Terrace Software News Blips http://www.terrace.com/rss Terrace will provide news the general public en-us Copyright 2010 Terrace Software, Inc. Todd P. Ziesing Sherry Koyoma mirabyte Feed Writer Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:23:04 -0700 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:49:13 -0800 August 2010 - Company - Terrace contributes work for Alemany Farm ! http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml Terrace Gives Back ! August 2, 2010. A healthy gathering of Terrace Staff joined in an afternoon of work to support a local San Francisco urban farm - Alemany Farms (http://www.alemanyfarm.org). The Terrace team worked on planting and weeding a variety of areas of the farm including the herbal garden, the hillside carrot patch and some local fruit trees. Work included weeding, fertilization, irrigation and planting. Additionally, the Terrace team worked to dig a new hillside pathway to enable greater access to hillside fruit trees. The Terrace team included staff members, family and clients ! Thanks to everyone.

]]> Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:01:33 -0700 July 2010 - Software Products - Terrace and Compu-Quote announce integration partnership http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml Compu-Quote Inc. (Compu-Quote) and Terrace Software (Terrace) are pleased to announce that a data integration service between Compu-Quote’s comparative rating software and Terrace’s agency management system (ABS) is now available. 

Compu-Quote’s AutoRater™ and PropertyRater™ applications are the most widely used rating solutions in Canada. The data integration permits brokers to rapidly transfer underwriting, rating and customer information between ABS and Compu-Quote software without impacting the broker’s normal workflow.

Terrace ABS is targeted to the large retail agencies, wholesale brokers and managing general agencies with a core product that is customized individually to meet the agency’s needs. Specialty commercial lines, life and health are key areas of strength with ABS. Enterprise organizations require simple, powerful and connected software which is easy to deploy and maintain and by using advanced technologies Terrace ABS solves that need.

“Our customers are always seeking improved ways to rate, quote and bind business. Working with Compu-Quote expands these capabilities for our Canadian customers,” states Todd Ziesing, CEO Terrace Software Inc. “Compu-Quote provides Terrace customers with fast, simple real time integration capabilities across a variety of insurers and products. I am excited about how this will benefit our customers in the short and long term.”

“We are pleased to work with Terrace to offer this service for the benefit of our mutual clients,” says James Nickelo, Senior Vice President, Sales & Business Development at Compu-Quote. “Our focus is to provide tools to the broker community that enhance their day to day workflow. The data integration with Terrace’s ABS adds efficiency for the broker and enriches the experience when using our rating service with ABS.”  

