News Release

25-September 2001

InsureTech Named “Best Solution by a Partner” Finalist and “Best Use of XML” Finalist in Microsoft’s MEC Awards 2001 Program

Award winners to be Announced October 1^st in Orlando, Florida

Lakeland, XXX, 2001 — InsureTech, an insurance and financial services agency / software developer since 1984, announced that the company has been named a “ Best Solution by a Partner” Finalist and “Best use of XML” Finalist at MEC 2001, the essential infrastructure planning and deployment conference in Orlando, Fla. The MEC 2001 Awards Program is based upon an innovative Microsoft Exchange 2000 solution the company developed for the insurance and financial services industry.  Finalists were chosen for their exciting products and solutions in 10 categories.  Winners will be announced October 1, 2001 in Orlando, Florida.

Best Use of XML:  This category is awarded to a solution, product, or service that positively impacted strategic business processes and extends the value of Exchange 2000 by the innovative and creative use of XML in and with Exchange 2000 to solve real business problems.

Insuretech earned this prominent recognition by delivering a Microsoft Exchange 2000-based solution for insurance and financial service companies.  The program is designed to facilitate collaboration and improve communications between departments and teams, enhance team productivity, and leverage existing corporate knowledge on all levels of the organization. The solution integrates workspace-oriented solutions for insurance and financial service organizations into a common environment via the Internet.

              “We are extremely pleased to receive this recognition for our pioneering efforts in Exchange 2000 application development,” said William H. Wakeman III, CFP™, CEO and president of InsureTech.  “We have made a significant investment in the development of both technology and expertise to enable faster, more efficient use of Exchange 2000 and SharePoint Portal Server features.  Insuretech’s solutions will be instrumental in enabling companies to realize the full benefit of Microsoft’s advanced web-based collaborative technologies.”  Award finalists will be honored and the winners in each of the award categories will be announced at the MEC 2001 conference  on September 30, 2001 in Orlando, Florida.

About InsureTech

InsureTech, which began its business in 1984, as an insurance and financial services agency / software developer is credited with having created the business operating systems for the American Professionals Alliance (a trade association), Wakeman & Costine’s North American Bed & Breakfast Directory (www.bbdirectory.com) and DataLister (www.datalister.com) a national provider of workers compensation policyholder information. 

InsureTech plans to market InsureTech Pizzazz!™ to the insurance and financial services industry by leveraging new technologies and standards that provide a complete customer relationship management  / knowledge management solution through the Internet.