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Recent press releases include:
 Microsoft Launches London Market Network
Sequel Business Solutions, Moore Stephens, CIBER, Finsbury Solutions, K2, Autonomy Meridio, and Microsoft join forces to meet the business and technology requirements of the London Market
28 February 2008: Microsoft today announced that it, along with six highly specialised technology
partners, is launching the London Market Network, a group of companies formed to combine their
expertise to offer the London Insurance Market a ‘one-stop-shop’ designed to meet their technology
requirements.
In the UK, this is the first time a group of technology providers in the insurance space have joined
forces with the specific intention of meeting the business and technology needs of the London
Market. Microsoft formed the group in recognition of the fact that companies within the London
Market are often solving the same problems with similar approaches and using very similar
technology toolsets. The London Market Network aims to provide companies with market leading
solutions, pre-integrated which will help reduce the development cost, risk and time of
implementation.
The specialist partners within the London Market Network are:
Sequel Business Solutions (Broking, Underwriting and Annual Accounting Solutions)
Moore Stephens (Business Performance Management)
CIBER (MS-CRM, SharePoint and K2 workflow deployment)
Finsbury Solutions (Spreadsheet Management)
K2 (Workflow and Business Process Solutions)
Autonomy Meridio (Records Management)
Microsoft (Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005, SharePoint Server 2007)
When a company is looking to renew a certain element of its IT infrastructure, the London Market
Network offers companies the best and pre-integrated solutions available. For example, a project
might require a new underwriting solution with collaboration and workflow infrastructure in which
case Sequel Business Solutions would deploy its Eclipse underwriting solution in conjunction with
CIBER who would integrate Microsoft SharePoint and K2 to Eclipse.
Once the SharePoint and workflow (K2) infrastructure is in place then it becomes easier to integrate
business intelligence (Moore Stephens), records management (Autonomy Meridio) or spreadsheet
management and compliance (Finsbury) solutions, however this is not a prerequisite.
The uniting factor for all the companies in the London Market Network is their compatibility with
Microsoft’s products. All the solutions are built on the Microsoft stack: (.NET, Windows Server 2003,
SQL Server 2005) and integrate to or are built on SharePoint Server 2007.
Bruce McKee, Insurance Business Development Manager, Microsoft UK said: "All the partners in the
group have been selected because of their ability to solve a business issue or problem that exists in
the London Market, they have solved this problem before and have customers that can endorse this,
they have a solid reputation and as business partners that they have the right cultural fit."
Mike Thomas, Head of Strategic Change at Brit Insurance said: "One of the biggest challenges we
faced was integrating a set of disparate IT solutions into a seamless experience for the users. Using
some of the solutions offered by the London Market Network, we can now collaborate more
effectively internally and with our business partners, and better manage our information flows and
controls. The partners involved have worked together effectively to develop a suite of solutions that
will be flexible in supporting the future needs of our business."
Notes to Editors
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that
help people and businesses realize their full potential.
About Sequel Business Solutions
Formed in 1993, Sequel (www.sequel.com) originally delivered consultancy, development and support services to
London Market insurance and reinsurance organisations that required either bespoke software developments or
had decided to take development and support of purchased, package software in-house.
During 2001, we revised this model to undertake the development of Eclipse, a strategic suite of business
applications built with 100% Microsoft technology that share a common business and technical architecture.
Sequel has developed three software solutions - Broking, Underwriting and Annual Accounting - designed to
enable easy access to information and simple application integration. We have continued the development of
these applications, so that our customers are able to leverage significant benefits from the changes taking place
within our market.
Press Release
Sequel’s Business:
Sequel is a specialist supplier of software and services to the insurance and reinsurance industry
Our target market has traditionally been the Lloyd’s and London insurance and reinsurance sector
Our products and solutions have been positioned to operate in other markets and geographies that share attributes and have similar requirements to London.
For more information visit: www.sequel.com
About Finsbury Solutions
Spreadsheet Workbench from Finsbury Solutions is a leading spreadsheet management and compliance solution.
It helps financial organisations address the issues of risk, audit, version control and compliance that are inherent
with the use of business critical spreadsheet applications. Formed in 2005 Finsbury Solutions is based in London
and New York.
