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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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      • Black Swan Events Give Insurers Occasion to Improve Service and Efficiency
        By Mark Foster-Collier and Jonathan Roberts, Wipro | February 26, 2013
        With extraordinary events becoming common, insurers can create cost savings and operational efficiencies and customer service improvements by integrating disaster response with day-to-day operations.
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      • Realizing Insurance IT Value Requires New Tools, New Mindset
        By Bruce Brodie and Paul Frank, PwC | February 12, 2013
        Insurers typically spend three to five percent of their revenue on IT, but they spend only a very small fraction of that on determining if they are maximizing their investment. That needs to change.
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      • Why Your Data Center Costs Will Drop
        By | January 25, 2013
        Here's how to take advantage of the latest technologies to boost server efficiency as well as performance.
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      • Crum & Forster Creates Analytics VP Position
        By Nathan Golia | January 24, 2013
        The new hire will assist the company's underwriting, marketing, and claims operations with data mining and predictive modeling.
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      • Tech Vital for Insurers to Meet Equity Analysts' Expectations
        By John Del Santo and Thomas Meyer, Accenture | January 15, 2013
        Technology is one of four key elements that both P&C and life insurers must get right to grow at the rates that equity analysts – and, by extension, the worldwide investment community – expect.
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      • Battle Lines Drawn on Insurance Data Use
        By Nathan Golia | January 15, 2013
        Some companies vow to protect consumers from use of their personal data by insurers.
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      • Data Security Will be 2013's Story of the Year
        By Nathan Golia | December 20, 2012
        Channel and device proliferation, as well as hunger for big data, mean insurers must be more vigilant than ever about securing policyholders' personal information.
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