Assureweb takes collaborative approach to doing business with UKSolutions

26th July 2010

UKSolutions, one of the UK's largest privately owned data centre providers
today announced its official partnership with Cheltenham based financial
services technology provider, Assureweb. The company has relocated its
mission critical service to UKSolutions. Studley campus with its tier IV
specification data centre, in order to provide 100 per cent uptime to its
financial sector based customers.

Owned by a consortium of six product providers; AEGON Scottish Equitable, Aviva, Clerical Medical,
Friends Provident, Prudential and Scottish Widows, Assureweb is renowned as a leading technology
partner for financial intermediaries, providing access to online quotations and applications for
over 180 products from more than 35 market leading providers. Servicing over 22,000 registered users
from across the UK Life & Pensions market, Assureweb specialises in partnering with leading customer
relationship management and point of sale system providers, integrating product provider quotation
and application data.

Andy Riddett, IT Director at Assureweb responsible for IT strategy, technology solutions and
delivering industry leading IT infrastructure and security commented:
“We compete in a competitive market and the availability and security of the Assureweb service
to our clients is without doubt our most important priority. At Assureweb we strive to provide
services that not only meet with the SLAs and expectations of our key customers, but exceed their
expectations.”

Andy continued:
“The standard of technical expertise we experienced during the formal evaluation, migration
and post implementation processes reassured us that UKSolutions could deliver the service
availability we required. In addition to this, the strong engineering background demonstrated by the
UKSolutions team from the boardroom, right down to the data floor, provided us with great
confidence. We feel our partnership with UKSolutions will add great value to our business and we
believe they will help to maintain the high levels of customer service expected of us.”

Assureweb take a collaborative approach to doing business, and continue to build strategic
partnerships with a wide range of technology partners such as IntelliFlo, SSP, Trigold Crystal ,
Distribution Technology and Focus Solutions.

Daniel Lowe, founder and managing director, UKSolutions said: “Security and reliability are
two of the central pillars of our business. We continue to strive for excellence and efficiency so
that businesses can improve performance levels with the minimum levels of downtime possible. The
similar values both UKSolutions and Assureweb share make the partnership a cohesive and natural step
forward, and we look forward to delivering its live service and continued uptime for many years to
come.”

About Assureweb:

For further information about Assureweb, please visit www.assureweb.co.uk.
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1. Assureweb's services are based around ease of use. Whether users simply access the Assureweb
portal or connect to Assureweb's hub to extract product provider data, Assureweb is designed with
one aim in mind: to help advisers and administrators improve service, efficiency and ultimately
profitability by conducting business electronically.
2. Assureweb is the only data provider that is owned by the industry, for the industry. It is backed
by Aegon, Clerical Medical, Friends Provident, Aviva, Prudential and Scottish Widows. It is also
supported by a further 30 product providers, and offers a range of more than 150 products.
3. Assureweb charges no license fees for UK-based intermediaries and their staff. More than 24,000
individuals have either used or registered for its services in the last 12 months.
4. Assureweb consistently wins industry awards for its services to intermediaries. It has most
recently won the .Best Independent Online Services Provider. at the 2009 Professional Adviser
awards. Prior to that it won .Best IFA Portal' in the recent Pensions Management Technology Awards.
It has also secured the .Best IT Provider' award from Threesixty, beating off competition from rival
portals.
5. Comprehensive comparative quotations are available for term, critical illness, income protection,
investment bond, annuity, equity release and pension products, supported by product information,
literature, news, specialist ratings and electronic new business services.
6. Assureweb offers the only major portal that enables users to fully refine client-specific
illustrations, giving access to provider-specific benefits and options, as well as commission
styles.
7. Assureweb's new business service allows users to benefit from a seamless, intuitive process
feeding through from comparative and then refined quotes to allow the user to apply online.

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