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MSDN Industry Center - Insurance

Welcome to the Microsoft MSDN Architecture Center for Insurance. This site is designed to provide both Developers and Architects in the Insurance industry with technical content focused on Microsoft’s Insurance Value Chain industry initiative, as well as links to valuable technical content on the Microsoft platform technologies that enable best-in-class industry partner solutions. You can count on regular updates from Mike Walker, Microsoft’s Financial Services Industry Architect, as well as more content from Microsoft’s customers and partners as we build out the Insurance Value Chain technology strategy. 


Introduction to the Insurance Value Chain Integration FactoryIntroduction to the Insurance Value Chain Integration Factory

This paper describes the Microsoft Insurance Value Chain (IVC) Integration Factory, the partner line-of-business (LOB) applications that already participate in our Partner-to-Partner Integration Framework, and the Microsoft vision and road map for technology evolution and advancement in the insurance industry.

New Business Origination Solution for Commercial Auto InsuranceNew Business Origination Solution for Commercial Auto Insurance

New Business Origination Solutions for Commercial Auto Insurance provides a unique opportunity to bring together related but different skills from INSTEC, Insuresoft, and XDimensional Technologies. The goal is to develop a set of interfaces that enable applications to integrate seamlessly with other applications that have been written to exploit these messaging standards.

New Business Origination for AnnuitiesNew Business Origination for Annuities

The New Business Origination for Annuities provides a unique opportunity to bring together related but different skills from Impact Technologies, Insurance Technologies, and AdminServer. This paper provides information about the developmental implementation options for an Insurance Value Chain (IVC) solution for the life-insurance industry.

IVC Solution for Homeowner Policy RenewalIVC Solution for Homeowner Policy Renewal

The Insurance Value Chain (IVC) Solution for Homeowner Policy Renewal enables straight-through processing between three disparate systems by using Web services. The main goal of this IVC project is to establish a standard proof-of-concept for information exchange.


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Introduction to the Insurance Value Chain Integration Factory
This paper describes the Microsoft Insurance Value Chain (IVC) Integration Factory, the partner line-of-business (LOB) applications that already participate in our Partner-to-Partner Integration Frame... more
IVC Solution for Homeowner Policy Renewal
The Insurance Value Chain (IVC) Solution for Homeowner Policy Renewal enables straight-through processing between three disparate systems by using Web services. The main goal of this IVC project is to... more
New Business Origination for Annuities
The New Business Origination for Annuities provides a unique opportunity to bring together related but different skills from Impact Technologies, Insurance Technologies, and AdminServer. This paper pr... more
New Business Origination Solution for Commercial Auto Insurance
New Business Origination Solution for Commercial Auto Insurance provides a unique opportunity to bring together related but different skills from INSTEC, Insuresoft, and XDimensional Technologies. The... more
Building Interoperable Insurance Systems with .NET 3.0 Technologies
Through maturity of many enterprises, we live in a world where there is more than one stack of technology. As a result, there has been more than a few Band Aids applied to the various technologies. Th... more
Developing Applications Using Windows Authorization Manager
As corporate security and regulatory compliance requirements increase, the need and demand for a simple and common application authorization model grows. Today's application developers and enterprise ... more

Mike Walker on Financial ServicesMike Walker on Financial Services

My name is Mike Walker and I'm an Industry Architect on the Architecture Strategy team. In this community section you'll find the most recent financial services related community activities and resources.


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New Financial Components Released for Insurance and Capital Markets
Claims Processing Reference Architecture Claims Processing Reference Architecture provides quality services in the field of Auto Insurance Claims Pro... more
Updates to the Financial Services Component Library
Hello everyone! More news on the Financial Services Component Library front. I have developed a series of videos that give a solution overview. These... more
Insurance Messaging Framework Available
Last year I mentioned we had an Insurance Messaging Framework that focused specifically on the integration issues in insurance. Well we finally have r... more
Financial Services Component Library Downloads
You may of seen my post announcing the Financial Services OBA Component Library. If you did you were most likely wondering when and where the code was... more

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