Aia Software partners with TCP Lifesystems and announces first sale

London, July, 2009 - Aia Software, a leading author and developer of intelligent document composition software today announced it had signed a Letter of Intent with TCP Lifesystems. The partnership will see Aia’s ITP Document Platform integrated with the TCP’s Copernicus SS/G modular suite of software. Together they will bring more effective document composition solutions to the life, health and pensions insurance industry. The partnership has already yielded its first success with a leading insurance company currently implementing the ITP Document Platform.

Copernicus SS/G is a customer centric solution that allows insurance companies to select best of breed components for their business, allowing them to take control and react rapidly to market change by configuring the products accordingly.  By integrating the ITP Document Platform into SS/G, TCP’s ‘Self Serve’ Generation system, customers benefit from faster implementations and access to a predefined set of templates thus saving time and effort.  Customers also get access to the full functionality of a specialist document composition solution that has been designed to be managed by the business user and controlled by the IT department.

Christoffel Klimbie, Sales Director, Aia Software said, “TCP has an excellent reputation in the market for developing solutions that use the latest internet technology.  This partnership will enable their customers to take advantage of ITP’s advanced document composition functionality which empowers business users to take greater control of their documents using the familiar Microsoft Word environment to edit and adapt templates and documents.  This is an exciting opportunity and I am looking forward to a mutually prosperous working relationship.”

“We wanted to add document generation  to our range of offerings in the life, health and pensions insurance industry.  There is a good fit between our respective platforms from a technology perspective as ITP also puts business users in control and allows them to self-serve, a key feature of SS/G.  We recognised the benefits of partnering with a specialist in this area rather than trying to develop our own system”, commented Matthew Clark, Managing Director, TCP Lifesystems, “The ITP platform is now our preferred solution for document composition which allows us to concentrate on developing our core product.”

Klimbie concluded, “An added benefit of working with TCP is that, like us they are a Microsoft Gold Certified partner.  This ensured the integration between the two systems was completed in a matter of days allowing each company to focus on raising awareness and generating sales opportunities which is the key ingredient in making any partnership work.”

About Aia Software

Aia Software is a leading global producer and provider of document and forms solutions. The ITP Document Platform enables business users to compose high quality, personalized, business-critical documents. Over 850 organizations worldwide already use ITP as an integrated solution to automate the production of standard documents in high volume, compose sophisticated individual correspondence from pre-defined paragraphs, or to dynamically complete Web forms. ITP can be quickly and seamlessly integrated with customers' existing application and technical platforms. Aia Software has branch offices in North America, the UK, The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Australia.
http://www.aia-itp.com

About TCP Lifesystems

TCP LifeSystems, a software house founded 20 years ago,  is dedicated to the life, health and pensions (LHP) insurance industry.  Covering the complete life cycle of LHP processing from Quotes/New Business through policy servicing to claims, TCP's solutions have been built to maximise the business opportunities for its clients.  Copernicus SS/G is TCP's latest component architected 'Self-Serve' solution which takes advantage of the latest web technology and allows Best of Breed solutions to be implemented.  The 'Self-Serve' enablement enhances the customer experience and significantly reduces administrative cost.  TCP's solutions have been implemented in many of the leading UK and European insurance companies.
http://www.tcplifesystems.com