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Connective Technologies, Inc. Announces TEAM-UP Agency Interface Solution Contracts with Arbella Insurance Group
[September 05, 2007]

Connective Technologies, Inc. Announces TEAM-UP Agency Interface Solution Contracts with Arbella Insurance Group


HOUSTON --(Business Wire)-- Connective Technologies announces their contract signing with Arbella Insurance Group ("Arbella") for licensing and implementing TEAM-UP Download(TM) and Data Translation Solutions. These applications provide once-and-done processing in an industry compliant, data-secure environment for agency downloads. With an improved data translation process and environment, both applications are easy to use and maintain.



Chris Steward, CIO and VP of IS at Arbella comments, "Broadening our agency services by providing an industry-leading platform like TEAM-UP demonstrates our commitment to our independent agencies in making it easier to do business with Arbella. With TEAM-UP's latest generation of providing carrier-direct download transmissions over the Internet and its enhanced data translation services, we're excited about providing this streamlined solution to our partner agents."

Dic Marxen, CEO of Connective Technologies adds, "We welcome Arbella to our fast growing client base in the Northeast, as well as across the country. Our commitment to continuing to improve our agency interface solutions with best-of-breed J2EE compliant technology, functionality, streamlined processing, and ease-of-use is a top priority of ours."


TEAM-UP Download is an Internet-secure offering being leveraged by more than 35 P&C carriers in providing accessibility to over 20,000 communicating agency pairs using more than 40 different agency management systems throughout every region in the United States. Now in its third major release, the product has matured to ensure agencies have a seamless migration from other download processes. The improved self-reliant features such as single-policy, real-time archival retrievals by the agents, improved group management distribution and tracking features that ease and accelerate the registration process for both agencies and carriers, have been implemented with TEAM-UP's Service Oriented Architecture.

About Arbella Insurance Group:

Headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts, the Arbella Insurance Group is a customer-focused regional group of five property and casualty insurance carriers. Arbella provides a full array of personal and business insurance products in Massachusetts. Arbella also offers personal insurance in Connecticut and business insurance in Rhode Island. Established in 1988, Arbella has a reputation for exceptional service built upon a foundation of financial strength, with more than $650 million of annual written premium and more than $1 billion in assets.

About Connective Technologies, Inc.:

Connective Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of e-Commerce business solutions for the property and casualty insurance industry, specializing in Internet interface solutions for carriers and their agents. Connective has used its many years of experience with leading agency management systems and traditional batch EDI to pioneer the approach, which has helped it become the leading provider of bridging and Internet-based interface solutions in the industry. Connective provides implementation services for its flagship products, TEAM-UP Upload, Download, and Data Translation Solutions, as well as Site Development and Web Services. To learn more about Connective products and services, contact Dic Marxen at (817) 377-0815, by email at: [email protected], or visit our website at www.connectivetech.com.

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