Re: insurance software

["Manuel Souto Pico" <m.soutopico@gmail.com>]

Hello, 

Like a month ago I posted a question. I'd like to thank you for your replies, I'll send them to my friend so he'll have more information to decide. 

All the same, your replies coincide with what he thought (that it would be difficult to find any free software solution for such a specific business area). 

Doug, I think what he needs is too complex to be worth developing from scratch..

Clive, if he's interested he'll reply to your questions so I'll give you more information. 

Kev, what are monitary bounties?

Cheers! Manuel

On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 02:59:49PM +0100, Manuel Souto Pico wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for some free software for insurance business. A friend of
> mine is going to migrate all his client's data to a new (commercial)
> application, but before he does I'd like to make him consider other
> (free) options, if there are any (which might be unlikely, give that
> this is a rather specific business area).
>
> I'd be very grateful for any information you could provide.

If you can't find a ready-made free solution, you can piece it together:
a database (e.g. postgresql), with a custom front-end in python.

Doug.



On (28/12/06 14:59), Manuel Souto Pico wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for some free software for insurance business. A friend of
> mine is going to migrate all his client's data to a new (commercial)
> application, but before he does I'd like to make him consider other
> (free) options, if there are any (which might be unlikely, give that
> this is a rather specific business area).
>
> I'd be very grateful for any information you could provide.
>
> Thanks a lot and Happy New Year, Manuel

I think you will struggle to find a direct replacement for proprietry
insurance systems but more information might help. Is this life or
general insurance and what does he want to do with the information?

A database or PIM application may do what he wants but it will require
time and effort to learn/develop a solution.

Regards

Clive

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On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 02:59:49PM +0100, Manuel Souto Pico wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for some free software for insurance business. A friend of
> mine is going to migrate all his client's data to a new (commercial)
> application, but before he does I'd like to make him consider other
> (free) options, if there are any (which might be unlikely, give that
> this is a rather specific business area).
>
> I'd be very grateful for any information you could provide.
>
> Thanks a lot and Happy New Year, Manuel
Hi Manuel,
I am not aware of any specific software for the Insurance industry. You
might check freshmeat.net and sourceforge for something. Although there
may be something that can be adapted to his/her needs. Maybe he/she can
write a specification for this software and see if anyone may want to do it.
There are even people who create monitary bounties for software.
Cheers,
Kev
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