As an insurance professional, you're responsible for choosing the best agency management solution for your organization. Until now, that's meant choosing between simple front-end systems that don't cut it for agency automation, or expensive, complex, high-end systems. Your people will love AIM. And so will you. KEEP YOU IN TOUCH WITH YOUR AGENCY. Since AIM consolidates information from across your agency, you can receive up-to-date production forecasts and reports automatically, so you're always informed. Built-in reports on everything from account status to production analysis and more can be easily customized so you can view information your way. TURN SUBMISSIONS INTO POLICIES. New submissions can be automatically distributed in your agency for follow up and processing. AIM tracks submissions through your agency, so you always know the status. AIM's underwriting processes can automate time-consuming tasks such as sending follow-up letters, requesting additional information requests or quoting multiple versions of a submission, so your personnel can focus on spending more time servicing the customer. GET STARTED RIGHT AWAY. GET RESULTS IMMEDIATELY. Traditional agency management systems typically require months to get up and running. But with AIM, powerful agency automation can be yours in a matter of weeks. You can even roll out just the tools that will benefit your workforce right away - and make changes and add more capabilities as you go. For IS Professionals... AIM combines powerful client-server technologies with centralized administration tools to give you the power you need to easily customize, implement and maintain your agency automation solution. You can get up and running quickly and easily create and distribute changes on the fly. You get a robust agency automation solution, without the headaches. CLIENT/SERVER RELATIONAL DATABASE SUPPORT AIM is designed to support an entire organization -- from an individual remote user, workgroups on networks, to an enterprise working on multiple servers. This offers you the opportunity to start now without making an "enterprise-wide" decision, but maintains a growth path to a true enterprise scale application. The powerful synchronization, security and system administration features are capable of managing installations of hundreds of users. AIM supports Microsoft SQL Server - the leading SQL Client/Server relational database. The product supports high performance direct connections to Client/Server databases, not ODBC. For companies that don't have existing SQL database servers, such as those mentioned above, AIM can provide assistance in implementing a client-server database that runs effectively and can be implemented quickly. RICH AND RAPID CUSTOMIZATION AND CONTROL CIS's custom development services lets you easily and quickly craft a customized solution for your business. Add multiple custom screens to the AIM database. REMOTE OFFICE/USER SUPPORT One of the most critical technical issue in automation today is to share data between host systems and remote users, which allows remote offices and laptop users to share data. With Client/Server technology AIM is specifically designed to support hundreds of remote users and meet the unique needs of the insurance marketplace. INTEGRATION WITH CORPORATE DATA AND OTHER APPLICATIONS Existing corporate data such as financial or customer service information can be integrated into the AIM system using the open application programming interface (API). Complementary applications can also be integrated using and OLE 2.0 integration. FULLY MICROSOFT COMPATIBLE AIM is committed to supporting Microsoft operating system and database platforms. All AIM products are modern “32 – bit” applications running under Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000, Windows NT, and XP. AIM is a Microsoft® BackOffice® Compatible application which uses the Microsoft SQL Server® relational database.