Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Insurance Data Processing, is a software and services vendor based in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. IDP makes insurance software for property and casualty insurance carriers and agencies; IDP also provides statistical reporting services and project planning consultation. IDP was founded in 1949, by a group of five insurance companies and a reinsurance brokerage firm. These six entities formed a cooperative accounting and statistical unit; subsequent growth resulted in the formation of Mutual Tabulating Services, Inc. in 1953. Over the next ten years, with the increasing use of computers in business operations, the company entered the field of computer-based data processing. In 1961, the name of the corporation was changed to Insurance Data Processing, Incorporated.