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New platform disrupts the enterprise insurance market

London, UK, Friday 6th June 2008 ^ Top

Comrange, the specialists in online financial applications is raising the technology bar for enterprise level insurers and brokers with their new 100% web based suite of products. The outcome is that Comrange are helping Insurers write more business faster.

At a time when Insurers are severely constrained by the limitations and inflexibility of their software, Comrange offers a highly innovative software platform that can rapidly produce and implement eco-systems, aggregator and quotation engines and rating engines. Comrange can deliver this significantly quicker than current industry benchmarks – generally 10 times faster .And if you want to add new product lines or customise business rules or make amendments it all happens instantaneously- in real time.

‘Products built on our platform reduces the IT complexity and inefficiencies around business essentials like handling schemes or automating customer interaction management, significantly reducing both the time to market and the time to revenue – we offer huge ROI benefits - Justin Boyce Cam CEO Comrange

Acclaimed cutting edge technology underpins the Comrange product range bringing real innovation and opportunity around the scalability and flexibility of the product systems to support even the most diverse business models.

Colin Pauley ,COO of Comrange explains that, ‘our insurance and broker products have impressive API integration capabilities, not just with existing internal applications like policy life cycle tools but also with sophisticated 3rd party systems like Microsoft Dynamics CRM, or when plugging into existing eco-systems through XML’.

Financial companies are already enjoying not just the business advantages but also the practical benefits of getting to market faster. Intuitive user interfaces and automated workflow processes put the business user in control and make the system easy to manage by non technical staff.

Comrange’s Insurance and Broker products also offer a wide range of rich features and functionality such as real time management information and reporting and an insurer test area. A full portfolio of complimentary services is also available.

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Comrange attends BIBA Conference 2008

London, UK, Wednesday 30th April 2008 ^ Top

This week Comrange once again participated in the BIBA Conference 2008 held in Glasgow. The event, which typically attracts up to 3000 delegates, is recognised as the UK insurance industry’s greatest event of the year. The event was a great success with the end of show keynote coming from Bob Geldof.

Comrange were in attendance to showcase their latest financial application ‘Rating engine’. The excitement grew as Comrange were introduced to many of Europe’s largest financial institutions, giving them a demonstration of their market leading rating engine software.

To read more about the event click here

Industry Analyst Phil Wainwright talks to Comrange

London, UK, Tuesday 15th April 2008 ^ Top

Today Comrange were lucky enough to be granted an interview with Phil Wainwright. Phil Wainewright is an influential commentator and strategist on emerging software industry trends. He first spotted the significance of on-demand software services in 1998, when he set up ASPnews.com, which rapidly became a standard-bearer for the nascent industry. He sold ASPnews in January 2000 and went on to found Loosely Coupled, a specialist website covering enterprise adoption of web services and business process automation. He recently completed a series of analyst reports for Summit Strategies on current trends in software-as-services.

After been given a full demonstation of the AppProducer platform Phil said;

“Microsoft shops that need rapid, flexible development of business applications should take a look at Comrange.”

To read more about Phil’s views read his blog

Bike Animal Launches

London, UK, Friday 21st March 2008 ^ Top

This week saw the launch party of the Bike Animal Online Insurance Aggregator. The party was held at The Sports Bar in Manchester and Comrange were proud to be in attendance to help the biker website unveil their new offering.

Bike Animal is a website that aims to encompass all aspects of motorcycling. It includes the latest news from the industry, up to date race reports, news from the leading championships and road safety advice for motorcyclists. In addition, the website includes useful information relating to insurance, motorcycle accidents, legal support and rider training.

Bike Animal approached Comrange as they wanted to enhance their Insurance brand by adding an insurance aggregator to their website whilst maintaining competitive advantage through the technology. The aggregator will be going live in April, and will be capable of searching the market to bring back the best quote for you.

To visit the Bike Animal site click here

David Bradshaw, Principal Analyst at Ovum reviews the Comrange Platform AppProducer

London, UK, Thursday 21st February 2008 ^ Top

David Bradshaw is principle analyst in Ovum's software group. His specialisation is customer relationship management, but he also works on the licensing and pricing of software and software business models. He is a frequent commentator on the software industry in Ovum's EuroView Daily Bulletin and Holway Hotnews services.

David was given a demonstration of Comrange's .NET Platform, he had this to say;

"I was very impressed by what you showed me and my view is that you are really on to something here. The promise of drastically reducing development costs while increasing the quality of the end result is very attractive indeed."

David is the first of a long line of analysts that are keen to review the revolutionary platform, as it is dramatically changing the way in which business can react to their software application needs.

Comrange converts offline time management software into to an online SaaS system

London, UK, Tuesday 22nd January 2008 ^ Top

Comrange have helped Tempora make the transition from traditional software sales to SaaS by providing a truly interactive and modern web presence with a full eco-system powered by Comrange. Tempora supplies project costing solutions to many different industries, that allows you to control and regulate all transactions related to a project.

