into the actual workstation, not operating a remote client, nor are the bandwidth-heavy screen images coming from the server. There are no delays when going from page to page, like in web-browser based applications. When you’re using Microsoft Word, it’s at full speed because it’s there running in front of you.
Notching clever up to really smart, the agencyPlus™ server then does something else that is unique to this architecture, and something that all other platforms dream about.
During each morning on startup, invisible to the user, the server updates each operating workstation with a cache of relevant business information that means for numerous actions, for example searching, the workstation can operate independently. This makes using this broker solution lightning fast across a vast multi-office group. The workstation client then intelligently keeps refreshing any changes to the cache during the day when it thinks things on the network are quiet. Smart Client.
Insurecom recognizes that every intermediary is different, and that there is no such thing as ‘one size fits all’ in the broker community. That why Insurecom invested millions of pounds into building the structure for a wide range of additional business process tools. Each of these tools or services seamlessly link into agencyPlus, and provide broker automation on a scale that is an industry first.
Your data, on your server, with your rules. Using encrypted data streaming and operating via a special security shield, the agencyPlus server will automatically broadcast to any number of interfaces that you personally authorise.
One of these interfaces can be a website page, giving you full and seamless e-business capability where you can transact business 24/7. A further interface can be a secure client access portal, where your customer can log-in and check policy information. Another interface could be an enterprise-grade comprehensive scanning and paperless document management solution.
Each workstation client, and therefore employee, becomes yet another secure interface to your server no matter where they are. Deployment of users is incredibly swift and easy, and like ASP or Web browser based legacy applications only a network link is necessary, although with agencyPlus the data is automatically encrypted.
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