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      3 Reasons Insurance Carriers Should Bet on Mobile Technology
      In order to remain profitable, productive and competitive, insurers have seen the need to develop mobile capabilities to meet rapidly changing customer expectations.
    • Architecture/Infrastructure News

      • A Comeback for Native Mobile Apps in Insurance?
      • Insurance CIOs Are Reshaping Their IT Organizations to Fit the Times
      • Fireman's Fund's Three D's: Demand, Design, Delivery
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      • Managing Marketing's IT Spend
      • What Big Data Means For Infrastructure Costs
      • What Was Insurance Tech Like Before the PC?
      • 5 Issues For Insurers Migrating to Hosted Private Cloud
  • 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

      • Capital Insurance Goes Native for Mobile Experience
      • Guidewire-Millbrook Deal Signals Value of Data for Differentiation
      • Motorists Replaces Legacy Reinsurance System With Effisoft's WebXL
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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
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      Duck Creek Releases EXAMPLE Platform 4.1
      The new release will provide enhanced performance capabilities, owing to new efficiencies designed into EXAMPLE Platform 4.1's core infrastructure, according to the vendor.
    • Claims News

      • Moore Tornado May Spur CAT Reserving Regulatory Reform
      • Bulletin: Late May Tornadoes Could Hit $5 Billion in Insured Losses
      • Moore, Oklahoma Tornado Most Deadly Since Joplin, Missouri 2011
      More Claims News
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      • Poor Insurance Customer Experience May Drive Away Customers - Capgemini Report
      • Inside the Sandy Claims Response: From the Front Lines
      • Unlocking the Door to Identity Management
      • Data Discoveries and Analytics Unite to Ignite Innovative Thinking in Financial Services
  • Management Strategies
    • Top Story

      New AXA Tech CTO Vincent Cohan Drives Global Focus
      Moving away from a more regional orientation, AXA’s IT services organization will provide worldwide network connectivity and management of IT assets, hardware and software, change control and incident management.
    • Management Strategies News

      • Aegon Appoints Americas Exec Global CTO
      • Aflac Announces Management Changes
      • Deloitte Appoints New Insurance Head
      More Management Strategies News
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      • Voelker Keeps Progressive on Cutting Edge
      • ING Names Former AIG Exec CEO of U.S. Insurance
      • The Hanover Insurance Group Sells First Allmerica Financial Life Insurance Company
      • Insurance CIOs Embrace Their Role as Marketers
  • Risk Management
    • Top Story

      5 Ways Insurance Companies Can Make Mobile Capabilities More Secure for Policyholders
      Mobile capabilities for policyholders are table stakes. But serious questions remain about the security of the most popular consumer smartphone platforms. I&T checked in with the executives who live and breathe data security to find out how they balance cutting-edge mobile service offerings with security.
    • Risk Management News

      • Lincoln Financial Group Names New VP & Managing Director Of Portfolio Management Analytics
      • Aetna Names J.P. Morgan Vet New CISO
      • RMS Debuts the RMS (one) Real-Time Exposure and Risk Management Environment
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      • Technology and History Accelerate Insurers' Risk Management Evolution
      • Genworth Financial Appoints New Chief Risk Officer and New Chief Actuary
      • Algorithmics Acquires Actuarial Software Solution Provider VIPitech from Towers Watson
      • 10 Big Data Migration Mistakes
  • Regulation
    • Top Story

      Generali Deutschland prepares for Solvency II with ERM platform
      Generali Deutschland prepares to meet new regulatory mandates by centralizing and streamlining actuarial functions with SunGard’s iWorks ERM Platform.
    • Regulation News

      • Moore Tornado May Spur CAT Reserving Regulatory Reform
      • Providence Health Plans Selects Colibrio's Tuo for Private Exchange
      • 6 Best Practices for Implementing Finance Software
      More Regulation News
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      • Extending Underwriters’ Reach With Intelligent Underwriting
      • 8 Insurance Industry Impacts of Hurricane Andrew
      • Algorithmics Acquires Actuarial Software Solution Provider VIPitech from Towers Watson
      • Customer Insight A Key Competitive Advantage
  • Distribution
    • Top Story

      Agencyport CEO Identifies Barriers to Best Agent-Carrier Workflow
      Both vendors and insurers need to do a better job of innovating in order to provide the best experience to their agents, says Agencyport CEO Steve Hauck.
    • Distribution News

      • Progressive Wants to Innovate in Commercial Auto, Too
      • Protective Life Deploys iPipeline's iGO Drop Ticket to Streamline Agent Sales Process
      • Providence Health Plans Selects Colibrio's Tuo for Private Exchange
      More Distribution News
    • Quick Links

      • Unlocking the Door to Identity Management
      • AXA Equitable Launches Free iPhone Apps Designed to Help Women Track Financial Goals
      • Online Insurance Quote Applications Now Initiate a Majority of New Policy Sales
      • One in 4 Want to Close Life Insurance Sales Online: LIMRA
  • Customer Insight
    • Top Story

      XL Adopts SAS Visual Analytics to Get a Jump on Big Data's Potential
      The SAS tool will foster a partnership of exploration between XL's analytics team and underwriters to leverage data for "enormous" competitive advantage and shareholder value, says XL SVP.
    • Customer Insight News