The Tempora solution comprises a main public website and the underlying functionality to provide access to the Tempora Application. All system functionality is transparent to the end user, and procedures are designed to be as straightforward as possible. Sign up, login, version options, invoicing, integration with Salesforce, and a complete CMS were made available by AppProducer.

By using AppProducer, Tempora are fully set for the future because if Tempora need to add Software functionality to the Tempora system they can do so in time and easily by using the Comrange platform.

Comrange speak out at global software conference

London, UK, Thursday 17th January 2008 ^ Top

Last month Comrange were privileged enough to be picked to present their developer platform at the 2nd annual SIIA On Demand Conference in California, USA. Comrange were chosen as a finalist, beating hundreds of other SaaS companies to show how they are making an impact within the market with their business model and technology.

SIIA OnDemand is the industry's only comprehensive conference for enabling and delivering Software as a Service. Justin Boyce Cam, CEO, gave a presentation on the benefits of the AppProducer Platform to ISVs, platform vendors, systems integrators, venture capitalists and other bankers, analysts, press and other influencers.

Comrange’s participation was very well received leading to many opportunities for new business. Comrange have been invited to attend the SIIA conference when it returns to Europe in June next year.

To read more about the event click here

Comrange AppProducer helps Smartfundit.com process $400million and to launch in the USA

London, UK, Wednesday 12th December 2007 ^ Top

This month Comrange were in the USA to see Smartfundit.com, a Comrange customer launch their services into the American market. Smartfundit.com created the world’s first on-demand funding marketplace, built using the Comrange AppProducer platform, enabling software-as-a-service vendors to offer customer finance solutions as part of the package. Launching in the US was the next logical step for Smartfundit.com, after so much success in the UK. The unique ability of the Comrange AppProducer platform meant that the Smartfundit solution was ready to launch, in the fraction of the time that other existing system suppliers could offer.

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Comrange announce their participation at Software 2007, Santa Clara, USA

London, UK, Monday 12th November 2007 ^ Top

Comrange have today announced their participation at Software 2007 - the largest vendor-neutral gathering of industry leaders within the software industry. This key event takes place in Santa Clara, California 8-9 May, 2007 when 2000 of the most influential decision-makers will gather for the fourth annual gathering of the entire software ecosystem.

Software 2007 is a global meeting point for software experts charting the course of history over the next decade. The two-day conference incorporates an exhibition, discussions covering products, processes, technologies and business models and the opportunity to network with CEOs, VPs, VCs and CIOs. Some of the highlights of the two days will be industry-leading keynotes from Steve Ballmer of Microsoft and Marc Benioff from salesforce.com.

Comrange are proud to be contributing to the International Pavilion at the conference. The Software 2007 International Pavilion will showcase the best and brightest new software and services solutions from countries around the globe that show true innovation within their sectors. Justin Boyce Cam, CEO, shall be attending for Comrange, giving product demonstrations and answering any questions that you may have about their innovative solutions.

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Merco goes live

London, UK, Monday 5th November 2007 ^ Top

Comrange client Merco have now launched their new medical recruitment portal, built on Comrange AppProducer.

Merco Online is a new solution that allows hospitals and surgeries to find and recruit the right staff through great online functionality. The solution was built comparatively double quick time using Comrange's rapid application development platform AppProducer and will enable Merco to expand their system with full flexibility in the future.

Comrange announces affiliation with BT and involvement in ‘best of breed’ BT Applications Market Place

London, Friday 24th August 2007 ^ Top

Comrange are proud to announce today their participation within BT’s Application Marketplace scheme. As a Microsoft ISV SaaS partner, Comrange were asked by BT to showcase themselves and their products on BT’s new portal that delivers applications to on-demand subscribers.

What is BT Applications Marketplace?

BT Applications Marketplace gives independent software vendors (ISVs) a quick and effective way to distribute applications to a fast growing audience of on-demand subscribers. Joining also lets companies interact and exchange with their peers.

BT has over 500,000 SME broadband customers, customers who are increasingly interested in adopting software-as-a-service: BT Applications Marketplace is a great way for SME customers to get the applications they are looking for, quickly and easily, and in the knowledge that the applications they are buying are reliable and fully tested.

Comrange were privileged to be asked with a select group of ISVs to be part of the launch campaign on 25th April as BT and Microsoft see Comrange’s solutions as best of breed and ‘very impressive’. From today you can see Comrange’s profile on the BT marketplace by going to http://comrange.bttradespace.com/.

“At BT, we’re focused on extending the breadth and reach of our service portfolio to ensure we are catering for the needs of our end customers. Our vision is to aggregate SaaS-enabled ISV applications with our own existing services to create compelling new offers that we jointly take to market.”
Bill Murphy, MD, BT Business

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Comrange announce their certification in the Microsoft Partner Program

London, Wednesday 8th August 2007 ^ Top

Today Comrange received their Microsoft certification. The partnership is part of a Microsoft initiative to gather companies that have made an impact in the technology marketplace and are pioneering the use of Microsoft technology to deliver business benefit. Microsoft is the industry’s largest investor in research and development and only support the best and most innovative companies.

