Diamond Sponsor
HCL AXON, a division of HCL Technologies, is a Business Transformation consultancy that delivers significant value to large, complex organizations through the innovative implementation and support of SAP technologies. HCL AXON has over 4,700 of the industry's most experienced professionals specializing in the delivery of sustained business improvement through technology enabled transformation programs. HCL AXON's consultants bring in-depth industry expertise alongside best practice functional knowledge to address the strategic, operational, information management and organizational effectiveness challenges faced by organizations today. HCL AXON is renowned for its global ability to help clients define more ambitious strategies, build more effective organizations and shape more successful futures. For more information, please visit our website at www.hcl-axon.com.
Platinum Sponsors
www.capgemini.com/financialservices
Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through technologies. Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of working, the Collaborative Business Experience. The Group relies on its global delivery model called Rightshore(R), which aims to get the right balance of the best talent from multiple locations, working as one team to create and deliver the optimum solution for clients. Present in more than 30 countries, Capgemini reported 2008 global revenues of EUR 8.7 billion and employs over 92,000 people worldwide.
We bring deep industry experience, enhanced service offerings and next generation global delivery to serve the financial services industry. With a network of 15,000 professionals serving over 900 clients worldwide, we move businesses forward with leading services and best practices in banking, insurance, capital markets and investments.
We leverage Centers of Excellence in banking, insurance, capital markets, compliance & risk management, payments, wealth management, technology services and outsourcing to consistently deliver leading solutions. Our global Centers of Excellence capture industry insights, best practices and the latest trends in techniques, tools and technology to continually upgrade solutions, help service new and existing clients and provide visionary yet practical thought leadership. For more information please visit www.capgemini.com/financialservices
CSC provides the right mix of offerings to support clients' unique business objectives. Our portfolio of assets includes the world's largest collection of financial services application software, a full range of consulting, systems integration and outsourcing services, and an extended network of industry and technical partnerships.
CSC helps insurers reach their business goals by providing a single source for expertise and technology that address every facet of the insurance organization. Our comprehensive portfolio of function-rich software and integrated solutions is designed to help you improve processes and increase efficiencies, while decreasing expenses throughout the entire enterprise.
HP Exstream enterprise document automation software provides insurance organizations with a single platform for designing, maintaining, and delivering relevant and consistent policyholder and agent communications, regardless of document type, variable content or delivery channel. Using HP Exstream, insurers can create personalized documents, including correspondence, quotes, policies, declarations, renewals, EOBs, and more, for delivery through batch, real-time and interactive channels. With HP Exstream's automated compliance support, enterprise approval workflow, component library for automatically replicating changes across all documents, and other capabilities, insurers reduce document and template inventory, development and production costs, and time-to-customer with critical communications. For more information, please visit www.hpexstream.com.
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.
Infosys Technologies is enabling the creation of the Next Generation Insurance carrier through the use of technology in understanding the new customer, co-creating / innovating products that are aligned to market needs and expectations, targeting markets to optimize reach and conversion, ensure effective distribution and policy management and enabling the next generation service models to cater to the customer. The future has a way of arriving unannounced, but winners are never taken by surprise. In the changing world of today, opportunities have become inseparably linked with advances in IT. It is by bringing new thinking and technological breakthroughs into existing ecosystems that carriers can emerge stronger out of the downturn, and go fortified into the next generation of business. We hope to see you in a better tomorrow.
More information about Infosys (NASDAQ : INFY) is available at www.infosys.com
Insurers face an uncertain future as they face spiraling operational costs, escalating regulatory pressures, increasing competition and rising claim expenses. With more than 30 years of experience in the insurance industry, SAS can help you achieve long-term success and obtain peace of mind. Integrated and extensible insurance solutions built on a flexible business analytics framework and insurance-specific data model speed up both implementation and results, giving you a fast track to significant ROI.
SAS tackles insurers' top issues head-on with proven, industry-specific solutions that enable you to:
- Build innovative, analytic pricing models.
- Forecast business trends accurately.
- Detect and prevent fraudulent activity.
- Grant all users simplified information access.
- Respond quickly and thoroughly to regulatory and rating bureau demands.
- Manage all aspects of risk effectively - operational, market and credit.
- Determine customer lifetime value.
