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3 Reasons Insurance Carriers Should Bet on Mobile Technology
May 22, 2013 @ 11:26 AM | By Tom Clayton- HP Exstream

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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A Comeback for Native Mobile Apps in Insurance?
May 07, 2013 @ 10:36 AM | By Nathan Golia

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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What Was Insurance Tech Like Before the PC?
April 12, 2013 @ 11:05 AM | By Nathan Golia

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
March 22, 2013 @ 14:32 PM | By Jeff Kaplan- Breakthrough Technology Group

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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What Matters in IT, Part 2: Solving Legacy with ACM
February 08, 2013 @ 12:41 PM | By By Ravi Koka- Polaris Financial Technology

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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5 Years, 5 Top Disruptors, One 800lb Analytic Gorilla - Novarica Study
February 01, 2013 @ 12:24 PM | By Anthony O'Donnell

Big Data and analytics are implicated in four of the respondents' top five business disruptors and explicitly identified as comprising the fifth.

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What Two Doctors' Offices Can Tell Us About The Motivation to Innovate
January 10, 2013 @ 11:31 AM | By Nathan Golia

Identifying the time to make innovative, forward-looking changes to IT infrastructure before the opportunity passes will help leading insurers differentiate themselves.

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Windows 8: 3 Items for Insurers to Watch
December 10, 2012 @ 12:32 PM | By Nathan Golia

Windows 8 offers some attractive features that savvy insurers can take advantage of, including telematics, portability and legacy support.

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5 Reasons Why Carriers Must Embrace Cloud Computing
November 12, 2012 @ 15:00 PM | By Dave Shively- MphasiS

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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Cloud Lets Smaller Insurers Future-Proof Their Infrastructure and Leapfrog the Competition
November 08, 2012 @ 12:53 PM | By Anil Annadata- CodeObjects

Cloud-based software delivery methods enable insurers to quickly respond to new windows of opportunity, niche markets, and achieve heightened levels of customer service.

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Zuckerberg Pans HTML5 for Mobile Development: Is He Right?
September 14, 2012 @ 13:00 PM | By Nathan Golia

The Facebook impresario recently classified the social network's use of an HTML5-based mobile app as "the biggest mistake we've made." Is he right?

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GoDaddy Outage a Cautionary Tale for Cloud Enthusiasts
September 14, 2012 @ 12:04 PM | By Anthony O'Donnell

In order to be competitive, insurers need to take advantage of the economic benefits of the cloud, but they should discriminate carefully in their use of public, semi-private and private cloud options.

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HP Offers That Cloud Thing, The Onion Reports
August 21, 2012 @ 09:29 AM | By Anthony O'Donnell

Additional features offered to consumers include crowdsourcing, app, all the Gs, and available capacity up to one thousand.

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Data Conversion Should Be Treated as a Separate Strategic Initiative
August 06, 2012 @ 14:18 PM | By Steve Forte- OneShield

Given the importance of successful data migration to core system replacements and consolidations, and other major projects, it should be treated as a distinct strategic initiative rather than merely a subordinate task.

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Why Big Is Bad When It Comes To Data
July 20, 2012 @ 11:21 AM | By Patrick Houston- InformationWeek

Calling it "big data" doesn't do it justice. Gushing data would be far more accurate.

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5 Keys to Fast, Successful New Tech Deployments
July 19, 2012 @ 09:48 AM | By Steven Callahan- Robert E. Nolan

While many companies are approaching moving new technologies to market under the umbrella of pilots, the short-term characteristics of those new capabilities require a more diligent approach. By following straightforward guidelines, greater success with less pain can be achieved.

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Teradata's Insurance Leaders on Big Data
July 18, 2012 @ 11:33 AM | By Nathan Golia

John Burke, VP of the financial services practice for Teradata, and his colleague Peter Hughes shared some opinions on big data yesterday at the Insurance & Technology offices.

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Is Insurance Always a Low-Touch Industry for Mobile?
June 21, 2012 @ 12:07 PM | By Nathan Golia

Conventional wisdom states that insurers aren't reached as much through the mobile channel as other financial services sectors. But there's one unique aspect of the insurance industry for which that is not the case.

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Kemper Direct CIO Evaluates 4 Mobile Development Strategies
June 06, 2012 @ 02:25 AM | By Nathan Golia

At the IASA conference in San Diego, Kemper Direct CIO John Elcock laid out the pros and cons of four ways to develop mobile experiences.

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ACORD LOMA Notes: Hyland Emphasizes Strategic Partnership, Mobile
May 18, 2012 @ 01:35 AM | By Anthony O'Donnell

Hyland's Ed McQuiston sees opportunities for success in the background of core system modernization efforts, discusses customer appetite for guidance on mobility.

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