An Insurance Agency Management System created by Impowersoft

Aspire, the flagship software from Impowersoft, is a premium insurance agency management system designed to help improve how insurance agencies operate. Impowersoft has taken its expertise in software and used input from insurance agents to craft its premier software offering. It is certified by Microsoft and built around their revolutionary Asp.net framework and SQL server. Aspire is also a 100% web-based insurance software, which enables access from anywhere an agent can get on the internet. Agents can even start processing claims in the field from their internet enabled mobile device.

Impowersoft has loaded Aspire with a revolutionary insurance CRM module. This allows for agent customization to increase efficiency and productivity and enhances the way they connect with their contacts, whether they are clients, business, other vendors, or other employees. The module also has a comprehensive market module with many communication methods including Email, text messaging, and social network integration.

Aspire has been built with unmatched speed and stability, guaranteeing insurance agents maximum performance with little glitches. Software upgrades are seamless as Impowersoft adds new and improved features. Since Impowersoft is continually fine tuning its insurance agency management system, upgrades are always something to expect, but will not result in any downtime for the busy agent.

Aspire’s web-based system also improves energy efficiency at the office. Impowersoft stores all data on its own servers in Pennsylvania and backs them up on a redundant system in Texas, ensuring the data is safe and secure. The insurance agency management system eliminates the need for offices to operate their own servers and associated cooling equipment, saving costs for the agency. In addition, agents do not have to take time to come to the office, further reducing costs for both the agent (through transportation) and agency (through office size reduction and utility costs).

Aspire insurance agency management system is how Impowersoft strives to improve how agents and agencies work. Through its speed and efficiency, Impowersoft hopes Aspire can improve the efficiency of insurance agents and agencies. The reputation of Microsoft accreditation coupled with the detailed input of insurance agents has resulted in the powerhouse that Impowersoft created.

SQL Server and ASP.NET encompassed by Amazon

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting chummier with Microsoft all the time. The latest example? Microsoft developers, and there are a ton of them, can now more easily write code again AWS.

In particular SQL Server and ASP.NET coders can either migrate existing code or write fresh stuff to run up in the Amazon cloud, thanks to two new Amazon services.
1. Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) for Microsoft SQL Server
2. AWS Elastic Beanstalk for support of ASP.NET

In the case of SQL, only relatively new versions apply -- SQL Server 2008 R2 and the spankin' new SQL Server 2012 to be exact.

That means AWS supports a rich complement of commercial and open databases, including MySQL, Oracle, and SQL: Express. Low-end SQL installs (a paltry 20 GB) are free.

ASP.NET joins the already supported PHP and Java.

ASP.NET Is The Latest Version Of ASP Technology

ASP.NET is the next generation ASP, but it's not an upgraded version of ASP. ASP.NET is an entirely new technology for server-side scripting. It was written from the ground up and is not backward compatible with classic ASP.ASP.NET is the major part of the Microsoft's .NET Framework.
ASP.NET is a server side scripting technology that enables scripts (embedded in web pages) to be executed by an Internet server.

•ASP.NET is a Microsoft Technology
•ASP stands for Active Server Pages
•ASP.NET is a program that runs inside IIS
•IIS (Internet Information Services) is Microsoft's Internet server
•IIS comes as a free component with Windows servers
•IIS is also a part of Windows 2000 and XP Professional

ASP.NET 2.0 improves upon Asp.Net by adding support for several new features and ASP.NET 3.0 is not a new version of ASP.NET. It's just the name for a new ASP.NET 2.0 framework library with support for Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation; and Windows Card Space.

Benefits of ASP.Net

•ASP.NET has better language support, a large set of new controls and XML based components.
•ASP.NET provides increased performance by running compiled code.
•ASP.NET code is not fully backward compatible with ASP.
•Event-driven programming
•User authentication, with accounts and roles
•Higher scalability
•Easier configuration and deployment


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Run ASP.NET MVC on Windows Azure

If you’ve purposefully been ignoring the announcements out of PDC, I don’t blame you one bit. Everybody knew it would be the unveiling of Microsoft’s “cloud computing” initiative, and just about the only thing we didn’t know was the official name of it: Windows Azure. And of course I pronounce it wrong every time (I say “ah-jour”, as in “soup-de-jour”). It’s hard to call it “initiative” when they’re the 3rd one to bring a product to the table. ;)

One thing I was looking forward to was hearing about the ASP.NET MVC story on Azure. So color me surprised when I found out there wasn’t one. Since ASP.NET MVC is bin-deployable it shouldn’t be impossible, and doing some quick searches didn’t retrieve any results showing anybody else having tried this. Of course later I discovered that Phil and Eilon had whipped up a sample app that ran ASP.NET MVC on Azure, but was pleased to find out that the downloadable sample app didn’t work. In fact, it seemed to just be MVC stuff slapped into a WebRole project. (I’m guessing something got “lost in translation” since it wasn’t Phil or Eilon that posted the code.)

Anyway, here’s how you can get ASP.NET MVC up and running on Azure. I’ve created a Visual Studio template for this to make it easy to set up - download it here. To avoid distributing code that isn’t my own (i.e. Windows Azure SDK Samples) there are a few steps you’ll have to take. I’m presuming that you’ve already installed the Windows Azure SDK and the Azure Visual Studio tools.

One thing that running a web application “in the cloud” means is that you can instantly scale higher by adding more “instances”. This means the leaky-as-a-sieve abstraction of “session state” isn’t immediately available (finally!) since any given HTTP request could be going to a different server. The default session state provider for ASP.NET is an in-memory provider. This assumes that every request comes to the same physical machine. Session state providers have varied in their reliability and handling of scalability, but the other built-in providers include an out-of-proc provider (still same machine, but more resilient to IIS going up and down) and a SQL Server provider. None of these are enabled on the Azure platform, for good reason.

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