Keeping Agents Focused on Customer Acquisition
An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast:
Join this one-hour Insurance & Technology webcast to learn about:
• The challenges of today’s independent distribution market
• How to monitor producer performance against dynamic KPIs
• How to personalize compensation schedules for producers
• Integrating new DM tools with existing IT environments
• Managing multiple channels with complex hierarchy
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010-Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
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The Optimized Enterprise
Creating a More Competitive and Efficient Insurance Organization
An Insurance & Technology Virtual Event
Gain access to the industry's top business technologists, experts and solution providers in an interactive environment, with the opportunity to discuss the realities, capabilities and expectations surrounding the technologies that will shape the next generation of the insurance industry, via an interactive platform that enables networking with peers, industry leaders, and solution providers.
Diamond Sponsors: Microsoft, Verizon
Platinum Sponsor: CSC
Silver Sponsors: Camillion, Diamond Consulting, Fineos, Iter8, Lexis Nexis

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Maximizing Your Data Asset: New Thinking About Data Quality
An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast
In this 45-minute Insurance & Technology webcast, the presenters will discuss vital questions shaping the new thinking about data quality:

-Who owns the issue of data quality within the organization?
-Where and when is data quality addressed?
-What tools are used to ensure data quality?
-What is the impact of poor data quality?
-What governance is in place to ensure data quality in the future?
-Which data quality metrics are most important, who sets the metrics, how are they monitored, and who is accountable for the outcome?
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010-9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
Duration: 45 Minutes + 15 Minute Q&A

Applying Analytics to Unite the Goals of Growth and Profitability
An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast
In this one-hour webcast, hosted by Insurance & Technology, you will learn how to:
•Evaluate and refine underwriting appetite
•Segment customers by profitability
•Increase profitable producer relationships
•Focus your book of business on more profitable risks
•Refine company strategy based on unique underwriting strengths
Date: Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Time: 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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11 Secrets of Success with Business Rules
An Insurance & Technology Webcast
In this presentation, you’ll discover great tips for business users and IT professionals alike from the people behind the leader in business rules management systems, FICO™ Blaze Advisor®, and a forward-thinking insurer who has transformed his business using business rules.

Business rules play a critical part in modernizing the insurance infrastructure, reducing costs and increasing business agility. Get your use of rules off to the right start, or learn how to advance your current use of rules, with this valuable webinar.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010-9am PT / 12pm ET
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Cashing In on Cash Management Technology
An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast
By proactively managing payment processes, insurers can limit short-term cash flow issues, improve regulatory compliance and enhance customer service. In this free, one-hour web seminar, moderated by Insurance & Technology Senior Editor Nathan Conz, you'll hear from industry experts on cash management technology and how carriers can fully realize its benefits.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010-9:00 AM PT /12:00 PM ET
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The Decisive Edge: Improving Decision Making in the Insurance Enterprise
Insurers seek greater transparency and agility more than ever but they typically fail to assimilate these qualities as guiding principles of their enterprise management culture. Rapid reaction to a changing market requires real-time insight into operations at multiple levels. Many carriers struggle to deliver sound accounting and financial information at a time when competitive distinction increasingly hinges on ready access to policy and claims trends, sales data, channel profitability and other sources.

Join this one-hour webcast co-sponsored by Insurance & Technology and Oracle, to learn about:
•The increasing importance of rapid and sound decision-making as a competitive differentiator
•Typical impediments to freer information flow within the insurance enterprise
•Converting diverse sources of data into actionable information
•Using business intelligence as a foundation for management excellence
Thursday, February 04, 2010-9am PT / 12pm ET
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Insurance for a Smarter Planet
IBM Virtual Briefing Center
Join IBM for the grand opening of the Insurance for a Smarter Planet virtual briefing center. The current economic environment is the most challenging in decades. Insurance leaders anticipate turbulent change and predict bold moves for the industry in the tough months ahead. Come explore bold moves for your business.

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Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2010-10:00 AM -1:30 PM EST
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The Evolution of Performance Management and Integrated BI
An Insurance & Technology and Bank Systems & Technology Editorial Perspectives WebCast
Join Insurance & Technology, Bank Systems & Technology and SAP for an editorial perspectives webcast where you will gain insights into the kinds of consolidated solutions that can reduce cycle time in creating and approving budgets, enable calculated decision making by taking risk probabilities into account, and increase user productivity with minimal training.
Wed., December 16, 2009 - 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Financial Services in 2010 – Top Business and Technology Trends
A Financial Technology Network WebCast
Join this webcast to learn how open source technologies like BIRT can be used to remain current with these trends by incorporating new functionality into online banking, wealth management and cash and treasury management applications without incurring the technology overhead of starting from the ground up.

