Financial services company OneShield, Inc. is working with professional servcies firm PixelMEDIA, to design and implement a next generation user interface. This new 2007 user interface endeavor continues OneShield's commitment to providing their customers with a modern policy administration system, the company says.

In 2006, OneShield added significant enhancements to its user interface including AJAX capabilities for transaction processing. AJAX is a web-based technology that provides high performance data streaming between a web page and back-end server resources. OneShield has created an AJAX framework that allows page fields to be hooked up to a high-performance, rule processing engine.

Fields on a page can be associated with an AJAX transaction thus allowing a quick, high-performance call to the backend, without the performance cost of posting the entire page, for updating the associated fields. Rules can be created in the Dragon Designer toolset that provide single and multi-field validation. Rules can also be created so that changes to one field can control the content of other fields on the page.

"Our product strategy continues to be one that perpetuates a customer-centric focus," comments Vivek Gujral, Chief Technology Officer. "With this in mind, implementing a new user interface that takes advantage of improved technology aimed at enhancing the overall performance and customer experience was a natural progression in our corporate strategy," adds Gujral.

OneShield develops browser-based solutions to automate the sales and service of insurance and bond products for insurance carriers, major brokers, and MGAs. Its flagship product, OneShield Dragon, is a tools-based, data-driven insurance underwriting, policy administration, rating and workflow engine.