Redondo Beach, CA - January 24, 2006 Vinsurance today launched The Insurance Productivity Portal Template, billed as the most complete web site template for MGAs and Surplus Lines Brokers on the market. The template supports all the usual insurance industry-specific web site features, as well as, supports all the next generation service-oriented features that the wholesaler's producers, carriers and partners will be asking for in the near future.

The benefits of the template to insurance wholesalers are both strategic and economic. The template reduces the need for a web portal development staff and excessive portal maintenance costs, while at the same time, enabling the wholesaler with a complete set of modern web applications that can easily adapt to future unforeseen business changes at the lowest possible cost.

The template leverages the latest web development productivity tools, including Visual Studio 2005, the .Net Framework 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 as the database.

Some of the features of The Portal Template include:

• Complete security system to keep track of registered users and control where they can get to in your portal, including a world-class membership, roles and user profiles management facility.
• Protected, inside 'control panel' web page for registered users with customizable links to any number of self-rating programs and useful facilities a wholesaler would want to provide to increase productivity.
• Administrative 'control panel' web page to manage who can register for access to the protected facilities of the site, as well as, additional tools to manage all other portal features.
• Multi-step user registration facility - the first step prompts the person registering to provide a valid producer code before preceding with the rest of the registration process.
• the ability for a registered user to personalize the home page and the inside control panel web pages.
• Multiple modern, distributed advertising facilities, including industry standard XML Web services and RSS feeds to publicize your form downloads, markets and programs.
• Ability to integrate with any information management system your company is currently using if that system has industry standard interfaces.
• ... and many other standard and advanced wholesale insurance industry-specific web portal features.