| Title: | Insurance Industry Conference |
| Moderator: | ICPSRV::DOVE |
| Created: | Thu Feb 18 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 136 |
| Total number of notes: | 551 |
I am working with the graphics department of a large insurance company who is evaluating software for paper forms design. The objective is to create form that can be printed out on a demand basis or merged with data to produce a final output. Some programs the customer has evaluated include Intran (on Sun), Elixir (PC) and Tyrego (PC). I am looking for something that will run on a DEC platform, or will be compatible with CDA on a PC. A product I have heard about from rumors is Formlink, which is a PC-based product. I am posting this note in the DECforms and Electronic Publishing notes files as well to determine if anyone has worked with this type of product. If you have more details than you wish to discuss in notes, please send mail to MUSKIE::WALSH, and I will contact you directly.
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| 95.1 | A little about Formlink | WOTVAX::FULTON | H.V? Yes Yes! | Tue Apr 03 1990 08:22 | 30 |
I'm not the expert on this, but I do know a little about
Formlink.
Its a product marketed in the UK by Fame Computers Ltd,
which is jointly owned by a number of Insurance companies
including Commercial Union, GA, and Royal. The idea is more
or less as you say, to define by parameters the format and
basic validation rules for a printable or displayable
Insurance form. Fame claims (I have no proof or otherwise)
that they can transmit skeleton and completed forms very
efficiently using their data compression capabilities.
Formlink is actively marketed by Royal as a way of tying in
Insurance brokers. The product is also endorsed (I believe)
by Origo, the UK VAN service set up by a group of Insurers.
it runs on an MS-DOS PC, but I don't know if PCSA has ever
been used with it.
The weaknesses of the product I think are a) the
validation depends entirely on local PC data/rules, and as
often as not, the form requires further validation after
transmission (so not a lot of savings!), and b) the brokers
don't like being dictated to by the big insurers. Fame is
going along as a "representative of Royal" I hear, and that
is not popular.
You may get further details on Formlink and DECForms
from the UK VANS people, who are much more closely involved
with this than I am. Try 774-6057 or 774-6066. Or mail
Richard Cadman / Robert Fisher @ NEW.
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