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Home:Company:Press Releases :November 08, 2007 DataDirect XQuery Eases Standards Compliance for the Insurance IndustryXQuery.com Features ACORD Use-Case Examples for IT Professionals in the Insurance, Reinsurance and Related Financial Services Fields BEDFORD, Mass. – November 8, 2007 Who:DataDirect Technologies (www.datadirect.com), a leader in data connectivity and mainframe integration and an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), has posted examples of how XQuery, the W3C standard and XML query language and DataDirect XQuery®, an XQuery processor can be used by organizations to meet insurance industry standards set by the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD ). What:ACORD insurance data standards are used by more than 1,000 insurance and financial services institutions and more than 15,000 agencies, brokers and solutions providers. The ACORD XML standards for Life and Annuity are defined through a set of extensive XML Schema requiring companies to create and interpret messages defined according to those XML Schemas. The DataDirect® code example walks through TXLife (Life Business Message Specification) and XMLife (Life Data Model Specification). Other relevant topics covered include:
Where:Software developers and compliance professionals responsible for ensuring ACORD standards are met, can visit www.xquery.com/ACORD to download, install and run the code examples. About DataDirect TechnologiesDataDirect Technologies is the software industry’s only comprehensive provider of software for connecting the world’s most critical business applications to data and services, running on any platform, using proven and emerging standards. Developers worldwide depend on DataDirect® products to connect their applications to an unparalleled range of data sources using standards-based interfaces such as ODBC, JDBC™ and ADO.NET, XQuery and SOAP. More than 300 leading independent software vendors and thousands of enterprises rely on DataDirect Technologies to simplify and streamline data connectivity for distributed systems and to reduce the complexity of mainframe integration. DataDirect Technologies is an operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS). For more information, visit www.datadirect.com. DataDirect and DataDirect XQuery are registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Java and all Java based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
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