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This site has many papers and articles on Marketing within Financial Services that you can download. Some of the papers are about BPR. There is also a list, with a brief summary, of their research reports that are available for purchase. Abram, Hawkes plc is a UK company based in Haywards Heath, Sussex.

This is the site of B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore, the co-founders of the Mass Customisation concept. Much of the site is devoted to their new follow-on concept, The Experience Economy.

Has very useful lists of key UK business events by date under different categories, e.g. Finance Industty, Mergers & Acquisitions.

A web site dedicated to printing with hundreds of links to online brochures etc..

Andersen Consulting's Eagle Project has produced a set of tools, architectures, processes and patterns, and reusable components, for the development of insurance and banking business solutions. By using object technology it provides fast and reliable software development through prototyping, re-use, flexibility and portability.
Eagle also conforms to the CORBA standard and has also been under development since 1991. Using Eagle, one client has developed an insurance claims application. This site has comprehensive details of the Eagle Architecture.

IBM has been developing the IAA and Direct Insurance Process Models since 1991 in co-operation with major insurance clients including Lincoln International.
IAA uses IBM's Enterprise Object Technology Strategy for implementation. This supports distributed objects, portability and interoperability via the CORBA and other standards. It includes application development and management tools, an object repository, and an object database with persistency capability. IBM provides common class libraries (components) for the insurance industry, along with consultancy, training & education, and expert support services.

CORBA-Insurance

CORBA-Insurance is a sub-group within the CORBA financial group which is part of the OMG (Object Management Group) (CORBA = Common Object Request Broker). The OMG is a consortium of vendors and users who aim to develop architectures and standards to support object inter-operability.
CORBA's insurance architecture facilitates linkages across the insurance Value Chain by means of defining Common Business Objects (CBOs) and how they inter-relate. CBOs are business functions that are common across a vertical market (e.g. motor quotations) or industry as a whole (e.g. purchasing).
Businesses within the chain then build their systems by purchasing objects from different vendors and by developing their own objects. CORBA compliant software allows business suppliers and distributors to link their computer systems across a network, including the Internet.
IBM, Andersen Consulting, Continuum and Aetna are key members.