VP/MS

VP/MS
Original author(s)CSC
Initial release1997
Licensecorporate and individually negotiated
Websitewww.csc.com

VP/MS (Visual Product Modeling System) is a family of software components developed by CSC that support product development and product lifecycle management.[1] Insurance companies (among other users in business and IT[2]) use VP/MS to manage the rules, clauses, formulas and calculations associated with savings and both life and non-life insurance products. With VP/MS all calculations and queries for purposes such as quotes and administration are supported by a central repository of product definitions.[1][3]

VP/MS supports processes like product definition and administration, product testing and documentation, design checks, visualization and cross-platform usage of products. In addition to hosting product definitions, VP/MS is a modeling language. It provides a graphical interface (GUI) for creating business rules as components and models.[2]

VP/MS is platform independent[4] – products can be ported to any administration or illustration system or deployed over the Internet[5] – and makes use of the Eclipse platform[6] for developing software.

  1. ^ a b "VP/MS Product Flexibility" (PPT). 2007. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
  2. ^ a b "Making The Case For Centralized Processing" (PDF). James Daggett (Tech Decisions). 2007. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
  3. ^ "Visual Product Modeling System Brochure" (PDF). 2008. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
  4. ^ "Model Carrier Component Recognition". Globe Investor. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
  5. ^ "Visual Product Modeling System (VP/MS)". 2008. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
  6. ^ "CSC LEF Report on Open Source software" (PDF). CSC. 2004. Retrieved 2009-07-24.