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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
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      • 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
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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.
    • 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
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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
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      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
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      • 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
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      CIOs Must Be Leaders, Not Mere Technocrats
      Technical competence is never enough, at least not for inspiring excellence in execution in others, helping them to be better than the teams you're competing against.
    • Management Strategies News

      • Farmers Taps Yahoo Vet to Lead Digital Strategy
      • Travelers Acquires Dominion of Canada
      • Aegon Appoints Americas Exec Global CTO
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      • Northwestern Mutual’s Enterprise Venture Fund Drives New Tech Adoption
      • IASA Trend Watch: Mobile
      • Jackson National Life's Rapid Growth Drives Facilities, IT Expansion
      • 5 Market Forces Driving Change in Insurance Carriers' Strategy — Deloitte
  • 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
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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
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      • 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

      • Care West Insurance Engages Valen Analytics for Improve Underwriting Performance
      • Three Insurers Take The Plunge Into Telehealth
      • IPartners Signs South African Insurer
      More Customer Insight News
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      • 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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  • Data Warehouse

      • IPartners Signs South African Insurer
        By Zarna Patel | June 11, 2013
        Hannover Re subsidiary Compass Insurance will use iPartners for BI and data warehousing.
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      • Big Data's Consumerization Angle
        By Kathy Burger | June 07, 2013
        As with mobile and social media, insurance company employees increasingly expect to have access to analytics and big data capabilities.
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      • Big Decisions Drive Big Data Success
        By | June 05, 2013
        Before you embark on a big data project, it's important to define the problems you're trying to solve.
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      • Is Big Data Insurers' Savior — Or Destroyer?
        By Kathy Burger | June 04, 2013
        Industry experts are warning that if insurance companies don’t master analytics and big data, someone else will — presenting a devastating competitive challenge.
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      • Big Data ROI Still Tough To Measure
        By | May 30, 2013
        Business leaders believe in big data's potential but are frustrated by lengthy projects and complicated tools, according to IDG/Kapow study.
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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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      • 3 Signs of Analytical Maturity
        By Gerald Shields, The Nolan Company | May 29, 2013
        Companies have been installing and utilizing business analytic tools for decades. An organization high on the analytics maturity scale should lower their continued investment in software and services while reaping greater value on their investment.
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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 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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      • 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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      • Agile Financial Management: Re-visioning the Budget Process
        By Peter Witham, UNIT4 Business Software | May 15, 2013
        To create an accurate budget you need visibility into a single set of data and the ability to see clear across your organization – regardless of geographic locations, currencies, and other barriers.
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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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      • 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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      • 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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      • 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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      • Michigan Blues Joins Statewide Health Information Exchange
        By | April 04, 2013
        State's dominant insurer seeks clinical and administrative data for care management and reporting to state health insurance exchange.
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      • Insurer Chief Risk Officers' Profiles Rise with Prominence of Tech: E&Y
        By Nathan Golia | March 19, 2013
        Increased risk exposure to risk due to social media and channel proliferation, as well as a focus on data and analytics projects in the "big data" era, is raising the profile of the chief risk officer within the insurance enterprise, according to Ernst & Young.
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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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      • New Technologies Require New Organizational Approaches
        By | March 11, 2013
        The cloud, mobile and big data movements put a premium on speed and innovation, not just efficiency and security.
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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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      • IBM CEO (and Former Insurance Head) Rometty Shares Vision Of Big Data Era
        By | March 08, 2013
        IBM CEO Ginni Rometty says big data and predictive decisions will reshape organizations, and computers that learn, like Watson, will be tech's next big wave — specifically in insurance.
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      • Big Data Helps Kaiser Close Healthcare Gaps
        By | March 08, 2013
        Analytics from massive clinical data repository are central to closing gaps in care, HIMSS attendees told.
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      • Aetna Consolidates Health IT Assets
        By | February 28, 2013
        New Healthagen business unit will sell integrated care coordination, population health management, physician workflow transformation services.
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