{"id":7005,"date":"2010-07-07T08:04:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T22:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=7005"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:11:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T21:11:05","slug":"tower-technology-first-accelerate-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2010\/07\/07\/tower-technology-first-accelerate-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"TOWER Technology First &#8211; Accelerate Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOWER Australia and IRESS Market Technology have announced the launch of Accelerate Connect,\u00a0a straight through link between research and application technology.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Described as an Australian first, TOWER Australia head of distribution, <strong>Patrick O&#8217;Connor<\/strong>, said Accelerate Connect technology allows advisers to launch the TOWER electronic application system from IRESS&#8217;s Xplan Risk Researcher screen, with client and cover details automatically passing through from one system to the other:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;What makes this different is that advisers do not need to separately log on to TOWER Australia&#8217;s Accelerated Online platform, before proceeding with the life insurance application,&#8221; said Mr O&#8217;Connor.<\/p>\n<p>Mr O&#8217;Connor added that TOWER becomes the only insurer in the market to provide a straight through link from the comparator to the application process without having to log on again and re-key data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Louie Dimovski<\/strong>, Head of IRESS Research Services says that the partnering with TOWER Australia on this development set a new benchmark for the industry:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this new facility, the industry moves ahead and the consumer will ultimately benefit,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOWER Australia and IRESS Market Technology have announced the launch of Accelerate Connect,\u00a0a straight through link between research and application technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}