Softshare's Blue-Ribbon ACORD Solution
As the recipient of the ACORD 2004 Early Soap Framework Adopter award, Softshare has earned bragging rights for our ACORD solutions. Since 2001, we've kept our clients ahead of the curve when complying with ACORD's data standards for the insurance, reinsurance, and related financial service industries.
Our ACORD solutions consist of Softshare Delta, our data translator, and Softshare ECS, our communications server. Using these components, you have everything you need to create, send and receive, and translate ACORD documents, both JV XML and EDIFACT, as well as ACORD XML messaging service operations.
Softshare Delta
Softshare Delta is Softshare's data translator. It supports translation between EDIFACT and XML (the two major business document formats required for ACORD compliance) as well as translation from these formats to flat file, database, and text formats—and vice-versa.
ACORD Transaction Standards
Our clients have used Delta to model and map ACORD's various transaction types:
- RETACC
- RESETT
- REBORD
- RECLAM
- JV XML (2001, 2003, and 2004 versions)
ACORD XML Messaging Service Operations
Our clients have used Delta to model and map ACORD's various XML messaging service operations:
- PostRq
- PostRs
- StatusInRq
- StatusInRs
- CallRq
- CallRs
Per ACORD's specifications, these message types are found within the body of the SOAP framework and, depending on the message type, can carry EDI, XML, or other types of business documents as attachments. Delta's Web services features make it possible for you to wrap the SOAP framework around your outgoing ACORD messages and attachments as part of the translation process—or peel the SOAP framework away from incoming messages and attachments before translating them.
Softshare ECS
Softshare ECS is a server-based communications application that works closely with Softshare Delta. It supports HTTP, the communications protocol most commonly used with the SOAP framework and ACORD's transport protocol of choice. ECS also supports the security protocols (HTTP trading partner authentication and TLS/SSL secure transmission) that ACORD recommends.
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