Pizza Fusion Boosts Employee Morale with Emphasis on Quality of Life

Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) October 5, 2007

Following suit on their good business practices, the executives of Pizza Fusion (http://www.pizzafusion.com), America's greenest restaurant concept, are enhancing productivity at their corporate offices by establishing an office culture based on quality of life. From complimentary lunches and late passes to out-of-the-office events, like go-carting on Fridays, Pizza Fusion's corporate offices are everything but corporate and, with an enormous growth rate this year, productivity is only increasing.

Vaughan Lazar, CEO and co-founder of Pizza Fusion, grew up surfing and snowboarding in Rhode Island. A lover of outdoor sports, he competes annually in the World Adult Kickball Association (http://www.kickball.com) league where, this year, his team took 1st Place at the National Tournament in Boston, Massachusetts. Vaughan brought his love for kickball into the office earlier this year and started a Pizza Fusion kickball team, appropriately named 'Feets O' Fusion.'

"Our motivation in founding Pizza Fusion stemmed from our own personal desires to be a part of a rewarding project that provided us with a better quality of life," Vaughan explains. "We decided from day one that we would always have a workplace culture that was as enriching and exciting as our personal lives. We believe it's made all the difference with a stronger work performance, better morale, and much higher attendance with all our employees or family as we prefer to consider ourselves."

Other examples of their laid back approach to business are giving late passes on the days there's surf, organizing company outings, such as concerts and go-carting, buying lunch for the 'family,' think tank sessions at the Frog and Toad (a local pub) and instituting a jeans and t-shirt dress code. The ambiance of Pizza Fusion's headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida reflects that of their restaurants with hand painted murals and satellite radio broadcasting throughout.

"I never wake up in the morning and dread coming into the office. In fact, most days I look forward to it," Katy Livingston, creative director at Pizza Fusion, explains. "Not only do I get to do what I love for a living but I get the added bonus of working for a socially conscious company that is trying to make the world a better place. That culture definitely transcends into our office. Everyone here is like family. Even on the weekends, we have potluck gatherings and kickball games. We all want to be here, and it's obvious that our business philosophy is what drives us to work hard; not some overbearing boss with strict rules."

Since launching their franchise program in February of this year, Pizza Fusion has taken the lead as America's greenest restaurant concept with an industry leading environmentally sustainable approach to their restaurants' buildout, service and operations. Currently, the company has over 50 franchises opening in seven states, including California, Nevada, Colorado, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia and Florida.

About Pizza Fusion

Founded in February of 2006, Pizza Fusion leads a new niche market by combining an eclectic 98% organic menu with a detail-oriented environmental business approach in chic LEED certified fast casual environments. Pizza Fusion serves gourmet pizzas, focaccia sandwiches, salads, desserts, beers, wines and more in their purest form - untainted by artificial additives, such as sweeteners, pesticides, preservatives, antibiotics and hormones. For additional information, visit: http://www.pizzafusion.com.

For editorial inquires, contact:

Eric Haley

Vice President of Communications

Pizza Fusion

6555 Powerline Rd., Suite 101

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309

Office: (954) 449-7244

Fax: (954) 449-4957

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New Life Insurance Rules Engine in Apptical PURETM Improves Speed of Underwriting Decisions

Boca Raton, Florida (PRWEB) October 11, 2011

Apptical Corp. announced today that a rewrite of the Apptical PURE rules engine has been released. PURE TM is an on-demand, product-centric life insurance rules engine that supports the authoring, testing, deployment and management of business and underwriting rules. The engine uses the product-centric rules to interrogate and evaluate different types of data and choose the appropriate rating class. The rule authoring interface includes a natural-language vocabulary that enables the simple authoring of complex industry specific rules. The result, after processing, includes the appropriate rating class, dialog to communicate the rating class, and a commentary of all rule hit activity describing in detail why a rule was determined to be a hit.

Typically life insurance company users must rely on black box closed debit and credit point based systems or systems where they cant author product-specific rules. Apptical has recreated its PURE life insurance rules engine with the addition of new product management, rule authoring, and administration tools to help customers better manage their life insurance offerings and the rules that pertain to them. Using PURE, insurers are now able to author product rules thereby enabling them to better manage product eligibility predictions earlier in the sales and application process up to and including the point of sale.

"Finally, the proverbial black box has been shattered. Now life insurers can freely manage this critical aspect of product functionality. PURE encompasses not only a strong formulary but also a complex methodology of proactive rule set capabilities that can impact eligibility decisions at the point of sale," said Ann Dudte, Director of Professional Services at Apptical. "The new user interface with rule authoring capabilities will allow Apptical customers to manage and control Life insurance rules for their respective products by enforcing the exact appropriate product rules and restricting cost per application."

With ever increasing price pressures, insurers need a way to rate or decline earlier in the sales process to help protect the time investment of their producers. If their products can be approved at the point of sale, a benefit is provided to the applicant and the producer if one is involved. It is critical that rule authors can command specific reflexive questions are asked not only as a result of a disclosure but as a result of any type of rule hit involving third party data.

PURE, developed by Apptical, is a comprehensive, web-based solution that enables underwriters, medical directors, actuaries and business life insurance professionals to author product centric rules and streamline the sales process for their producers without compromising the quality of the underwriting process. The service is available on demand 24x7. When a request is submitted to PURE, the response is available in as little as ten seconds depending on the speed of the third party data responses. Rules can be based on a variety of different criteria including thresholds for minimum and maximum cost, and clinical appropriateness of the product ordered.

In addition to the rules, PURE allows rule authors to add one or more custom reflexive questions based on disclosure data or the results from any third party data response. Rules can then be authored against the disclosure data resulting from the reflexive questions and can effect the rating.

PURE can be used with teleunderwriting, life insurance telephone interviews, and electronic applications.

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