Mercator Upgrades E-Business Integration Broker Products

Mercator Software recently announced new capabilities within its Mercator E-Business Integration Broker products that enable dramatic reductions in the time, cost and effort to integrate ACORD XML transactions with existing insurance applications.

With new e-business data transformation support incorporating Acord XML, customers will be able to accelerate the adoption of XML for business-to-business exchange of insurance transactions, forms and documents. Combined with existing Mercator support for Acord AL3 standards for EDI, these new capabilities allow customers to deploy a single software architecture for integration of both XML and EDI transactions based on Acord standards without creating programs, regardless of application complexity.

Mercator E-Business Integration Broker products capture the complete semantic descriptions of Acord standards transactions in graphical form, including importing of Acord data type definitions, thereby allowing 100% transformation to any other format through a drag-and-drop interface, without writing programs or coding user exits. As a result, the time and cost savings to create and maintain interfaces using Mercator integration software that incorporates Acord standards are substantial.