Purpose:

            This document will offer insight into the CIECA certification process.  It will explain what your company will need and the steps in the certification process.  At a high level you will be completing the following steps:

1. Fill out the Certification application on the CIECA web site
2. Receive a Certification UserID and password from the CIECA Staff
3. Prepare the application message for submission – Some de-identification of data may be desired
4. Test the company application prepared XML message against the CIECA approved Schema
5. If an error is recognized, correct the submitted message and repeat step 3 testing
6. Certification!  A message will be received stating “No errors were found”
7. CIECA web site updated by CIECA Staff to reflect certification success by your company   

Certification Application Types and Detail

The requester contacts CIECA staff via phone to request an application or the requestor downloads it from the web site.

The application details the level (category) of certification requested.

The application to be certified will be validated against the CIECA Business Message Specification (BMS) Schema.

The applicant will also indicate which part of the BMS Schema they are looking for certification on as to assignment document type. These are considered to be subsets of the BMS Schema.

• Estimate Assignment Document.

• Glass Assignment Document.

• Rental Assignment Document.

• Salvage Assignment Document.

• CSI Assignment Document.

• Estimate Detail Document.

• Other message types based on the CIECA Schema.

The applicant will indicate the type of certification for each document submitted as “New” or “Recertify”.

The application will also list the applicants’ product name, description and version number to be certified. These can include older product versions that use the current CIECA BMS Schema.

Use case example:

 “Estimating Company A Inc” has upgraded their estimate software package to a newer version and has additional functionality that now includes salvage valuations for insurance companies. They already had certification for the estimate assignment and estimate detail in an earlier version and now want to recertify because there were no changes to that portion of the product in this new version. They are also indicating that the salvage assignment functionality will now be included in their new release version indicated in the following form.

Applicant submits the form via fax or through an email attachment to the CIECA Staff

CIECA Staff reviews the application and returns a confirmation message with a UserID, password, and tracking number to the electronic address of the technical contact listed on the application

 Submission of data documents Preparation

Prepare a file with the information to be certified.  Some organizations may need to consider de-identification of the data to be submitted for certification.  Now is the time to perform this step.  It’s also a good time to review the XML wrapper information.  In the example below, VehicleDamageEstimateAddRq is shown but you need to substitute the appropriate message name and the appropriate BMS version number (BMSVer).  Wrap the data similar to the following example: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <VehicleDamageEstimateAddRq xmlns="http://www.cieca.com/BMS">
<RqUID>f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6</RqUID>
<SvcProviderName>Your Company Name</SvcProviderName>
- <DocumentInfo>
<BMSVer>2.0.0</BMSVer>
 

Submission of data documents

Go to the CIECA web site and enter the Certification portion of the web site.  This will require the userid and password from the email sent by CIECA staff.

A Certification screen will pop up that requires entry of the tracking number given in the email from the CIECA Staff, and also requires entry of a file name containing the data to be certified. 

Enter the required data on this screen, press enter, and you will receive a response which indicates the certification results.  At the bottom of the response screen under the heading “***Validation Errors***” you will see “No errors were found” if the message certified correctly.  Congratulations!

Notification of Completion

Notify the CIECA Staff via email that Certification was successful. They will verify the results and complete Your Certification.