Software & Services That Enable the Integration of Disparate Systems Using Common XML Standards

ACORD TOOLS FOR REINSURANCE

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    Reinsurance ACORD Tools
    XCS eiConsole for Reinsurance vs General Integration Tools

    Use this chart to see how your integration solution stacks up to the award-winning XCS eiConsole for Insurance

    XCS eiConsole Non-Insurance Specific Tools (NIT) Impact
    Ability to read in ACORD PCS and ACORD RLC XSD and their associated metadata files with a few mouse clicks Unable to read ACORD MetaData file eliminating critical documentation necessary to map fields to the ACORD schema. Thousands of hours
    Ability to import XML representations of file formats such as SAP IDoc, AL3, EDIFACT, and Excel spreadsheets and flat file including associated documentation Unable to read spreadsheets or documentation requiring manual re-keying of information. Thousands of hours
    Provides templates for all of the ACORD PCS and ACORD RLC transactions (eliminating having to review implementation guides and custom defining transactions) With Non-Insurance Specific Tools you would have to leave the development environment to use other tools, and then once the appropriate matching field is found, manually input the data. Thousands of hours
    Provides the ability to import Source or Target XML formats as templates in the data mapping component making transformations to the desired XML format a simple “drag & drop” exercise. Limited or no templates are available. Thousands of hours
    Support for mapping recursive elements (for example, multiple Parties differentiated by Role) eliminates the confusing and error prone process of drawing connecting lines with ambiguous annotations. Not available. The XSLT has to be manually created. Thousands of hours
    All of the Codelists (P&C) are automatically imported and mapped with “drag and drop” simplicity using an intuitive Tabular Mapper saving thousands of hours NIT only allows one-to-one relationships between the source and target data, which is usually accomplished by connecting lines. The ACORD model requires repeating elements such as Party, which is defined by Role Code. Thousands of hours (in some cases this has caused the
    project to fail)
    An integrated schema maintenance component includes standards-compliant schema maintenance features to allow users to manage internal canonical models and derivations, and extensions of insurance industry standards and upgrades to new releases of Standards. Not available. Thousands of hours
    Support from insurance industry experts. Usually not available. Hundreds of hours
    Includes a fully functional file specification editor that directly imports and transforms non-XML files such as SAP IDoc, AL3, EDIFACT, and Excel to and from an XML representation. Usually not available. Hundreds of hours
    General Capabilities    
    Infrastructure agnostic - Platform, operating
    system, database, communication protocol and
    application server independent.    		 Often infrastructure dependent. Depends on infra-structure
    Ability to import into Data Mapper any source and target formats. For example: XSD, XML, VSAM, DDL, ACORD and AL3. Usually limited.Not available. Hundreds of hours
    Ability to manage (find, filter, sort) all of the interfaces Not available. Hundreds/thousands of hours