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Time to embrace consumer facing
technology -
Manitoba Insurance Broker, December 2011
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"Over the
last year there have been some promising
projects and initiatives that focus on
improving the efficiencies in the broker
distribution model...."
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IBAO applauds new technology allowing
PDF Dec pages to be downloaded as part
of CSIO standards -
CIP Society Advantage Daily, November
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"The
Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario
(IBAO) has publicly recognized the
recent introduction by Custom Software
Solutions Inc. (CSSI) of new technology...."
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Custom Software Solutions Inc. -
The CSIO Standard, October 2011 |
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"Custom
Software Solutions Inc. (CSSI)
has had a busy 3rd quarter of 2011 with
a number of projects underway that
include the recent integration
announcements for New Business Upload
with The Dominion and
JEVCO using CSIO XML
4.3...."
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Broker-controlled link to customer
critical to warding off competition -
Insurancewest, September 2011 |
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"There is an
online business transition to a
full-serve, self-serve customer
environment happening across the broker
landscape. Direct writers and banks are
aggressively pushing forward and
expanding their platforms to link with
clients online..."
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Functionality
Fundamentals -
Canadian Insurance, February 2011
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"While
researching various broker management
systems (BMS) and talking to vendors and
end users, a common theme emerged - a
BMS, just like any other technology,
relies on the knowledge and ability of
the end user..."
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Article courtesy of
Canadian Insurance
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BMS Breakdown -
Canadian Insurance, February 2011 |
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"At the
heart of every brokerage is the broker
management system (BMS), and these days,
advances in technology allow it to do
more than just collect client data and
track correspondence..."
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Article courtesy of
Canadian Insurance
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Full-Serve, Self-Serve
- Canadian Underwriter, February 2011 |
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"In the future, online broker
services need to be offered in a
full-serve, self-serve environment, in a
system that brokers own and control.
Over the past few years, people have
been talking about the need for brokers
to embrace the "new" social media.
Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are
rapidly growing services, and we will
find..."
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Scott Andrew
on Technology -
The Manitoba Broker, December 2010 |
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"IBAM's
Chair and Immediate Past President Scott
Andrew is not only a well-known
insurance broker. He is also CEO of
Moston House Ltd. Group of Companies, a
business entity that oversees the family
brokerage (Andrew Agencies), insurance
industry software provider Custom
Software Solutions Inc. (CSSI), and
high-speed data and voice provider RFNow
Inc...."
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Premium
financing arrangement inked -
Insurancewest, September 2010 |
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"The only
fully integrated broker management
system on the market has expanded its
service reach once again. In July,
Custom Software Solutions Inc. (CSSI) of
Virden, Man., established a connectivity
agreement with the nation's largest
privately held premium financing
organization..."
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CSSI to help
with Peace Hills' cyber plan -
Insurancewest, May 2010
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"Though the
market crunch over the last few years
has hit Peace Hills Insurance fairly
hard, president and CEO Diane Brickner
is continuing her support of strategies
that would improve the company's
technology..."
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Andrew
Agencies backs the right SKELETON -
The Manitoba
Broker, March 2010
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"In late
2008, Andrew Agencies' management team
was discussing plans for a Grand
Opening/Customer appreciation event for
their newly acquired location in Russell..."
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IBAM
Insurance Brokers Association of
Manitoba - Manitoba
Business Excellence, September 2009
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"As it faces many
business challenges, it is quite
intentional that powerful trade
association IBAM (Insurance Brokers
Association of Manitoba) has this year
elected a vibrant entrepreneur as its
2009 - 2010 President..."
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TBW achieves
total integration -
Insurancewest, September 2009
"With the most
recent commercial product releases from
Custom Software Solutions Inc. (CSSI),
The Broker's Workstation (TBW) has
become the only fully integrated
management system available to insurance
brokers in Canada..."
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New IBAM
President Scott Andrew -
The Manitoba Broker, June 2009
"Virden's Scott
Andrew wears many hats over the course
of a business day... and he recently
added another. At IBAM's AGM on April
30, Scott was elected President of the
Association for 2009-2010...
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I.T.
Investment in an Economic Downturn
- Canadian Underwriter, February
2009
"A seized economy
is causing brokers and I.T. vendors
alike to re-examine what it would take
for brokers to go ahead and revamp their
I.T. systems..."
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Living Policy
Change - Canadian
Underwriter, October 2008
"In order for a
broker to manage a risk today and in the
future, 100% of the information
initially collected to underwrite the
risk needs to be retained by the broker
for future use..."
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Beyond the
Portal - Canadian
Insurance, April 2006
"Necessity is
indeed the mother of invention. Just ask
Scott Andrew, president and managing
partner of Andrew Agencies Ltd..."
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Another Fork
in the Road - Canadian
Insurance, February 2006
"It was
announced in mid-December that the CSIO
portal will be wound down. The project
died in much the same way as it carried
on during the six years that the p&c
industry tired to breathe life into it -
amidst controversy and great debate...."
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Prairie
dynasty spreads its wings -
Insurancewest, January 2005
"Few Canadian
families are able to trace their
ancestry to Scotland's windblown Isle of
Skye in the mid-19th century. The Andrew
family of southern Saskatchewan and
Manitoba can..."
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Local company
receives $1.25 million investment
- Virden Empire Advance,
March 27, 2004
(article by Sam Thompson)
"Virden-based
Custom Software Solutions, Inc. (CSSI)
is certainly getting noticed. The
company... announced last week that it
had obtained a $1.25 million investment
from ENSIS Growth Fund..."
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Small town
business attracts major investment
- Virden Empire Advance,
May 24, 2003
(article and photograph by Sam Thompson)
"Interest in a
Virden-based insurance industry project
has already led to national funding, and
could lead to more jobs and industry
growth for the town in the near
future..."
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