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  • Infrastructure
    • Top Story

      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
      More Architecture/Infrastructure News
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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
      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

      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
    • Quick Links

      • 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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  • Content Management

      • 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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      • 3 Ways to Drive Sales Via Agent Social Media
        By Clara Shih, Hearsay Social | April 28, 2013
        Successful agents differentiate themselves by building social media best practices into their regular routine to prospect, connect, and grow their customer base — and reap the rewards of earned loyalty.
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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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      • 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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      • 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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      • 5 Tips for Tackling the Insurance Industry's Biggest Marketing Challenges
        By Jon Malenfant, DataXu | January 25, 2013
        As insurers strive to improve customer prospecting, cross-selling and branding, they increasingly are turning to digital marketing management solutions.
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      • Customer Experience, Analytics and Cloud Will Drive Insurance Industry Growth — I&T Summit Panel
        By Anthony O'Donnell | November 08, 2012
        Other important factors in growth will be cultural diversity, attraction of workforce talent, and a better understanding of one’s genuine differentiators, according to a panel of winners of Insurance & Technology’s Elite 8 Award and industry vendors.
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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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      • Andrew Made the Insurance Industry Stronger: Marsh's Pieroni
        By Kathy Burger | August 24, 2012
        The scope, destruction and costs of Hurricane Andrew in 1992 forced the insurance industry to revamp everything from risk forecasting to claims management. Marsh's Chief Operating Officer William Pieroni says technology has been key to helping insurers up their game when it comes to catastrophe response.
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      • Allstate Crowdsources to Test Usage-Based Insurance Product
        By Kathy Burger | July 25, 2012
        Allstate crowdsources to test usage-based insurance product; employee, agency owner testing of Drive Wise product will provide telematics feedback about driving habits.
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      • Life Insurers' 6 Keys to Strategic Cost Reduction
        By Brian DeMaster, Accenture | July 24, 2012
        Many life insurers have already undertaken targeted cost-reduction initiatives, but Accenture identifies six areas where many companies can still achieve major cost reduction while improving the strength and flexibility of their product offering.
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      • Universal Group Upgrading to New Cover-All Policy Platform for Commercial Lines Underwriting and Rating
        By Kathy Burger | July 23, 2012
        Universal Group upgrading to New Cover-All policy platform for commercial lines underwriting and rating; San Juan-based P&C carrier aims for improved efficiency and growth.
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      • Data Discoveries and Analytics Unite to Ignite Innovative Thinking in Financial Services
        By Stuart Rose, SAS | June 08, 2012
        The use of statistics, data and analytics to evaluate everything from baseball players to insurance claims to political sentiment was the focus of a recent SAS financial services event.
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      • ACORD LOMA Notes: Hyland Emphasizes Strategic Partnership, Mobile
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 18, 2012
        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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      • Health Insurers' Customer Communications Is Fractured
        By Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek | April 27, 2012
        Most health plans say they want to improve customer communications, but they have not developed IT systems needed to send reminders to patients to take meds or start exercising, IDC Health Insights reports.
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      • 3 Keys to Turning the Potential Pain of Consumerization Into Pleasure
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 19, 2012
        Consumer adoption of mobile, social media and other new technologies requires insurance CIOs to recast their technology architectures and reassert their strategic role. I&T offers three keys to turning consumerization into a competitive advantage.
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