Each quarterly release of the SCEX usually contains client specfic enhancements, which we define as enhancements made at the request of an individual partner or partner’s client, which may not be of much interest to most of our partners. However, every so often we introduce general enhancements, which we believe will have a more sweeping impact for all of our partners. With our July, 2010, release, we are pleased to announce just such an enhancement with the addition of PMI insurance to the SCEX.

Central States Health and Life Co. of Omaha (CSO) is an old friend of J. L. Sherman & Associates, having purchased our loan calculation software for their accounts back in the 1980’s. So we are especially pleased that CSO has chosen Sherman and Associates as their exclusive partner for the loan and insurance calculations within their new debt protection administration system. CSO’s system will be using the Sherman Calculation Engine with XML Interface (SCEX) to drive the calculations.

In the previous update to our website, we mentioned the addition of the HPML analysis to SCEX, among other enhancements. There has been so much interest in the HPML analysis that we thought it deserved special mention.

J. L. Sherman and Associates offers new releases of our software on a regular quarterly basis, targeting the early part of January, April, July, and October. Occasionally, a partner will request new functionality to be delivered as quickly as possible between quarterly releases. In these situations, we then bundle the requested new functionality with already completed development work into an interim release. Here are some of the latest additions delivered last month in interim release 2010-01-1.

Welcome to J. L. Sherman and Associates’ new web site! The new architecture underlying our site will allow us to provide our customers and partners a more efficient way to interact with us, while still providing the information necessary for prospective customers to find out what it is exactly that we do.

We are also introducing our new company logo, which is next to our name at the top of each page on our website, and is featured prominently in our introduction. Many logos relate to a company’s name or products, and our logo is joining that crowded group. The Giant Sequoia is unique to Calfornia, our home state, and is known by all to be the largest tree, as well as a truly magnificent and long lived entity – characteristics to which Sherman & Associates aspires. The largest of all is the General Sherman tree, in Sequoia National Park. Our company principals, John and Judy Sherman, travel frequently to the park to pay homage.