For more information contact: www.finsburysolutions.com
About K2
K2 provides the platform for a new generation of users to collaboratively assemble dynamic business applications
from reusable items. K2-based solutions are deployed by a growing number of the global Fortune 100, and since
the release of its first software in 2000, K2 has helped clients in more than 40 countries increase profitability and
productivity.
K2 is a business unit of SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc., based in Redmond, Washington, and has offices in
Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.
SourceCode and K2 are registered trademarks or trademarks of SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc., in the
United States and/or other countries.
For more information visit www.k2.com
About Meridio
About Autonomy Meridio
Meridio, an Autonomy company (LSE: AU. or AU.L), is a leading provider of complete lifecycle information
management solutions, from creation and retention to disposition. Meridio enables organizations to achieve
global compliance by creating and applying flexible master policies to their electronic records in accordance with
international and local statutes and regulations. Meridio's solutions are certified on major global regulatory
standards, including US DoD 5015.2 Ch 2 (including joint certification with MOSS2007) and Ch 4 - Management of
Classified Records, Australian VERS standard and UK TNA 2002. Meridio is compliant with ISO 15489 and the
European MoReq standard. Customers include BioPAD, ConocoPhillips, CDW, Hipoteku Banka, NZ Ministry of
Fisheries, Pacific Life, StatoilHydro, Scottish and Southern Energy, the UK Ministry of Defence and the US Air
Force.
For more information visit: www.meridio.coms Release
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About Moore Stephens Consulting
Moore Stephens Consulting brings together significant business acumen, extensive insurance experience and
world class technology skills to deliver best - in - class Business Performance Management (BPM) solutions
tailored to the insurance industry. Real time business benefit is provided to organisations through appropriate
and effective use of industry standard technology platforms.
Our bIntelligent for insurance solution suite enables clients to; monitor corporate goals through dashboards and
scorecards, mitigate business risk through KRI/KPI alerts and make decisions faster through predictive analytics
and real time reporting. In addition we provide; Strategic/ financial planning and forecasting, Risk modelling /
assessment and compliance analysis, key data capture systems & data warehouse analysis, bespoke .Net
systems, workflow, and portal delivery solutions. As a result decision makers can better manage, plan,
understand and leverage business performance to improve operational effectiveness.
Our track record speaks for itself, we have consistently delivered world - class solutions for all areas of the
insurance industry including brokers, global general insurers, Lloyd's syndicates, and re-insurers.
Moore Stephens Consulting is a wholly owned subsidiary of Moore Stephens LLP, which in turn is a member of
Moore Stephens International, one of the world’s leading accounting and consulting networks. Founded in 1907,
Moore Stephens has over 15,000 partners, principals and staff, located in 539 offices in 93 countries, with annual
revenue income in excess of $1.35b.
For more information visit www.bintelligent.co.uk
About CIBER
CIBER UK is part of an international IT solution provider with over 8000 personnel implementing and supporting
customer solutions across the globe from 90 offices in 18 countries.
Committed to the UK Insurance market, CIBER is working closely with Microsoft to develop and deliver IT
solutions to help companies operating in both the London and the General Insurance Markets.
CIBER is Microsoft’s preferred partner for the Insurance Sector for Dynamics CRM, Office SharePoint Server and
BizTalk Server.
It focuses upon using these key Microsoft technologies to provide customer, broker and partner management,
collaboration and content management and system integration solutions that help insurance businesses enhance
customer service, improve efficiency, and achieve compliance.
CIBER works in partnership with its major customers in the market including Brit Insurance, Hiscox and Endsleigh
Insurance and, as a founder member of the Microsoft London Market Network, is working closely with Microsoft
and its other partners to improve the understanding of how technology can benefit the sector.
For more information visit: www.ciber.com
London Market Network factsheet
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Xchanging Insurance Conference 2007
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Moore Stephens Consulting sets up New York presence
Moore Stephens strikes gold
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Moore Stephens Consulting wins ProClarity’s Partner of the Year award
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Enhanced business intelligence from Moore Stephens Consulting and ProClarity
Moore Stephens Consulting acquires Phoenix Database Technologies' business
Moore Stephens Consulting and IntelligentApps strengthens global business partner relationship
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