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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
      More Architecture/Infrastructure News
    • Quick Links

      • 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
    • Top Story

      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
      More Policy Administration News
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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
    • Quick Links

      • 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

      Northwestern Mutual’s Enterprise Venture Fund Drives New Tech Adoption
      The Milwaukee, Wisc.-based life insurer has taken the risk out of leading-edge technology exploration by creating a dedicated fund and project team.
    • Management Strategies News

      • Farmers Taps Yahoo Vet to Lead Digital Strategy
      • Travelers Acquires Dominion of Canada
      • Aegon Appoints Americas Exec Global CTO
      More Management Strategies News
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      • IASA Trend Watch: Mobile
      • Jackson National Life's Rapid Growth Drives Facilities, IT Expansion
      • 5 Market Forces Driving Change in Insurance Carriers' Strategy — Deloitte
      • AXA's New Life HQ Places Premium on Innovation
  • 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
      More Regulation News
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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
    • Quick Links

      • 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

      • Three Insurers Take The Plunge Into Telehealth
      • IPartners Signs South African Insurer
      • 4 Reasons to Invest in Direct Commercial Insurance Sales Platforms
      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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  • Architecture/Infrastructure

      • 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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      • 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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      • 4 Things Insurers Really Want from MobileSlideshow Article
        By Nathan Golia | May 30, 2013
        FirstBest surveyed insurers to discover exactly what insurance company employees want in enterprise mobile capabilities.
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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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      • Bring Your Own Service: The Next Wave in Collaboration?
        By Kathy Burger | May 28, 2013
        A new Microsoft survey across 32 countries shows worker appetite for social tools is increasing. However, financial services firms may not be prepared to satisfy this appetite.
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      • 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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