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      • Guidewire-Millbrook Deal Signals Value of Data for Differentiation
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 14, 2013
        Guidewire has characterized the deal as providing the ability to help customers to accelerate replacement of their legacy core systems and to improve management of operational data in their policy, billing, and claims functions.
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      • Selective Announces Executive Promotions in Claims and IT
        By Kathy Burger | May 13, 2013
        Among a roster of recent appointments and promotions announced by Selective Insurance were George Neale as SVP, Chief Claims Officer, and John Bresney as SVP, Application Delivery Services.
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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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      • 6 Best Practices for Implementing Finance Software
        By Kathy Burger | May 07, 2013
        UNIT4 Business Software offers guidelines for implementing finance accounting software to support growth.
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      • Insurance CIOs Should Turn Conventional Transformational Wisdom on its Head
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 03, 2013
        X by 2's Ram Sundaram says insurers pursuing IT transformation should do the opposite of five rules that represent conventional wisdom.
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      • New Novarica Analyst From CIO Side
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 02, 2013
        In his new role as analyst, former Navy Mutual CIO Tom Benton will report on core system transformation, IT strategy and project management, with a focus on life and annuity carriers.
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      • Ebix Acquired by Goldman Sachs Affiliate
        By Nathan Golia | May 01, 2013
        The Atlanta-based company provides e-commerce software to insurers.
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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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      • 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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      • 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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      • Top Issues of 2013: Risk Management, Strategy and Operations — ReportSlideshow Article
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 05, 2013
        PwC identifies several key challenges that insurers will face during 2013, in areas such as risk management, strategy and operations.
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      • Maintaining Credibility in Project Estimation: Beware the Fudge Factor
        By Bruce F. Broussard, Jr., Insurity | April 01, 2013
        Project managers should focus on four key areas in order to successfully navigate the delicate balance between practical and preposterous project estimating.
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      • Sorting Vendors into Piles: The Proper Role of an RFP
        By Russ Bostick and Donn Vucovich, MVP Advisory Group | March 26, 2013
        The decision to issue an effective RFP primarily lies in an organization’s ability to answer five questions clearly.
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      • A Better Business Case For Big Data
        By Kathy Burger | March 22, 2013
        Many factors contribute to the continuing difficulty insurers have in making an effective business case for big data investments.
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      • Gauging The Benefits Of In-Memory Computing For Insurance
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 21, 2013
        SAP has made a splash with its Hana in-memory database technology, but its utility for insurance will depend on carriers' need for speed.
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      • 3 Trends in Insurance Technology TrainingSlideshow Article
        By Peggy Bresnick Kendler | March 15, 2013
        As with any other IT investment, insurance technology executives need to maximize the value – in terms of time and resources, as well as expenditures for every employee training investment. However, it’s often difficult to know where training will yield the biggest bang for the buck, as well as to determine the most effective ways to deliver training. Here are some strategies CIOs should keep in mind.
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      • IT’s Record of Failure Is Worse Than You Think
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 14, 2013
        The record revealed by investigations into IT performance is bad. Unfortunately, according to author and former Guardian Life CIO Frank Wander, the truth is even worse.
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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’s Driving IT’s Record of Failure — And What Can Fix It?
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 10, 2013
        A former insurance CIO traces the endemic failure of IT projects — and the economic waste it implies — to the imposition of an industrial process on the social phenomenon of knowledge work.
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      • Analysts Assess Insurity's AQS AcquisitionSlideshow Article
        By Anthony O'Donnell | March 07, 2013
        This latest manifestation of the Hartford-based vendor's renaissance exemplifies several industry trends, including a preference for core system suites, the importance of scale and the demand for ISO rating capabilities.
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      • SAP Acquires Insurance Product Development Engine Camilion
        By Nathan Golia | March 07, 2013
        SAP says the value added to its insurance software portfolio is in providing an end-to-end suite backed by its in-memory computing capabilities.
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      • Insurity Acquires AQS, Citing 'Unique' ISO Relationship
        By Nathan Golia | March 05, 2013
        The acquiring vendor says it can now "offer significantly more value to existing Insurity and AQS clients as well as the broader P&C insurance market."
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      • Mobile: The Road Ahead for Insurers
        By Anthony O'Donnell | February 26, 2013
        The insurance industry has begun to provide relevant mobile capabilities to customers and distributors, but carriers must develop strategies of engagement beyond mobile that embrace the data processing implications of 'the Internet of things.'
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