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Aia Software and Achmea Group sign Strategic Agreement

Achmea Group IT Services Chooses Aia Software's ITP for online correspondence within Achmea.

Nijmegen, October 12th 2006 - Achmea Group IT Services, the ICT division of the financial services company Achmea, has signed a strategic agreement with Aia Software, distributor of the correspondence and document platform ITP. In addition to the substantial 800 ITP user-base currently within Achmea, ITP/OnLine Server will now be available to some 5000 Achmea employees for the production of fully automated standard documents as well as for interactive correspondence composed using predefined text building-blocks. All online browser-based correspondence within Achmea will now be generated using ITP.

From left to right: Paul Dirven, CEO Aia Software, Christoffel Klimbie, Senior Account Manager Aia Software, Marcel Kooij, Manager Media Output Achmea and Hans Dickerscheid, Advisor Dadolog Data

"After an evaluation of all of the correspondence tools within Achmea, ITP came out on top", says Marcel Kooij of Achmea Group IT Services Media Output Department. "ITP is a state-of-the-art scalable document solution, very user-friendly and very easy to support. We are going to start using the pre-defined text blocks more and more to benefit from the ease of use and speed of document creation with the right content. This is a necessity for a finacial services company where documents often have a complex content."

Christoffel Klimbie, Senior Account Manager with Aia Software: "We are delighted that Achmea has made the strategic choice to realise enterprise-wide benefit from our document solution. ITP is a very powerful solution, which can be quickly and simply integrated into the technology architecture of larger organizations. Because the new ITP solution is browser-based, Achmea will be able to rapidly expand its user-base from the current level of 800."

About Achmea:

Achmea is one of the larger financial services companies in the Benelux. Achmea offers companies, organizations and consumers a broad variety of insurance, banking and mortgage products and services. Achmea also provides pension administration health care services, labour conditions in the workplace (arbo), managing absenteeism and the re-integration of employees. All products and services that improve a healthy lifestyle. Achmea operates under the following brands: Centraal Beheer Achmea, Zilveren Kruis Achmea, Interpolis, Avèro Achmea, FBTO, Staal Bankiers