Zetein  Inc

Zetein performs many services in helping companies implement industry standards. This includes: planning, mapping, design, programming, and training. The following standards are currently supported:

• ACORD Life Standards
• ACORD P&C Standards
• IFX Standards

John Meagher is uniquely qualified to assist companies implementing the ACORD standard. Having spent 2 1/2 years developing the Life Standard for ACORD, he assisted many companies with implementation problems. Given the most difficult problems, he always devised a workable solution. John often solved technical and implementation issues. The original schema versions of the standard were developed by Mr. Meagher. He was the only technical person on the life team and assisted many of the members in their accomplishments toward the standards including mapping, problem solving and implementation strategy.

• Project milestones are being missed
• There are many errors in the work product
• The project may be cancelled
• A cost overrun is apparent
• The project team is overworked
• You feel the project is out of control

We work with your organization to identify the reasons the project is in trouble and work with you to get it on track. We can provide supplemental staffing where needed or work with existing personnel.

• System Conversion - Zetein has helped many companies convert from one administrative system to another. We use tested techniques to do the conversion to assure accuracy and do it in the shortest possible time.
• Application Design - Having designed many systems from desktop, to mainframe, to web enabled, to web services, we are uniquely capable to do a thorough design using whatever platform or toolset desired.
• Programming   -  Zetein will perform implementation programming (Java or Visual Basic), interfacing with legacy systems (CICS, COBOL, Assembler, VSAM, DB2 and others), design tasks, or management of your implementation. We have hands on experience on both sides.
• Interface Design   -  We will design and help implement interfaces between systems. A standard is only useful if it is implemented between two systems or trading partners. Zetein has unique qualifications to design interfaces between diverse systems.
• Legacy System Strategies   -  With heavy experience with legacy systems, older programming languages and access methods (CICS, COBOL, Assembler, VSAM, DB2 and others), and new Programming Languages and strategies(Java, Visual Basic, Web Services, J2EE, and others) , Zetein is uniquely suited to design strategies for easier access to legacy system information. We can work on either side or both sides of the interface, the mainframe of the server side.
• Project management   - Zetein Inc is committed to working for you in any phase of a project from initial inception through production. We have many cumulative years of project management and application development. Our team is qualified to take responsibility for the success of your project. We include estimation of the effort, staffing, design, programming, project management and control of all of the phases of your specific needs. We are willing to take the responsibility, share it, or work within your project management! You can totally outsource any project to Zetein. 
• Schema enhancements and extensions   -  Using extensive design experience, our consultants will help in designing enhancements to the ACORD standard and in preparing maintenance requests to add those you choose to the ACORD standard.

• ACORD Life Standard - TXLifE, XMLifE, and XTbML
• ACORD P& C Standard - All lines if business
• Schema Design - Options, How to, and trade offs
• XML Training - general training
• SAX vs DOM vs Other parsing - using JAVA, Visual Basic or on the Mainframe
• XSL & XSLT - How to and techniques
• Xpath - Use & Programming

• Problem resolution - with many years of experience, we have insite into many of the problems you face daily and cnan help resolve the problems
• Software selection - having extensive experience with many systems gives us a perspective to aid in assuring that software selected meets your needs.
• Change management - any software change necessitates changes with an organization. We aid in the transition.