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  • Infrastructure
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      Tech Must Play Critical Role in Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Debut
      Start up ventures without legacy burdens enjoy a great opportunity for a forward-looking management team to really embed analytics and digital communications into their strategy, but others can leverage technology for specialty success, suggests Martina Conlon, Novarica.
    • Architecture/Infrastructure News

      • Bring Your Own Service: The Next Wave in Collaboration?
      • A Comeback for Native Mobile Apps in Insurance?
      • Insurance CIOs Are Reshaping Their IT Organizations to Fit the Times
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      • Application Performance: A New Competitive Advantage in Insurance
      • 4 Things Insurers Really Want from Mobile
      • 3 Reasons Insurance Carriers Should Bet on Mobile Technology
      • Managing Marketing's IT Spend
  • Policy Administration
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      4 Key Benefits of SaaS Automated Systems for Life Insurers
      The potential benefits of automated systems for new business and underwriting – in terms of speed, accuracy, cost reduction and improved service – make for a compelling value proposition.
    • Policy Administration News

      • Most Insurers Seek Integrated Core Platform: SAP Survey
      • The Philadelphia Contributorship Chooses ISCS SurePower Innovation Suite
      • FirstBest Integrates Verisk Data with Underwriting Suite
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      • Underwriting Technology Matures: The Birth and Rise
      • What Commercial Insurers Can Learn from Manufacturers
      • Insurance CIOs Should Turn Conventional Transformational Wisdom on its Head
      • After a Decade of M&A, CFG Emerges Unified on Sapiens ALIS Policy Administration System
  • Claims
    • Top Story

      Gartner: Personal Loss Control Could Reduce Losses 20% by 2015
      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 consumers' perception of the value of the insurance industry.
    • Claims News

      • Most Insurers Seek Integrated Core Platform: SAP Survey
      • National Western Life Replaces Existing eApp With StoneRiver LifeApply
      • MEDfx Gets Michigan Designation as SSA Disability eClaims Tech Provider
      More Claims News
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      • Application Performance: A New Competitive Advantage in Insurance
      • 10 Top Tweets from #IASA2013
      • IASA Trend Watch: Mobile
      • Insurer Says Blue Cod Solution Stood Test of Super Storm Sandy
  • Management Strategies
    • Top Story

      CIOs Must Be Leaders, Not Mere Technocrats
      Technical competence is never enough, at least not for inspiring excellence in execution in others, helping them to be better than the teams you're competing against.
    • Management Strategies News

      • Farmers Taps Yahoo Vet to Lead Digital Strategy
      • Travelers Acquires Dominion of Canada
      • Aegon Appoints Americas Exec Global CTO
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      • Northwestern Mutual’s Enterprise Venture Fund Drives New Tech Adoption
      • IASA Trend Watch: Mobile
      • Jackson National Life's Rapid Growth Drives Facilities, IT Expansion
      • 5 Market Forces Driving Change in Insurance Carriers' Strategy — Deloitte
  • Risk Management
    • Top Story

      Video: Sentry Takes Risk Management Portal Mobile
      The mobile version of Sentry Insight is meant to give commercial lines customers greater access to their claims information.
    • Risk Management News

      • Vertafore Commits to Single Sign-On
      • MagMutual Names New Risk Management VP
      • Hartford Steam Boiler Partners on Blackout Risk Tech
      More Risk Management News
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      • Technology and History Accelerate Insurers' Risk Management Evolution
      • Big Data Boosts Enterprise Risk Management
      • Badass Diamond Heist Boosts Case for Loss Control Tech
      • Making ERM Part of an Insurer's Culture Requires People, Not Just Technology
  • Regulation
    • Top Story

      FIO and NYDFS: A Tale of Two Reports
      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.
    • Regulation News

      • MEDfx Gets Michigan Designation as SSA Disability eClaims Tech Provider
      • Insurers Still Waiting for Regulatory Modernization Report
      • SAP's Camilion Buy Fuels New Compliance-Focused Launch
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      • 4 Key Issues from the Long-Delayed FIO Report
      • 5 Market Forces Driving Change in Insurance Carriers' Strategy — Deloitte
      • After a Decade of M&A, CFG Emerges Unified on Sapiens ALIS Policy Administration System
      • 4 Health Insurance Reform Concerns Technology Can Address
  • Distribution
    • Top Story

      Gartner: Personal Loss Control Could Reduce Losses 20% by 2015
      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 consumers' perception of the value of the insurance industry.
    • Distribution News

      • National Western Life Replaces Existing eApp With StoneRiver LifeApply
      • Lincoln Financial Distributors' Tech Strategy: Be Producer-Centric
      • Sentinel Security Life Adopts iPipeline iGO App-based Solution
      More Distribution News
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      • 3 Technologies Changing P&C Insurance Distribution
      • Tech-Enabled Closers Pursue Golden Leads in Insurance Sales
      • Life Insurers Deliver Agent Ease Of Use With E-Signatures, E-Apps And Automated Underwriting
      • CUNA Mutual Group Triples Annuity Sales With Gamified Sales Platform
  • Customer Insight
    • Top Story

      10 Top Tweets from #IASA2013
      Twitter activity around the IASA Educational Conference and Business Show increased this year with the promise of an iPad Mini to one prolific Tweeter. Here's some of the highlights.
    • Customer Insight News

