Re: Insurance software (again)
In article <6jju2s$fs4$1@news.xmission.com>, Sebastian Paul Avarvarei <proteus@romus.com> writes > >Hi everyone! > >Sorry to distub you again, but I still can't find a good insurance >application based on Informix. I'll give you more backround >informations, hoping it will help. > >I work for a computer company in Romania, an owned subsidiary >of an Texas company (I don't give names so you won't accuse me >for doing free advertising :-) > >As ICL-Fujitsu Partners and members of Microsoft Developers >Network we deliver a range of solutions (mostly for manufacturing >and retail), based on UNIX, Novell, Windows NT, Informix, MAX, >TeamWARE, Sandmar etc. > >Recently we were contacted by an insurance company from Moldova >who wants to implement a computerized system. I'll outline below >a few points about them and their needs: > >Types of insurance: all major types (life, casualty, property, green card >etc.) >Insurance contracts in 1997: aprox. ten thousand and they expect a >substantial growth in 1998 and 1999. >Structure of company: one central site, five regional offices and aprox. 40. >local offices. >Communications: the phone lines in that country are not very good at this >time, so a permanent on-line connection it's not a very safe solution (we >expect this situation to change in 1 or 2 years). >Our suggestion: all the primary data will be stored in the local offices' >workstations and transmitted for processing to the central office during >the night. >Hardware platform: One Fujitsu server (C class or higher probably), Value >Plus and Ergo Pro workstations. ICL servers are crap, I know we have several of them where I work. Get a Sun Ultrasparc box, they are so much faster..2 CPU is what we normally use. >Preferred OS: Windows NT server (UNIX not excluded) / Windows 95 clients. Solaris.. NT is crap, I know our customers have it crash a lot and it's slow..and it doesn't scale well.. >Preferred database: Informix on server / Microsoft Access on clients (other >solutions not excluded) > Informix on server yes, not sure about the client, Delphi(?). >Our client would prefer an out-of-the box system which will do all the >insurance related operations: policy input, claims processing, risk >calculations, >data transmission from and to the remote local offices and everything else >an insurance company needs. >Or a turn-key solution for the back-end, since the remote front-end application >can be easily developed by us. > >I hope this mail gave you an idea about what we need. We will appreciate >any suggestions about products and companies which could help us. > Informix/Sun. Dec alpha are also good, HP are good but expensive.. > >Thank you very much > >Sebastian Paul Avarvarei, >E-mail: proteus@romus.com > > >------------------------------------------------------ >I love blue sky, > But I hate blue screen ! >------------------------------------------------------- -- David Williams Maintainer of the Informix FAQ Primary site (Beta Version) http://www.smooth1.demon.co.uk Official site http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html I see you standin', Standin' on your own, It's such a lonely place for you, For you to be If you need a shoulder, Or if you need a friend, I'll be here standing, Until the bitter end... So don't chastise me Or think I, I mean you harm... All I ever wanted Was for you To know that I care