Find more information on Compu-Quote at www.compu-quote.com

]]> Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:40:55 -0700 June 2010 - Software Products - Terrace and Artizan announce integration partnership for on-line customer service http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml Terrace Software and Artizan Internet Services, LLC are pleased to announce a formalized partnership to integrate Terrace ABS and Artizan CSR24 and cerTRAX software.  Artizan's on-line offerings will provide Terrace customers’ expanded capabilities in the areas of on-line servicing.  Artizan's industry leading CSR24 and cerTRAX offerings will compliment Terrace's ABS management system by offering easy to use, secure and scalable on-line capabilities for policy servicing.  Both companys are excited to begin work on this new integration.  Find more information on Artizan at http://www.artizan.com. ]]> Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:20:12 -0700 May 2010 - Software Products - Terrace announces new feature release for ABS 3.0 customers - Certificates Center http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml Terrace has announced a new capability for the current release of Terrace ABS - the Certificates Center.  This new Certificates Center steamlines the usability of the creation, production and management of insurance certificates.  The new Certificates Center simplifies the steps involved to create one quick certificate, large batches of certificates as well as the management of holders and evidence.  This new feature has been operating in production at a beta client for the last three months.  Terrace will roll out this new feature to existing ABS 3.0 customers as a point release over the next few months.]]> Wed, 12 May 2010 13:18:15 -0700 May 2010 - Software Products - Terrace and Brovada Announce Partnership for Real-Time Access http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml Brovada Technologies and Terrace Software are pleased to announce a formalized partnership that will see the respective connectivity solution (NexCenter) and agency management system (ABS) integrated with one another.  NexCenter will provide Terrace customers’ access to the leading broker to insurer connectivity solution in Canada. The versatility of the NexCenter product and its community based design allow agents and brokers to rapidly build shareable scripts that provide unlimited connectivity in Canada and in the U.S. NexCenter is the brand that represents the recent grouping of Brovada’s broker products Nexisys, Nexpedite, NexIntegration and NexQuote.  Find more information on Brovada at http://www.brovada.com. ]]> Mon, 03 May 2010 08:15:29 -0700 April 2010 - Consulting Services - Regional Carrier Goes Live with Straight Through Processing for Agencies http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml CIG has gone live with the latest update to their Internet presence for CIG insurance agencies. This latest release supports a fully automated straight through processing (STP) of insurance applications from submission through underwriting and binding. The STP is configurable with a business rules editor allowing administrators and underwriters to change STP rules without programming. Additional enhancements in this release include real time interfaces to Nexis (CLUE and MVR) as well as WYSIWYG policy declarations. Terrace assisted in the design and development of this new release. CIG: http://www.ciginsurance.com Terrace: http://www.terrace.com/custom.htm]]> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:22:23 -0700 March 2010 - Software Products - Terrace ABS 3.1 Release Date Announced http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml Terrace has announced that the latest version of ABS will be generally available in the fourth quarter 2010. This new version has significant new enhancements in the areas of 1) premium accounting, 2) multi-company sub-ledgers, 3) policy servicing, 3) coverage data, and 4) e-mail/task/note/document multi-filing. The software was feature complete in March 2010 with an early beta install at a live client in May 2010.  http://www.terrace.com/abs.htm]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:36:27 -0700 March 2010 - Consulting Services - Microsoft AZURE Proof of Concept Completed for Primarq http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml Terrace completes prototype Microsoft AZURE application for Primarq. Terrace and Primarq staff worked together over the last two months to design and develop the foundation for Primarq's new cloud based exchange for investing in owner-occupied real estate. This is the first release of a series of new offerings based on new Microsoft AZURE cloud based platform. Primarq: http://www.primarq.com  Microsoft Azure:  http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/]]> Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:48:24 -0700 February 2010 – Software Products – Terrace ABS 3.0 – International – Goes Live in Canada http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml Terrace has announced that our ABS version 3.0 is now live in Canada.  This latest release of Terrace ABS supports internationalized features including 1) ISO currencies, 2) international addresses and 3) international dates/phones.  Our Canadian release provides support for CSIO including CSIO forms and CSIO data downloads.   Additionally, our Canadian release provides support for bi-directional rating integration for Compu-Quote.  Please contact Terrace for more information (mailto: ask.us@terrace.com).  Terrace ABS:  http://www.terrace.com/abs.htm  Compu-Quote Rating: http://www.compu-quote.com/eng/index.asp]]> Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:36:12 -0700 February 2010 - Company - Microsoft renews Terrace's Certified Gold Partnership. http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml Microsoft has selected Terrace again as a leading member of their Gold Certified Partner Program.  Terrace's focus continues to be 1) Custom Software Development, 2) Vertical Software Products and 3) Business Technology consulting.  Terrace has been a member of the Microsoft partner program since 1994.  https://partner.microsoft.com
]]> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:53:47 -0700 January 2010 - Consulting Services - National Commercial Real Estate Reporting Site Enhanced in January http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml Kingsley Associates BOMA Reporting site goes live with 2010 Experience Exchange Report Survey. Survey data collection has been enhanced to reduce data collection time, improve data quality, and provide a more user friendly experience. Terrace developed this new capability for Kingsley Associates / BOMA. BOMA: http://www.boma.org  Kingsley:  http://www.kingsleyassociates.com/]]> Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:45:18 -0700 January 2010 - Consulting Services - National Wine Merchant Launches e-Gift Cards http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml K&L Wine Merchants Launches e-Gift Cards on their e-commerce site. K&L Wine Merchants launched a new gift card feature where customers can purchase either email, print at home, or plastic mailed gift cards online at http://www.klwines.com. The buy path is streamlined specifically for gift card purchases. Terrace developed this new capability for K&L Wines.  http://www.klwines.com]]> Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:25:02 -0700 January 2010 - Company News - Terrace Names Insurance Standards Liason http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml Terrace has created a new position to enhance our insurance software product development activities.  This new Insurance Standards Liason will be the primary contact point for Terrace and the growing number of Insurance Standards organizations.  The goal of this new position is to ensure that all future Insurance software development work at Terrace aligns to the most current Insurance Industry Standards.  Terrace has named Mr. Mark Bigonger (tel: 415-848-7320, e-mail: mailto: markb@terrace.com) to lead this work.

