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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.
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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.
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      • Capital Insurance Goes Native for Mobile Experience
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      • After a Decade of M&A, CFG Emerges Unified on Sapiens ALIS Policy Administration System
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      • Moore Tornado May Spur CAT Reserving Regulatory Reform
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      • Moore, Oklahoma Tornado Most Deadly Since Joplin, Missouri 2011
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      • RMS Debuts the RMS (one) Real-Time Exposure and Risk Management Environment
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      • 4 Ways Driverless Cars Are Poised to Shake up Insurance
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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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      • Can Electric Toothbrushes Yield Insurance-Relevant Data? One Company Thinks So
        By Nathan Golia | May 20, 2013
        Per AdAge, at least one insurance company has partnered with an electric toothbrush manufacturer to share brushing data.
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      • 4 Ways Driverless Cars Are Poised to Shake up InsuranceSlideshow Article
        By Nathan Golia | May 17, 2013
        Driverless cars are closer to reality than you think. Here are some impacts they might have on the insurance industry.
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      • 4 Steps to Incorporate Big Data Into Insurance Marketing
        By Kristen Hambelton, Neolane | May 17, 2013
        While insurance marketers have long used data to segment and target customers, analyzing and acting on this data offers even more.
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      • CUNA Mutual Uses SAS for TruStage Agency Customer Contact Strategy
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 15, 2013
        Using advanced regression techniques, CUNA Mutual has developed improved models to target customers in direct business, resulting in better customer satisfaction, increased revenue and reduced cost.
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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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      • Information as a Game Changer: Actuarial Analytics — Score Keeping, or Trusted Advice?
        By Paul Delbridge, Mark Purowitz, Punita Gandhi and Caitlin Marcoux, PwC | May 10, 2013
        There is a great opportunity to more effectively utilize actuaries’ advanced analytics and modelling expertise, and thereby change actuaries’ role from scorekeeping to one in which they create a significant, information-driven competitive advantage for the organization.
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      • 6 Trends That Emerged At ACORD LOMA 2013Slideshow Article
        By Nathan Golia | May 10, 2013
        The insurance technology industry's spring conference season kicked off with this past week's 2013 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum in Las Vegas. Based on the Insurance & Technology team’s conversations with exhibitors, speakers, analysts and other attendees, here are some of the themes we can expect to see emerge this year.
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      • Another Case for Native Apps
        By Nathan Golia | May 08, 2013
        Consumers want anytime, anywhere access to products including insurance, but don't want to waste space on their devices. Can insurers make the case?
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      • Jawbone's BodyMedia Buy: Wearable Monitors Heat Up
        By | May 02, 2013
        Investors eye the growing wearable health device market as sensors become more sophisticated and deliver more health information to consumers.
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      • Signal to Noise: Nate Silver Offers Lesson on Controlling Big Data Complexity
        By Stuart Rose, SAS | April 30, 2013
        Simply adding more variables can amplify meaningless feedback and add complexity. Profitable use of big data for improved pricing accuracy and enhanced customer experience will require isolating predictive factors.
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      • Valen Analytics Launches Expanded InsureRight Platform for Enhanced Underwriting Performance
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 30, 2013
        The newly rebranded vendor's InsureRight offering, now covering all lines of business, is designed to give carriers statistically valid portfolio insights that they can distribute to individual underwriters in a simple, easy-to-understand language.
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      • Q&A: Republic Indemnity CIO Innovates on a Tight Budget
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 29, 2013
        Rao Tadepalli, CIO of Republic Indemnity, has found ways to innovate in a resource-constrained environment, finding efficiencies through digitizing documentation and improving efficiencies through core system transformation and process reengineering.
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      • EHR Vendor, Insurer Agree On Two-Way Data Exchange
        By | April 22, 2013
        Electronic health record vendor Greenway and insurer Florida Blue strike deal to use Availity as conduit for care summaries that providers need and EHR data that insurers want.
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      • Allstate Introduces App for Usage-Based Insurance
        By Nathan Golia | April 15, 2013
        The Drivewise app provides feedback based on data collected by the program's plug-in device.
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      • 3 Must-Haves for Insurance Data Quality
        By Thomas Schutz, Experian QAS North America | April 12, 2013
        The increasing number of channels is hurting data quality within insurance organizations, 94% suspect their customer and prospect data might be inaccurate in some way.
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      • ISO Releases Advanced Rating Kit for Auto
        By Nathan Golia | April 10, 2013
        The bundled offering incorporates predictive modeling tools.
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      • Information as a Game Changer: Analytics for Improving Insurance Customer Retention
        By Anand S. Rao, Punita Gandhi, Scott Busse and Fred Cripe, PwC | April 05, 2013
        Insurers grappling with high attrition rates should invest in developing shopper/switcher insights for their customer base via data analytics.
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      • Pentaho, ThinkBig Tackle 'Internet Of Things' Analysis
        By | April 05, 2013
        Analytics trendsetter Think Big uses Pentaho open-source tools to create predictive models using Hadoop and NoSQL databases.
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      • The 10 Requirements for Successful Mobile Billing & Payment
        By Sanjay Kumar, Online Resources Corporation | April 03, 2013
        Consumers demand for options, flexibility and ease-of-use in their billing and payment has a comprehensive and seamless mobile bill payment experience a mission-critical business requirement.
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      • Telematics-Based ISO Rule Gaining Regulatory Approval
        By Nathan Golia | April 02, 2013
        The GeoMetric rule allows insurers to adjust premium based on where a vehicle is driven most often, not just where it is garaged.
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      • CNO Financial Group Appointments Support Customer Focus, Growth
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 29, 2013
        Changes at CNO will support the company's focus on the customer by creating a strategic marketing organization that leverages customer analytics, leads, and products across the enterprise.
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      • CUNA Mutual Pursues Growth With Data-Driven Marketing
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 28, 2013
        Financial services company's strategic conception of data underlies its multichannel, multiproduct and customer-centric growth aspirations.
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      • EMC, VMware Prep Big Data Analytics Spinoff
        By | March 28, 2013
        Pivotal unit, set to launch April 1, will integrate an unusual and powerful set of software components into a single big data platform.
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      • How Big Data Opens Up More Product Options to Insurers
        By Nathan Golia | March 27, 2013
        In a world where some consumers are as curious about their own data as insurers are, carriers can use their analytical experience to tailor products to that need.
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