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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.
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      • 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
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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.
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      • 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
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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
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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.
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      • 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
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      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.
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      • Hartford Steam Boiler Partners on Blackout Risk Tech
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      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.
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      • MEDfx Gets Michigan Designation as SSA Disability eClaims Tech Provider
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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.
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      • 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
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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
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      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.
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      • Care West Insurance Engages Valen Analytics for Improve Underwriting Performance
      • Three Insurers Take The Plunge Into Telehealth
      • IPartners Signs South African Insurer
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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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  • Policy/Administration

      • Most Insurers Seek Integrated Core Platform: SAP Survey
        By Nathan Golia | June 18, 2013
        A survey of 203 insurance executives at the IASA conference this month provides a look into core replacement strategies.
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      • The Philadelphia Contributorship Chooses ISCS SurePower Innovation Suite
        By Anthony O'Donnell | June 14, 2013
        The Ben Franklin-founded company set out to find a core systems solution that could meet expectations of producers and insureds for service and information access, while providing internal process efficiencies and continual upgrades as technology advances.
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      • Instec Debuts Quicksolver Connect P&C Policy Admin Component App Store
        By Anthony O'Donnell | June 03, 2013
        Built around the vendor's Quicksolver core platform, Quicksolver Connect is a virtual shopping mall of pre-integrated, web-deployed software components enabling a best-of-breed approach to meet insurers' specific needs.
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      • 4 Key Benefits of SaaS Automated Systems for Life Insurers
        By Mitch Ludwig, Accenture Software. | May 23, 2013
        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.
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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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      • 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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      • Selective Appoints New CIO
        By Kathy Burger | May 09, 2013
        Gordon Gaudet, most recently director and co-lead of Deloitte Consulting's Insurance Core Systems Transformation practice, will have responsibility for all IT operations at the P&C insurer.
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      • OMS National Insurance Selects Full Accenture P&C Suite
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 07, 2013
        OMSNIC will use Accenture's Policy Administration, Billing and Claim Components software in order to create a single integrated solution for rating, quoting, underwriting, billing, claims administration and policy lifecycle support.
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      • se2 Turns to FAST to Support Growing Life Outsourcing Business
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 07, 2013
        Following a deployment that took lest than five months, se2 is currently processing term, whole life and interest-sensitive policies.
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      • Sapiens Introduces the DECISION for Insurance Business Decision Management Solution
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 06, 2013
        By consolidating business rules into a central, audit trail-supported repository, DECISION for Insurance is designed to give carriers full control of decision execution throughout the enterprise, and consistency across multiple systems.
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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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      • MphasiS Wyde Debuts Wynsure v5.0 for All Insurance Lines
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 01, 2013
        The new version includes user experience improvements, as well as group business features, such as a dedicated CRM desktop and simplified accounting and underwriting process review.
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      • Exigen Fills Gap in Group Benefits Core System Solutions Market
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 30, 2013
        Celent's Chuck Johnston says its makes sense that compelling new solution offerings in the group administration space should come from property & casualty system vendors such as Exigen.
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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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      • Humana's SmartVideo Personalized Statements Will Engage Customers
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 25, 2013
        The insurer's use of SundaySky’s SmartVideo technology improves customer experience by rendering complex information easily intelligible.
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      • Unirisx CEO Akhil Tripathi's Missing Son Falsely Associated with Boston Marathon Attack
        By Anthony O'Donnell | April 19, 2013
        Speculation on the part of a Reddit user led to erroneous assumptions that law enforcement authorities have since refuted.
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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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      • 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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      • 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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      • How Nationwide's Guidewire Deal Impacts the Whole Insurance Industry
        By Anthony O'Donnell | February 06, 2013
        The selection of a package for a massive volume of business settles rather than opens the question about the industry's technological direction.
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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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      • Achieving Technology Self-Sufficiency Requires a Marathon, Not a Sprint
        By Mark Cummings, Sapiens | January 14, 2013
        While independence from the solution provider sounds attractive, self-sufficiency doesn’t come without a learning curve, challenges, and risks.
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      • Adminovate Surprises with Indian Health Insurance TPA Debut
        By Anthony O'Donnell | January 09, 2013
        The Philadelphia-based vendor, whose forwardPAS system has a pedigree through pioneer L&A-focused system AdminServer, will support Mumbai-based Health India TPA Services’ healthcare claims administration.
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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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