The Evolution of the Third Party Ecosystem

At that point in time, I was still doing a lot of low level work with server server management. The company that I worked for at the time was an insurance firm. And they had 300 offices scattered around the United States. We would send data updates to them, whether they be rate changes or customer updates and we'd send these update files out to them. Then the system would receive the files, unzip them, and add them to the local copy of the database. At that stage, no, I wasn't aware of the third party ecosystem.