Attend and receive a complimentary copy of this report, "How RIA Technologies Enable Business Banking Client Relationships".
Date: Thursday, December 03, 2009: Time: 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET
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True ECM: Collaborative Content and a Transactional Focus
An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives WebCast
In this free, one-hour web seminar, moderated by Insurance & Technology senior editor Nathan Conz, you’ll hear from industry experts as they discuss how Enterprise Content Management systems, such as Hyland Software’s OnBase solution, can be integrated with Microsoft’s SharePoint software to empower agents with Web access to both collaborative and transactional content.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 – 9AM PT/12:00 PM ET
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Global Document Automation: Worldwide and Centrally Managed
An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives WebCast
Join Insurance & Technology and EMC Document Sciences and hear from industry experts on a possible shift in the industry towards globally deployed document automation solutions and learn how to identify what type of customer communication platform will fulfill global requirements that could benefit your company.
Fri., November 20, 2009 - 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Improving Licensing and Compliance Processes Through Outsourcing
An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives WebCast
Join Insurance & Technology and Kaplan Compliance to learn about such timely topics as operational standards that mitigate the risks of compliance outsourcing, choosing the right vendor for compliance outsourcing and crafting a long-term plan for increasing the accuracy and efficiency of compliance processes.
Tues., November 17, 2009 - 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Policy, Billing and Claims in the Cloud: Opting for SaaS
An Insurance & Technology Vendor Webcast
Pondering whether Software-as-a-Service is ready for core systems? Learn about the business drivers, trade-offs and benefits. With core systems support on average consuming over 50% of IT operational spend and staffing, much of it going to outsourcers, insurers are increasingly attracted to the idea of SaaS for delivery of business applications where they are backed by solid industry and technical expertise.
In this free one-hour webcast, you will hear Novarica analyst Chad Hersh speak on insurance SaaS implementation and Mike Anselmo, CIO, Narragansett Bay Insurance Company, discuss the decision-making process that led his company to trade in-house core systems administration to gain substantial operational, financial and technological benefits.
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 / Time: 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET
Sponsored by: Exigen Insurance Solutions
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BIRT: Enhance Corporate Banking while Reducing Costs with Open Source
A Financial Technology Network Vendor Perspectives WebCast
Seema Haji, Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Actuate, will discuss how to address these trends with customer-centric online applications and why open-source products like BIRT are gaining acceptance as alternatives to building these applications 100% from the ground up.
Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009-11 AM PT / 2 PM ET
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A Core Capability: The Case for Underwriting Technology
An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast
In this free, one-hour web seminar, moderated by Insurance & Technology senior editor Nathan Conz, you’ll hear from industry experts at as they discuss the business case behind new business underwriting solutions and best practices around implementing automated underwriting solutions.
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009- 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
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Creating the Optimized Insurer Through Analytics
An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast
In this one-hour webcast, learn how data-rich but information-poor companies can become insight-rich through a holistic data analytics strategy to drive:
• Claims optimization
• Customer optimization
• Channel and product optimization
• Risk and compliance
Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009-9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
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Fueling Growth and Driving Product Innovation in Dynamic Market Conditions
An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast
During this one-hour webcast, our speakers will explore:

• Best practices for aligning business and IT objectives when making policy administration investments, including critical success factors and common pitfalls to avoid
• Ease of using modern, rules-based policy administration systems to create innovative and often complex products for specific market segments and accelerate product development cycles
• How to respond to market or regulatory changes by leveraging your policy administration system to reconfigure or "clone" existing products for true business agility
• Examples of how insurers are achieving dramatic improvements in speed-to-market and competitive advantage to sustain and fuel growth, while reducing overall total cost of ownership
Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2009- 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET
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Content Management as a Customer Service Optimization Tool
An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast
At this free, one-hour web seminar, moderated by Insurance & Technology's Senior Editor, Nathan Conz, you’ll hear from industry experts on how to leverage the capabilities that an end-to-end content management solutions can provide -- scanning, imaging, document management and workflow automation -- to give your claims department the ability to streamline its core processes and easily store, access and retrieve information, leading to better cycle times and more satisfied customers.
Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009 - 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET
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Collaborative Straight Through Processing for Insurance
An Insurance & Technology Vendor Perspectives Webcast
Microsoft technologies demonstrated in this session include, but are not limited to, Silverlight, .NET, Office, SQL Server, PerformancePoint, BizTalk, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Azure. Additionally, Microsoft will also show how rich business documents like Policies and Illustrations can be created through a centralized server-side process, but managed by business people through Office tools.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 -9 AM PT/ 12 PM ET
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Leveraging SOA for Agile Enterprise Communications
An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives WebCast
In this one-hour webcast, our panelists will discuss how the business agility promise of SOA can translate into communications agility through the use of dynamic content publishing.
Topics of discussion include:
• A look into current research on insurers' SOA progress
• The architecture of applications and content management agility
• Data management prerequisites for ECM
• The implementation of dynamic content publishing for Web-based document fulfillment and high-volume batch generation
Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009-9 AM PT / 12 PM ET
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Improved Data Quality: The Ultimate Efficiency
An Insurance & Technology Editorial Perspectives Webcast
At this free, one-hour web seminar moderated by Insurance & Technology's Senior Editor, Nathan Conz, you'll hear from industry experts on how to leverage data verification and data quality software solutions to ensure that your efficiency initiatives reach their full potential.
Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009 -9 AM PT / 12 PM ET
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