      • 4 Ways Driverless Cars Are Poised to Shake up Insurance
      • CUNA Mutual Uses SAS for TruStage Agency Customer Contact Strategy
      • 6 Trends That Emerged At ACORD LOMA 2013
      More Customer Insight News
    • Quick Links

      • Poor Insurance Customer Experience May Drive Away Customers - Capgemini Report
      • Data Discoveries and Analytics Unite to Ignite Innovative Thinking in Financial Services
      • In Depth: New York Life's Mobile Access Strategy
      • How Big Data Opens Up More Product Options to Insurers
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  • Architecture/Infrastructure

      • 3 Reasons Insurance Carriers Should Bet on Mobile Technology
        By Tom Clayton, HP Exstream | May 22, 2013
        In order to remain profitable, productive and competitive, insurers have seen the need to develop mobile capabilities to meet rapidly changing customer expectations.
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      • Enterprise Data Centers: A Buyer's Market
        By | May 16, 2013
        What can you do with the money you'll save as data center needs decline, thanks to server and compute efficiency advances?
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      • A Comeback for Native Mobile Apps in Insurance?
        By Nathan Golia | May 07, 2013
        One vendor at ACORD LOMA says insurers should embrace the app model even though it can be difficult to encourage policyholder adoption.
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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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      • Fireman's Fund's Three D's: Demand, Design, Delivery
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 06, 2013
        CIO Alexander Bockelmann shares three key strategies for optimizing efficiency and effectiveness.
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      • What To Look For at ACORD LOMA 2013Slideshow Article
        By Nathan Golia | May 03, 2013
        Insurance & Technology reached out to attendees of the upcoming 2013 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum, the first of this spring's trade shows, to find out what they will be on the lookout for in Las Vegas.
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      • Internet Of Things Faces CIO Skeptics
        By | May 02, 2013
        Majority of CIOs in six countries queried in SAP study see potential in the Internet of Things, but U.S. and U.K. respondents show more doubt than their peers.
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      • Managing Marketing's IT Spend
        By Nathan Golia | April 25, 2013
        With so much marketing budget devoted to technological initiatives, IT needs a clear strategy to effectively manage those digital marketing dollars.
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      • What Big Data Means For Infrastructure Costs
        By Nathan Golia | April 24, 2013
        Most insurance companies have at least one big data effort under way, if not more. The cloud can help meet those needs without breaking the bank.
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      • ACORD Names Chief Standards Officer
        By Kathy Burger | April 23, 2013
        Former Zurich General Insurance executive Monique Hesseling joins the industry standards group as VP and chief standards officer, a new position.
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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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      • 5 Issues For Insurers Migrating to Hosted Private Cloud
        By Jeff Kaplan, Breakthrough Technology Group | March 22, 2013
        Insurers rightly value flexibility, cost savings and fault resilience of moving to a hosted private cloud via managed service provider, but they should be prepared to address five key issues.
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      • A Better Business Case For Big Data
        By Kathy Burger | March 22, 2013
        Many factors contribute to the continuing difficulty insurers have in making an effective business case for big data investments.
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      • Celina Insurance is Launch Client for IBM 'Social E-mail'
        By Nathan Golia | March 22, 2013
        The new platform aims to integrate e-mail in social collaboration.
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      • Gauging The Benefits Of In-Memory Computing For Insurance
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 21, 2013
        SAP has made a splash with its Hana in-memory database technology, but its utility for insurance will depend on carriers' need for speed.
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      • Big Data Not Yet A Best Practice In Insurance
        By Kathy Burger | March 20, 2013
        Big data is a hot topic across the insurance industry, but many carriers are stymied by the challenges of making a business case for the types of systems and infrastructure investments required to support a big data strategy, says Martina Conlon, a principal in the insurance practice of Novarica.
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      • Insurers and Other Health Organizations Go Big For Analytics
        By | March 19, 2013
        Half of providers and payers see advanced analytics as their top investment priority, says IDC survey.
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      • HTML5 Can Solve BYOD App Mess, Sencha Bets
        By | March 15, 2013
        Thanks to BYOD, app deployment has become substantially more complicated. Sencha's HTML5 tools aim to restore order.
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      • SaaS Speeds U.K. Insurer's IT Overhaul
        By | March 13, 2013
        Direct Line Group finds the cloud its safest bet to quickly establish a separate HR system before separating from its parent company.
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      • Is Your Data Big Enough For Big Data?
        By | March 12, 2013
        Convinced you need a big data platform to manage your organization's expanding volumes of information? A traditional database may be good enough.
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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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      • IBM CEO (and Former Insurance Head) Rometty Shares Vision Of Big Data Era
        By | March 08, 2013
        IBM CEO Ginni Rometty says big data and predictive decisions will reshape organizations, and computers that learn, like Watson, will be tech's next big wave — specifically in insurance.
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      • Big Data Helps Kaiser Close Healthcare Gaps
        By | March 08, 2013
        Analytics from massive clinical data repository are central to closing gaps in care, HIMSS attendees told.
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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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      • What Matters in IT, Part 2: Solving Legacy with ACM
        By Ravi Koka, Polaris Financial Technology | February 08, 2013
        While other approaches may ultimately provide a technical solution, continuous migration is the only practical way to deal with the legacy dilemma.
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