Jim Kellner, Chairman and CEO of Applied, announced a new agency management system—Applied Systems Epic™, at the ASCnet Users Group annual convention last month. The Applied Epic system has been under development for several years. While the company has tightly controlled information about the new system, some information began to surface several months ago.

During the announcement, Kellner called the new system “a simple-to-use, secure, scalable, rich Internet application that is free of browser-based inefficiency.” Applied Systems Epic is the culmination of “a lengthy and intensive undertaking to create a new system, to construct it on totally new architecture that would be flexible and scalable for any agency or brokerage.”

He emphasized that the new system is not an update of any existing system, including Applied’s 25-year-old flagship, TAM (The Agency Manager®). He said the company is committed to continuing development of TAM as well as its other systems, Vision and DORIS. The Epic system will be in general release in the United States on November 12, and in Canada in 2009. TAAR will take an in-depth look at the new system in a future issue.