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      • Jackson National Life's Rapid Growth Drives Facilities, IT Expansion
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 17, 2013
        As part of his effort to accommodate an IT organization under increasing demand, CIO Mark Clark envisions the creation of an innovation-friendly workspace to foster collaborative work.
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      • Security First Takes to Social Media for Insurance Claims
        By Mitch Wagner, Internet Evolution | May 17, 2013
        Security First is using big-data cloud social media analytics software from IBM and partner Integritie to analyze incoming messages sent by email and social media.
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      • MetLife Uses NoSQL For Customer Service Breakthrough
        By | May 14, 2013
        MetLife uses 10Gen's MongoDB database to quickly integrate disparate data and deliver a consolidated view of the customer.
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      • Selective Announces Executive Promotions in Claims and IT
        By Kathy Burger | May 13, 2013
        Among a roster of recent appointments and promotions announced by Selective Insurance were George Neale as SVP, Chief Claims Officer, and John Bresney as SVP, Application Delivery Services.
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      • Insurance CIOs Are Reshaping Their IT Organizations to Fit the Times
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 06, 2013
        A combination of economic, cultural and technological forces is making insurance CIOs rethink the configuration of their IT organizations.
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      • World Wide Web At 20: 12 Milestones
        By | May 03, 2013
        Two decades ago, the first Web page came to life. These milestones for users and developers have made the Web what it is today.
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      • Erie Names The Hartford, USAA Vet IT SVP
        By Nathan Golia | April 24, 2013
        The company chose Ruben Fechner as SVP of business applications and support.
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      • Xuber Launches in U.S. in Response to Demand for Modern Commercial Lines Solutions
        By | April 17, 2013
        The software business of Xchanging is offering an end-to-end module-based solution built on a single data model.
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      • What Was Insurance Tech Like Before the PC?
        By Nathan Golia | April 12, 2013
        A respondent to a Reddit thread on the pre-PC era provides a window into how billing and accounting systems were developed on punch cards.
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      • Business Frameworks – Transformational Acceleration Pedal
        By Pierre Gagné, Insurance Frameworks Inc. | April 08, 2013
        Over the last few years, there has been increasingly industry buzz about capability models, enterprise business frameworks, reference models, etc. What are they, how can organizations benefit from them, and what types of projects can leverage them?
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      • IT’s Record of Failure Is Worse Than You Think
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 14, 2013
        The record revealed by investigations into IT performance is bad. Unfortunately, according to author and former Guardian Life CIO Frank Wander, the truth is even worse.
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      • You Need to Replace Your Policy Admin System — But Are You Ready?
        By Andy Scurto, ISCS | March 13, 2013
        Deciding that the time is right for core policy system replacement isn’t the same as being ready to do so, but mistaking the two is a common trap for insurers to fall into.
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      • What’s Driving IT’s Record of Failure — And What Can Fix It?
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 10, 2013
        A former insurance CIO traces the endemic failure of IT projects — and the economic waste it implies — to the imposition of an industrial process on the social phenomenon of knowledge work.
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      • What Matters in IT: Part 3, Business Impact of Architecture for Continuous Migration (ACM)
        By Ravi Koka, Polaris Financial Technology | March 08, 2013
        The paramount IT tasks for every firm should be to shift to the most agile possible approach for dealing with legacy issues, thereby reducing legacy spending, and then devote the freed-up funds to innovation instead of to overhead.
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      • Q&A: Progressive's Usage-Based Insurance Licensing Program Explained
        By Nathan Golia | March 05, 2013
        SMA's Mark Breading answers Insurance & Technology's burning questions about exactly how Progressive's licensing offer for usage-based insurance affects other interested carriers.
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      • When Designing Insurance Apps, Consider the Intent
        By Eugene Lee, Guidewire | February 15, 2013
        Insurance apps, intended to give insurers easier access to data, haven't made enough of an impact to be deemed particularly useful. Why?
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      • Even Grandmothers Can Be Online Trolls
        By | February 07, 2013
        U.K. company Saga shutters its social media site for seniors after online trolls produce a stream of abuse and mayhem.
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      • 2013 a Pivotal Year for Insurance CIOs: Gartner
        By Anthony O'Donnell | January 29, 2013
        Insurance CIOs must begin to address legacy issues and skill deficits in order to be able to meet the service, operational efficiency and profitability demands of the next decade.
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      • 5 Ways Solid Portals Help Customer Centricity
        By Steve Hauck, co-CEO, Agencyport | December 21, 2012
        Web services help insurers stay connected to their customers even while back-end legacy systems undergo long, arduous replacement efforts.
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      • How Insurers Can Prevent Post-Catastrophe Blowback
        By Nathan Golia | December 14, 2012
        The insurance industry's reputation is taking a post-Sandy hit as vocal policyholders express their opinions that their claims are undervalued. It's easy to prevent this.
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      • Generali Deutschland prepares for Solvency II with ERM platform
        By Anne Rawland Gabriel | December 07, 2012
        Generali Deutschland prepares to meet new regulatory mandates by centralizing and streamlining actuarial functions with SunGard’s iWorks ERM Platform.
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      • Erie Insurance Makes Website Disability Friendly
        By Nathan Golia | November 30, 2012
        New features from a partnership with Essential Accessibility will make it easier for disabled people to buy insurance online.
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      • Making Your Mainframe Work Smarter, Not Harder
        By Steve Biondi, Micro Focus | November 27, 2012
        Rather than rip-and-replace, optimize your mainframe MIPS for key applications and understanding where you can redeploy MIPS-heavy workloads to alternative, more cost-effective platforms without introducing significant risk.
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      • Insurers See Need to Modernize Claims Capabilities, Cloud Will Help - Accenture Survey
        By Anthony O'Donnell | November 20, 2012
        Insurers have failed to achieve the promise of modern, configurable claims systems in significant measure, but cloud is likely to help carriers to leapfrog to future-proofed modern capabilities that can take advantage of data analytics.
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      • 5 Reasons Why Carriers Must Embrace Cloud Computing
        By Dave Shively, MphasiS | November 12, 2012
        Cloud-based solutions are allowing traditional carriers to close the technology gap and get back into the game. Not only do they empower carriers to quickly get on par with their new entrant competitors, they are also able to keep pace as technology evolves, argues Dave Shively of MphasiS.
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