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UNUMPROVIDENT Developing INTEGRATED, ONLINE ENROLLMENT SYSTEM
plane.biz
to help meet
increasing employer needs for flexible worksite support
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (June 28, 2005) – UnumProvident (NYSE: UNM),
a leader in supplemental benefits sold at the worksite, is developing a new
web-based platform that will facilitate enrollment of most of the company’s
products in nearly any business environment.
This user-friendly solution, plane.biz, will be the first truly complete
enrollment integration of UnumProvident’s group, supplemental and multi-life
disability income protection products.Importantly for employers, it will also
offer support for other core products that a customer may wish to enroll. The
plane.biz tool will be used during face-to-face enrollment sessions, through
call centers, or by employee self-service on the Internet.
"Using plane.biz,employees will be able to enroll for benefits in the format
that is most comfortable to them – online, on the phone, or in person,” said
Rosalind Connor, assistant vice president of enrollment services. “This
expansion of our capabilities will give our customers a high degree of
flexibility, responding to the varying needs of today’s diverse work
environment.”
In addition to being used by UnumProvident’s internal enrollment entity,
plane.biz will support the needs of external enrollment vendors for the
sale of UnumProvident’s full array of products. An ideal tool for
face-to-face enrollments, plane.biz will also meet the needs of employers
with multiple locations by supporting employee self-service enrollment for
group and individual disability income protection, life and long term care
products as well as critical illness and accident. Additional capabilities will
be added through early 2006.
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