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      • Jackson National Life's Rapid Growth Drives Facilities, IT Expansion
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 17, 2013
        As part of his effort to accommodate an IT organization under increasing demand, CIO Mark Clark envisions the creation of an innovation-friendly workspace to foster collaborative work.
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      • Motorists Replaces Legacy Reinsurance System With Effisoft's WebXL
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 12, 2013
        The Columbus, Ohio-based carrier chose WebXL as a comprehensive solution providing enhanced data access, improved controls and fully automated processing.
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      • After a Decade of M&A, CFG Emerges Unified on Sapiens ALIS Policy Administration System
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 30, 2013
        Along with significant efficiency and ease-of-doing-business benefits for agents, Columbian Financial Group will be able to build on its record of growth more effectively and efficiently through the operational unity afforded by its systems consolidation.
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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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      • 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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      • Commercial Insurers Hampered by Legacy Systems: Survey
        By Nathan Golia | April 11, 2013
        FirstBest's survey of NAMIC Commercial Lines Conference attendees indicates that insurers are looking for the ability to underwrite risks faster.
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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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      • How is Insurance Technology Like Downton Abbey?
        By Anthony O'Donnell | February 26, 2013
        The great English house is a legacy system embedded in an institution with a history of hostile takeover. Its survival depends on accessing new talent and reorienting itself to understand its mission from an outside-in perspective.
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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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      • 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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      • 5 Years, 5 Top Disruptors, One 800lb Analytic Gorilla - Novarica Study
        By Anthony O'Donnell | February 01, 2013
        Big Data and analytics are implicated in four of the respondents' top five business disruptors and explicitly identified as comprising the fifth.
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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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      • Nationwide’s PolicyCenter Project Pioneers Package Policy Admin for Top-Tier Insurers
        By Anthony O'Donnell | January 24, 2013
        CIO Jim Korcykoski and project leader Seth Flory, VP, Business Transformation Office, relate how Nationwide decided the time — and the target system — was right for a package policy admin system implementation for processing policies representing about $9 billion in premium.
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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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      • 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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      • 10 Burning Questions from 2012: What Happened?Slideshow Article
        By Nathan Golia | December 14, 2012
        A year ago I&T identified several tough questions we predicted the insurance technology industry would have to confront in 2012. What happened and how much clarity did we get?
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      • Generali Deutschland prepares for Solvency II with ERM platform
        By Anne Rawland Gabriel | December 07, 2012
        Generali Deutschland prepares to meet new regulatory mandates by centralizing and streamlining actuarial functions with SunGard’s iWorks ERM Platform.
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      • Making Your Mainframe Work Smarter, Not Harder
        By Steve Biondi, Micro Focus | November 27, 2012
        Rather than rip-and-replace, optimize your mainframe MIPS for key applications and understanding where you can redeploy MIPS-heavy workloads to alternative, more cost-effective platforms without introducing significant risk.
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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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      • 5 Reasons Why Carriers Must Embrace Cloud Computing
        By Dave Shively, MphasiS | November 12, 2012
        Cloud-based solutions are allowing traditional carriers to close the technology gap and get back into the game. Not only do they empower carriers to quickly get on par with their new entrant competitors, they are also able to keep pace as technology evolves, argues Dave Shively of MphasiS.
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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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      • The Waiting Game: Life/Annuity Insurers on the Technology Modernization Sidelines
        By Erik Stockwell, MajescoMastek | November 05, 2012
        Given that CIOs are ready to move forward, why is there not a greater sense of urgency among life/annuity carriers to replace legacy policy administration systems, and, what will it take for them to make the move?
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      • Where Are They Now? 2011's Elite 8 Continue To Hone Digital CapabilitiesSlideshow Article
        By Peggy Bresnick Kendler | October 26, 2012
        As mobile and digital technologies continue to reshape the insurance industry, Insurance & Technology caught up with some of the 2011 Elite 8 to see how the changing expectations of consumers, employees and partners are transforming their focus.
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      • Changing Times: How Insurance CIOs Can Strengthen Their Strategic Influence
        By Anthony O'Donnell | October 25, 2012
        Insurance & Technology's Elite 8 2012 advisory board members discuss what characterizes the successful insurance CIO in a time of great change.
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