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  • Infrastructure
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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
    • 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

      • 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
    • Top Story

      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
      More Risk Management News
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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
    • Quick Links

      • 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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  • Business Process Management

      • Selective Appoints New CIO
        By Kathy Burger | May 09, 2013
        Gordon Gaudet, most recently director and co-lead of Deloitte Consulting's Insurance Core Systems Transformation practice, will have responsibility for all IT operations at the P&C insurer.
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      • MphasiS Launches Billing-as-a-Service for Insurance Industry
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 07, 2013
        The solution will help carriers reduce costs while increasing business flexibility, improving customer service, the vendor asserts.
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      • What Commercial Insurers Can Learn from Manufacturers
        By Gail McGiffin, Ernst & Young LLP | May 06, 2013
        Advances in the manufacturing industry provide a model for insurers to build innovative products.
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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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      • Genworth Life Reduces Policy Cycle Times Nearly 70%
        By Anne Rawland Gabriel | April 19, 2013
        Genworth U.S. Life Companies reduces new policy cycle times from about 25 days to an average of eight by adopting Aplifi's multi-carrier electronic settlement platform.
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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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      • Making Claims Data Actionable for Litigation Management
        By Hans Bengard, TyMetrix | April 10, 2013
        Implementing a consolidated litigation management solution helps insurers trim claim expense costs, streamline and automate workflows, and enforce best practices throughout the claims discipline.
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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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      • 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 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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      • Insurance Customer Diversity Means Increased Expectations, Opportunities
        By Denise Garth, Innovation Group | February 10, 2013
        To determine growth opportunities, insurers need to gain customer insight on the varying heterogeneous segments within existing and new markets.
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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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      • Making ERM Part of an Insurer's Culture Requires People, Not Just Technology
        By Jeffery Brown, Infogix, Inc. | February 08, 2013
        Effective risk management is not about trying to avoid risk; it is about striking a balance between minimizing risk and maximizing reward.
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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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      • Balancing Creativity and Control: Bringing Process Discipline to Predictive Analytics
        By Rachel Alt-Simmons, SAS | January 21, 2013
        As competitive pressures increase the need for organizations to master analytics, internal analytic teams have increased their statistical sophistication, but are struggling to operationalize their insight.
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      • Zurich Taps Pegasystems for Commercial Underwriting Process Solution
        By Anthony O'Donnell | December 21, 2012
        The global insurer seeks to reduce the complexity of its employee work environment in order to enable staff to better serve customers.
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      • What Matters in IT: the Power to Change
        By Ravi Koka, Polaris Financial Technology | December 17, 2012
        How an emerging architectural approach can turn a ‘commodity’ into a strategic weapon.
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      • Manulife's Latest Move to Shore Up John Hancock: Tech Exec Moves to Ops
        By Nathan Golia | November 29, 2012
        Sebastian Pariath led a global IT transformation initiative for Manulife corporate before being named head of the company's US operations at John Hancock.
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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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      • Crum & Forster Sees New Policy Admin System as Key to Growth
        By Kathy Burger | November 09, 2012
        Crum & Forster to deploy Accenture Duck Creek P&C software to help streamline processes, better serve customers and drive growth.
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      • A 12 Point Checklist for Automated Underwriting
        By Gino B. DiGregorio and Charity McGill, Accenture | October 25, 2012
        Automated underwriting systems offer the promise of better information and greater efficiency But insurers considering such systems should prepare a checklist to make sure that the systems address the underwriters’ concerns.
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      • Elite 8 2012: Brian LeClaire Is On A Data-Driven Healthcare Mission
        By Nathan Golia | October 16, 2012
        Humana's Brian LeClaire leads an organization deeply invested in leveraging the power of big data and advanced analytics to improve healthcare outcomes.
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      • Elite 8 2012: Graeme Boddy Accelerates IT Development To Stay Ahead
        By Nathan Golia | October 15, 2012
        For Builders Mutual CIO Graeme Boddy, the recession offered an opportunity to build infrastructure for a new kind of insurance agent and customer. Today, the company is reaping the rewards.
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      • Modernization Choice: Replacement or Future-Proof Environment Leveraging Legacy Assets?
        By Wendy Corman, edgeIPK | October 05, 2012
        Considering the difficulty, length, cost, risk, and project metric failure rate of legacy replacement initiatives, more insurers should consider future-proofing strategies that leverage legacy systems over mere modernization.
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      • Donegal Insurance’s 7 Keys to Successful Acquisitions
        By Sanjay Pandey, CIO, Donegal Insurance Group | September 18, 2012
        Donegal Insurance Group CIO Sanjay Pandey shares seven guidelines that have emerged from the company’s successful technology integration of four new companies acquired during the last four years.
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