Chicago, IL
September 29th, 2004 ? Adeptia Inc., an innovative provider of business process integration technologies, today announced successful deployment of its business process management (BPM) product at Meadowbrook Insurance Group, a leader of Alternative Risk Solutions.Meadowbrook has selected Adeptia as the technology for its enterprise-wide integration strategy.
Deployment of Adeptia business process integration server allows Meadowbrook to easily and quickly setup automated data exchange with its business partners - without the need to develop and deploy custom data integration interfaces that often require extensive manual data entry."We are impressed by Adeptia's ability to implement complex integrations with external partners in an easy and effective manner.
We are happy about our decision to deploy Adeptia, which is a perfect solution to address our needs.
Adeptia's solution enables reuse of existing interfaces in future integrations and offers an easy way to manage and change business rules quickly in these interfaces." ? said Chris Spring, CIO of Meadowbrook.Adeptia's product has facilitated automatic data transformation and error handling for Meadowbrook.
As an immediate return, Meadowbrook has benefited from more efficient back office operations."We are thrilled that Meadowbrook chose Adeptia's technology.
We will ensure their needs are met and expectations exceeded. This is another validation of the power and effectiveness of Adeptia's product. Our objective is to help our clients' meet their business objectives"?said Lou Ennuso, CEO of Adeptia.
ACORD standards based Adeptia Business Process Integration technology seamlessly integrates disparate insurance applications. Adeptia's adaptable business rules can handle ever-changing market demands and regulatory requirements, and provide an opportunity for businesses to be more proactive and efficient.
"Adeptia allows customers to collaboratively create, deploy and automate business processes. Adeptia's product has been designed to resolve simple to complex integration problems ? in an easy, effective manner."? said Deepak Singh, CTO of Adeptia.About Meadowbrook Insurance GroupA leader in the alternative risk market, Meadowbrook is a program-based risk management company, specializing in alternative risk management solutions for agents, brokers, and insureds of all sizes.
Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "MIG".For further information, please visit Meadowbrook's corporate web site at www.meadowbrook.com About Adeptia, Inc. Adeptia is an enterprise software company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, that provides business process integration technology to easily and quickly automate business processes across supply chains using industry-specific standards.
Adeptia's unique product combines business process management with business-to-business integration. Adeptia's reusable and highly scalable technology has been deployed by Fortune 1000 companies. For more information, visit http://www.adeptia.comContact InformationRob WalterAdeptia, Inc.(312) 442-4426e-mail protected from spam bots.
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Copyright 2006 Donovan Baldwin
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