Mark will be working closely with ACORD (http://www.acord.com), AUGIE (http://www.acord.org/communities/augie), IVANS (http://www.ivans.com), CSIO (http://www.csio.com), and GET REALTIME (http://www.getrealtime.org).  His work will span 1) Carrier Interface, 2) Rating, 3) Standard FORMS and 4) Straight Through Processing.  

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Terrace submitted Terrace ABS to Microsoft as part of Microsoft's Windows 7 compatibility center.  Terrace has run ABS on Windows 7 and has certified it for this new operating system.  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7

]]> Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:59:15 -0700 November 2009 - Consulting Services - Regional Carrier Goes Live with TransactNow Personal Auto Integration http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml CIG  rolls out TransActNow imports from AMS Services for Personal Lines Auto.  CIG now has the ability to receive new business via web service call(s) from all AMS systems into CIG’s web application, for auto policies.  Terrace developed this integration capability for CIG.  This new capability will dramatically reduce the need for agents to re-enter information for the quote & application process.  CIG:  http://www.ciginsurance.com/  Terrace:  http://www.terrace.com/custom.htm]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:21:42 -0700 September 2009 - Software Products - Terrace ABS & CIM are Windows / SQL 2008 Ready http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml Terrace ABS and CIM Software is Windows Server 2008 / SQL Server 2008 Ready. Terrace joined the Microsoft FrontRunner program for Windows Server and SQL server 2008 certification. Terrace ABS is offered (and running in production) on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 supporting both 32 bit and 64 bit native operation.  http://www.terrace.com/software.htm]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:00:44 -0700 August 2009 - Software Products - Terrace CIM now a vendor solution on GetRealTime.Org http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml Terrace's Carrier Interface Manager (CIM) is now included as a vendor technology solution on GetRealTime.org. Terrace CIM provides a fast, easy to use tool for Carriers and Agencies to exchange insurance interface files (AL3, ACORD XML, Other) for policy data, claims data and accounting data.  http://www.getrealtime.org/active/vendordownload.asp]]> Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:24:51 -0700 July 2009 - Software Products - Terrace announces availability of version 1.5 of CIM http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml A new version of Terrace CIM (Carrier Interface) is being released by Terrace in July of 2009.  This new, updated version includes a new licensing model, expanded Line Of Business schema support, enhanced administration console and improved documentation.  Terrace CIM is used to process interface information between carriers and agencies.  Agencies use CIM to receive and process interface data and Carriers use CIM to generate interface data.  http://www.terrace.com/cim.htm

]]> Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:30:02 -0700 March 2009 - Software Products - Terrace ABS 3.0 - Goes Live in U.S. - 150+ Users http://www.terrace.com/rss/company_news.xml Terrace ABS version 3.0 is live in the U.S.  Terrace's newest release of our advanced management software for insurance agencies, wholesale brokers and MGA's went live with our first installation.  The new software has been totally redesigned from the ground up to streamline training, improve user productivity and standardize extensibility interfaces.  Our first client migrated to Terrace ABS 3.0 with 150+ users for 1) Personal Lines, 2) Commercial Lines, and 3) Life & Health.  Terrace will be migrating all Terrace 2.x clients over the next 24 months to this new platform.  Please contact Terrace Software, Inc. for more information.

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