Prima Solutions Announces First North American Client

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) October 6, 2005

Prima Solutions, provider of Prima Platform™, the Foundation for Service Oriented Insurance Applications, announced today that Western Computer Services, Inc, a provider of IT services to eighteen Farm Bureau insurance organizations has chosen its flagship software, Prima Platform and started to implement new service oriented insurance applications leveraging its IT legacy assets.

Prima Platform™ will stand as the core foundation between a portal-based web presentation layer and heterogeneous back-end services to deliver an agent automation package providing full quote, policy,underwriting and cashiering functionality tailored to meet the individual needs of each Farm Bureau Insurance

Organizations.

Harold Williams, Vice President of Western Computer, said, “Easy access for Farm Bureau agents is one of our highest priorities. The Prima reference insurance model, rules engine, and repository of business objects and processes will allow us to rapidly develop service oriented insurance applications that automate key agent transactions and processes.”

By implementing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to integrate and streamline core insurance processes,Western Computer Services will bring new complex applications to market much faster and be more responsive to the needs of internal users and the clients they service.

“We are delighted to have been chosen to provide Western Computer Services with next generation applications for agent automation,” said Brad Rossa, Executive Vice President, Prima Solutions. “As a charter customer, they are a progressive company that did a thorough evaluation of the product to understand the importance of an industrial approach to Service Oriented Architecture transformation in delivering premium service to their customers.”

About Prima Solutions

Prima Solutions provides a standards-based software foundation to design, develop, deploy, manage, monitor and maintain Service Oriented Insurance Applications. Built around an extensive insurance reference model and service repository, Prima Platform™ supports rules-based business process automation and their real-time integration with legacy systems. Prima Platform enables insurance organizations to improve enterprise agility and business results, and to incrementally transform and extend their legacy systems. Prima Solutions is a member of ACORD.

Additional information can be found on http://www.prima-solutions.com

About Western Computer Services

Western Computer Services Inc., based in Sandy, Utah, is a wholly owned subsidiary of three Farm Bureau companies and is managed by FBL Financial Group, Inc. Western Computer provides complete insurance solutions for multi- line insurers across 20 states through multiple processing centers.

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