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... functional programs that interact with others without compromising quality. Whether employed by an insurance company or independent software vendor, software developers know that by using OLifE, their software creations will do more to help agents market insurance products and service their clients. Craig Badger, senior computer systems analyst for Prudential Insurance Co. of America's Individual Insurance Group, Roseland, NJ, is a charter member of the industry development group that helped bring OLE-based applications to Life. Badger summarized the goal of OLifE in defining his systems department's overall mission: " ... functional programs that interact with others without compromising quality. Whether employed by an insurance company or independent software vendor, software developers know that by using OLifE, their software creations will do more to help agents market insurance products and service their clients. Craig Badger, senior computer systems analyst for Prudential Insurance Co. of America's Individual Insurance Group, Roseland, NJ, is a charter member of the industry development group that helped bring OLE-based applications to Life. Badger summarized the goal of OLifE in defining his systems department's overall mission: " ... /Casualty, no true turnkey agency system vendors exist in the Life industry. Instead, agents or insurance companies use multiple vendors and must pay someone to integrate the packages, or else they must enter the same data over and again. An agent may use several software programs to manage the business: Contact management programs help track prospective customers; fact-finding programs help document information from an initial sales call, such as current insurance and income investments; and needs-analysis programs process these facts to calculate how much Life insurance is needed by a ...

... functional programs that interact with others without compromising quality. Whether employed by an insurance company or independent software vendor, software developers know that by using OLifE, their software creations will do more to help agents market insurance products and service their clients. Craig Badger, senior computer systems analyst for Prudential Insurance Co. of America's Individual Insurance Group, Roseland, NJ, is a charter member of the industry development group that helped bring OLE-based applications to Life. Badger summarized the goal of OLifE in defining his systems department's overall mission: " ... functional programs that interact with others without compromising quality. Whether employed by an insurance company or independent software vendor, software developers know that by using OLifE, their software creations will do more to help agents market insurance products and service their clients. Craig Badger, senior computer systems analyst for Prudential Insurance Co. of America's Individual Insurance Group, Roseland, NJ, is a charter member of the industry development group that helped bring OLE-based applications to Life. Badger summarized the goal of OLifE in defining his systems department's overall mission: " ... /Casualty, no true turnkey agency system vendors exist in the Life industry. Instead, agents or insurance companies use multiple vendors and must pay someone to integrate the packages, or else they must enter the same data over and again. An agent may use several software programs to manage the business: Contact management programs help track prospective customers; fact-finding programs help document information from an initial sales call, such as current insurance and income investments; and needs-analysis programs process these facts to calculate how much Life insurance is needed by a ...

... Etiquette, Part 3 8/31/2018 12:00:00 AM by CompleteMarkets Editor , Jack Fries This content has not been rated yet. SAVE A TREE Sometimes I think that the best thing that could happen would be for someone to take away the computer printer. Why? Because, every time I send an E-mail out to a large group, a third of the group will print the message even before reading it, a third will read it and then print it, and only the last third will simply ... Etiquette, Part 3 8/31/2018 12:00:00 AM by CompleteMarkets Editor , Jack Fries This content has not been rated yet. SAVE A TREE Sometimes I think that the best thing that could happen would be for someone to take away the computer printer. Why? Because, every time I send an E-mail out to a large group, a third of the group will print the message even before reading it, a third will read it and then print it, and only the last third will simply ... The reasons for this obtrusive behavior range from company management wanting to make sure users are not wasting time on frivolous messages to making sure that company secrets are not being leaked to unauthorized sources. But even if your company does not monitor or filter your mail, E-mail software is like all software in that occasionally things go wrong. If this happens, you may end up receiving E-mail meant for another person or your E-mail may get sent to the wrong person. Either way, what you thought was private is not private anymore. ...

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... Categories Popular Recent All Back Planning for Obsolete Media 7/20/2018 12:00:00 AM by CompleteMarkets Editor , steve anderson This content has not been rated yet. While doing some spring-cleaning in my office recently, I found a few boxes of old computer hardware and software. Like many of you who have a closet in your agency where you stuff things that you can't bring yourself to throw out, my boxes are filled with old equipment that once was very important. Many of the items are various types and ... Categories Popular Recent All Back Planning for Obsolete Media 7/20/2018 12:00:00 AM by CompleteMarkets Editor , steve anderson This content has not been rated yet. While doing some spring-cleaning in my office recently, I found a few boxes of old computer hardware and software. Like many of you who have a closet in your agency where you stuff things that you can't bring yourself to throw out, my boxes are filled with old equipment that once was very important. Many of the items are various types and ... of backup devices. That got me thinking about how agencies need to archive information so that it can be retrieved. Let me give you a few examples. I used to use an Iomega Zip drive with 100 MB and 250 MB Zip disks for backup. But I can't pull a file off one of those old disks now. In the last agency I worked for, the original software we used to store our scanned documents was called PageKeeper. This program stored scanned images in a proprietary format that required the program in order ...