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  • Stop Being A Hated IT Overlord
    By InformationWeek | June 17, 2013
    Recent research suggests that only 30% of workers are fully engaged in their job. We can't fix corporate dysfunction until we break down bureaucracy and do right by our employees.
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  • Gartner: Personal Loss Control Could Reduce Losses 20% by 2015
    By Anthony O'Donnell | June 14, 2013
    What a new Gartner report terms "active loss prevention" could usher in a new era of insurer/policyholder cooperation in the prevention of loss of property and person — potentially reshaping...
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  • The Philadelphia Contributorship Chooses ISCS SurePower Innovation Suite
    By Anthony O'Donnell | June 14, 2013
    The Ben Franklin-founded company set out to find a core systems solution that could meet expectations of producers and insureds for service and information access, while providing internal process...
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  • Three Insurers Take The Plunge Into Telehealth
    By Nathan Golia | June 14, 2013
    Two Blue plans are piloting American Well online and mobile health services, while Humana Cares selects a new provider for a congestive heart failure initiative.
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  • Will IT Departments Disappear By 2020?
    By InformationWeek | June 13, 2013
    Forrester Research predicts IT will be embedded in various customer-facing teams.
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  • Lincoln Financial Distributors' Tech Strategy: Be Producer-Centric
    By Nathan Golia | June 13, 2013
    The insurer says it is dedicated to making producers' jobs easier and less paper-intensive by developing proprietary digital tools.
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  • Application Performance: A New Competitive Advantage in Insurance
    By Kieran Taylor, Compuware | June 13, 2013
    Many insurers struggle to proactively monitor and manage application delivery chains. What does it take to deliver round-the-clock service, with applications that work everywhere, all the time?
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  • FIO and NYDFS: A Tale of Two Reports
    By Anthony O'Donnell | June 13, 2013
    New York Insurance Commissioner Ben Lawsky's criticism of captive reinsurance deals appears sensationalist in light of the yesterday's FIO report and industry-side statements.
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  • Insurers Still Waiting for Regulatory Modernization Report
    By Nathan Golia | June 13, 2013
    Yesterday's release of an informational report by the Federal Insurance Office was a nice start, but for people in the insurance industry, only increases the hunger for the main event.
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  • Scotland Maps Rural Farms With Open Source, Cloud
    By InformationWeek | June 13, 2013
    Scotland turned to small businesses and new technologies to improve access to data about its crofts -- the country's extensive network of tiny agricultural holdings.
• • FirstBest Integrates Verisk Data with Underwriting Suite
    By Zarna Patel | June 13, 2013
    Version 5.0 of the company's Front Office Suite for underwriters includes integration with multiple data sources from Verisk Analytics' underwriting division.
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  • Google Buys Waze
    By InformationWeek | June 12, 2013
    As a company built largely on the latent labor in Web links, Google sees value in contributed traffic reporting.
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  • What Kinds of Regulatory Compliance Tech are on Insurers' Agenda?
    By Nathan Golia | June 12, 2013
    Insurance companies are investing in technology to help them manage compliance -- but not all solutions are created equal.
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  • 4 Key Issues from the Long-Delayed FIO Report
    By Nathan Golia | June 12, 2013
    The Federal Insurance Office's first annual report on the U.S. insurance industry, mandated by the Dodd-Frank law, came out -- more than a year late -- today. Here's a quick, early look at what the...
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• • IPartners Signs South African Insurer
    By Zarna Patel | June 11, 2013
    Hannover Re subsidiary Compass Insurance will use iPartners for BI and data warehousing.
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