ACORD launches London certification facility

LONDON—The Assn. for Cooperative Operations Research and Development has launched a testing and certification facility in London.

According to Pearl River, N.Y.-based ACORD, the new facility will make it easier for ACORD members to test the implementation and certify messages for ACORD Document Repository Interface standard adoption.

London market developers can send ACORD messages to the facility, where the system can validate them and return responses indicating acceptance or errors.

The system was a collaborative effort with member company TriSystems InfoBahn Ltd.

For now, the system can only be used for Document Repository Interface messages, though ACORD will evaluate expanding the system to other ACORD standards.