Microsoft certified partners need to demonstrate a high degree of competence and expertise with Microsoft technology. As a certified partner, Comrange will have access to a rich set of resources to help them further build revenue, sales momentum and prominence.

“Microsoft and Comrange are both innovative companies with a commitment to constant research and development in order to deliver outstanding technical solutions to business problems. With common ideologies based on business excellence, Microsoft is the natural partner for Comrange to go to market,” says Justin Boyce Cam, CEO, Comrange.

Karl Noakes, Director of the Partner Development Group at Microsoft, said: “When customers are looking to implement a Microsoft technology solution for their business, their best bet is to turn to an expert - a Microsoft Certified Partner. Microsoft provides its Certified Partners with in-depth access to existing and emerging Microsoft technologies and related training and resources to help ensure that they have the technical intimacy needed to deliver quality solutions. Today, Microsoft recognizes Comrange for demonstrating this level of expertise and welcomes it as a new Microsoft Certified Partner.”

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Justin Boyce Cam talks at SIIA On-Demand Europe 2007, Amsterdam

London, UK, Tuesday 31st July 2007 ^ Top

Today Comrange received their Microsoft certification. The partnership is part of a Microsoft initiative to gather companies that have made an impact in the technology marketplace and are pioneering the SIIA On-Demand Europe is the European software industry's first comprehensive conference for enabling and delivering Software as a Service. Delegates represent the complete SaaS ecosystem, including ISVs, platform vendors, systems integrators, venture capitalists and other influencers.

Comrange’s Founder and CEO, Justin Boyce Cam, will be taking part in the Channel Strategies panel, discussing how leading SaaS (Software as a Service) vendors and leading SaaS partners successfully leverage each other. This is Europe's first event that focuses solely on the enablement and deliverance of SaaS.

To reads more about the event, visit http://www.siia.net/OnDemandEurope/2007/speakers.asp

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Comrange announce their participation at Software 2007, Santa Clara, USA

London, UK, Thursday 12th April 2007 ^ Top

Comrange have today announced their participation at Software 2007 - the largest vendor-neutral gathering of industry leaders within the software industry. This key event takes place in Santa Clara, California 8-9 May, 2007 when 2000 of the most influential decision-makers will gather for the fourth annual gathering of the entire software ecosystem.

Software 2007 is a global meeting point for software experts charting the course of history over the next decade. The two-day conference incorporates an exhibition, discussions covering products, processes, technologies and business models and the opportunity to network with CEOs, VPs, VCs and CIOs. Some of the highlights of the two days will be industry-leading keynotes from Steve Ballmer of Microsoft and Marc Benioff from salesforce.com.

Comrange are proud to be contributing to the International Pavilion at the conference. The Software 2007 International Pavilion will showcase the best and brightest new software and services solutions from countries around the globe that show true innovation within their sectors. Justin Boyce Cam, CEO, shall be attending for Comrange, giving product demonstrations and answering any questions that you may have about their innovative solutions.

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Comrange’s application development platform, AppProducer creates a breakthrough for creating sophisticated web based applications

Santa Clara, California, Tuesday 8th May ^ Top

The absence of an integrated, easy-to-use development platform has been a major barrier to companies developing web-based business applications. Until now, companies have had little choice but to use specialists to build custom applications from scratch. Invariably, this is a lengthy and error-prone process.

Now there is a new alternative from Comrange that offers a rapid, flexible and reliable means of creating sophisticated and powerful web-based applications. Comrange’s new application development platform AppProducer represents a breakthrough by:

  • Being built on Microsoft .NET
  • Automating many time-consuming processes involved in application building
  • Providing an easy-to-use environment for building a comprehensive suite of integrated web applications
  • Cutting design and development time from days to minutes
  • Enabling reports, tables and frames to be built – or modified - on-the-fly
  • Ensuring consistency and quality-assurance in coding
  • Ensuring the integrity and consistency with changes, new applications and modifications.

Almost any kinds of applications can be built using the platform to meet the needs of organizations in both private and public sectors. These include all of the typical applications that are likely to be included in a business web site such as sales billing, marketing, ecommerce, reporting, surveys and content management applications.

Comrange AppProducer brings real business advantages to their customer base:

  • Extremely cost effectiveness
  • The platform is completely future proof
  • Incomparable time to market

AppProducer is 10 X faster! For a project that would take 300 days in .Net and 241 days in .Net2, AppProducer can deliver in a mere 35 days.

“A highly flexible and responsive solution has been created in order to give us a huge technological advantage over our competitors.”
Alex Stone, Founder, The Bike Insurer

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