      • Care West Insurance Engages Valen Analytics for Improve Underwriting Performance
      • Three Insurers Take The Plunge Into Telehealth
      • IPartners Signs South African Insurer
      More Customer Insight News
    • Quick Links

      • Big Data's Consumerization Angle
      • More Analytics of Ingenie Telematics Data on the Horizon
      • Is Big Data Insurers' Savior — Or Destroyer?
      • 5 Agenda Items for the 2013 IASA Annual Conference
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  • Analytics

      • Care West Insurance Engages Valen Analytics for Improve Underwriting Performance
        By Anthony O'Donnell | June 19, 2013
        The carrier will utilize Valen's Predict risk selection and pricing tool to drive improved underwriting for both existing business segments and in support of the carrier's growth strategy into other areas.
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      • Most Insurers Seek Integrated Core Platform: SAP Survey
        By Nathan Golia | June 18, 2013
        A survey of 203 insurance executives at the IASA conference this month provides a look into core replacement strategies.
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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 consumers' perception of the value of the insurance industry.
        Be the first to comment
      • Tech Must Play Critical Role in Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Debut
        By Anthony O'Donnell | June 14, 2013
        Start up ventures without legacy burdens enjoy a great opportunity for a forward-looking management team to really embed analytics and digital communications into their strategy, but others can leverage technology for specialty success, suggests Martina Conlon, Novarica.
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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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      • Scotland Maps Rural Farms With Open Source, Cloud
        By | 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.
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      • 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 | 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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      • ING Poland Drives Engagement with Customers and Associates
        By Anthony O'Donnell | June 10, 2013
        CIO Pawel Brzeksi and vendor technical lead Michal Majcher recounted ING Poland’s journey from case management to customer engagement at the PegaWORLD user group meeting at the Rosen Shingle Creek resort in Orlando, Fla.
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      • Big Data's Consumerization Angle
        By Kathy Burger | June 07, 2013
        As with mobile and social media, insurance company employees increasingly expect to have access to analytics and big data capabilities.
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      • Life Insurers Deliver Agent Ease Of Use With E-Signatures, E-Apps And Automated Underwriting
        By Anthony O'Donnell | June 06, 2013
        E-application, e-signature and automated underwriting capabilities help distributors sell life insurance.
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      • Big Decisions Drive Big Data Success
        By | June 05, 2013
        Before you embark on a big data project, it's important to define the problems you're trying to solve.
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      • More Analytics of Ingenie Telematics Data on the Horizon
        By Nathan Golia | June 05, 2013
        The U.K. company, which offers telematics-only insurance to young drivers, is working with SAS to do more analysis on its driving data.
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      • 5 Big Database Breaches Of Spring 2013
        By | June 04, 2013
        Learning from the most recent impactful breaches of 2013.
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      • Is Big Data Insurers' Savior — Or Destroyer?
        By Kathy Burger | June 04, 2013
        Industry experts are warning that if insurance companies don’t master analytics and big data, someone else will — presenting a devastating competitive challenge.
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      • Exigen Services, Baseline Telematics Partner
        By Nathan Golia | June 03, 2013
        The goal is for Exigen to help Baseline ease into new markets and gain new clients for its turnkey telematics-powered usage-based insurance program.
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      • 5 Agenda Items for the 2013 IASA Annual ConferenceSlideshow Article
        By Kathy Burger | May 31, 2013
        Insurance & Technology reached out to attendees of the upcoming 2013 IASA Conference in Washington, D.C., to find out what they’ll be looking out for at the industry trade show.
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      • Tweets of the Week: Telematics and Driverless Cars
        By Nathan Golia | May 31, 2013
        What once was a niche topic within certain insurance companies has blossomed to a growing industry, and everyone's got an opinion.
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      • Hartford Steam Boiler Partners on Blackout Risk Tech
        By Nathan Golia | May 30, 2013
        The Munich Re unit has partnered with Atmospheric and Environmental Research to develop a technology that insurers and clients can use to assess blackout risk.
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      • Big Data ROI Still Tough To Measure
        By | May 30, 2013
        Business leaders believe in big data's potential but are frustrated by lengthy projects and complicated tools, according to IDG/Kapow study.
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      • Big Data Analytics For The Masses
        By | May 29, 2013
        BigML's cloud-hosted machine-learning platform for predictive analytics is designed for everyone -- from data gurus to regular business folks.
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      • 3 Signs of Analytical Maturity
        By Gerald Shields, The Nolan Company | May 29, 2013
        Companies have been installing and utilizing business analytic tools for decades. An organization high on the analytics maturity scale should lower their continued investment in software and services while reaping greater value on their investment.
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      • Lincoln Financial Plans Big Policyholder Analytics Initiative
        By Nathan Golia | May 28, 2013
        The carrier will work with Towers Watson and Oliver Wyman to study the behavior of its variable annuity customers.
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      • 5 Ways To Get Big Data Plans Moving
        By | May 24, 2013
        Are your analytics efforts getting bogged down in all the data streaming in from social, apps, surveys and other channels? Here's how to get unstuck.
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      • 4 Key Benefits of SaaS Automated Systems for Life Insurers
        By Mitch Ludwig, Accenture Software. | May 23, 2013
        The potential benefits of automated systems for new business and underwriting – in terms of speed, accuracy, cost reduction and improved service – make for a compelling value proposition.
        Be the first to comment

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