- Predict attrition and cross-sell behaviors.
- Monitor all these initiatives with best-in-class scorecards and dashboards.
Gold Sponsors
Clients trust Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, Ltd. (NASDAQ: DTPI) to help their companies grow, improve margins, and increase the productivity of their investments. Working together to design and execute business strategies that capitalize on changing market forces and technology, Diamond's consultants are experts in helping clients attract and retain customers, increase the value of their information, and plan and execute projects that turn strategy into measurable results.
Diamond's capabilities are rooted in deep strategy, technology, operations, and industry experience. The firm's approach to client service is based on objectivity, collaboration, and an unwavering commitment to its clients' best interests. Headquartered in Chicago, Diamond has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Hartford, London, and Mumbai.
To learn more visit www.diamondconsultants.com.
Ineum Consulting is one of the largest independent management consultancy firms in the world with a rich legacy inherited from its origin as the consulting arm of a prominent global audit firm. Ineum Consulting is a member of the Management Consulting Group PLC (MCG), a worldwide organization dedicated exclusively to business and management consulting comprised of 1,600 professionals across 11 countries on five continents. Operating in North America since 2007, Ineum assists our clients with their transformation and performance objectives.
OUR STRATEGY - Organizations across all industries are operating in a challenging economic and regulatory environment and must anticipate dramatic changes in market conditions by adopting ongoing reassessment of strategy, precise implementation of complex transformation initiatives and meticulous execution of corporate and financial transactions - often simultaneously. Ineum's mission is to support our clients as partners by helping them formulate and effect programs in each of these three domains to sustainably support their growth and strengthen their resilience.
Accordingly, we have organized our integrated portfolio of offerings along three broad lines of services, each requiring distinct expertise and delivery models:
- To execute the components of the strategy;
- To help clients formulate their business strategy;
- To support the acquisition of strategic assets or the disposal of others.
LexisNexis® Insurance Solutions group is the innovation and quality leader for comprehensive insurance information solutions, from customer acquisition and retention to claims resolution or adjudication. We work closely with you to deliver the information you need for clear decision-making that optimizes the business origination, claims and underwriting processes. Our tools and technology help you manage the inherent risk in the insurance industry to make your business more profitable.
Our insurance software solutions automate and streamline critical business processes throughout the entire policy lifecycle for commercial, personal and specialty lines. With complete solutions for policy administration, claims management, billing, management reporting, business intelligence, and compliance reporting, our solutions help our customers to reduce expenses, improve performance, gain insightful information about their business and position themselves for growth.
LexisNexis Insurance Solutions is unrivaled in its comprehensive end-to-end solutions, extensive industry experience and its commitment to setting the standards in insurance technology.
Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd (L&T Infotech), one of the fastest growing IT services companies, is ranked 10th by NASSCOM among software & services exporters from India and also ranked among the 'Leaders' category in the prestigious Global 100 list released by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP). L&T Infotech is a wholly-owned subsidiary of US$9.8 billion Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T), India's Best Managed Company-2008 as per the survey conducted by Business Today-Ernst & Young. L&T is featured in the Forbes Asia Annual Fabulous 50 list.
Our strong Insurance Practice provides winning edge to our clients by leveraging domain expertise, innovative solution accelerators and heritage of risk-management for extracting fuller value from IT spend. We provide technology-led solutions for Insurance business worldwide, spanning across the entire insurance landscape: Carriers, Intermediaries and Reinsurers.
Our unique Business-to-IT Connect is a result of our rich corporate heritage and helps us provide the winning edge to our clients. As a full-services IT Firm with a blue-chip client roster, we also offer comprehensive, end-to-end software solutions and services in the following industry verticals: Banking & Financial Services, Energy & Petrochemicals, Product Engineering Services (Telecom), Manufacturing.
MindTree Ltd. is a global Information Technology Solutions company co-headquartered in the U.S. and India. MindTree partners with our clients to create transparent, value-based relationships. Our people build innovative solutions in a wide range of technology domains that enable our customers to succeed in their business goals.
At MindTree, we understand that to be successful in the emerging insurance ecosystem you need to streamline and integrate disparate channels and systems to enhance access and transparency among your constituents. New services hinge on thinking creatively, utilizing your company resources effectively and reacting quickly in order to increase speed-to-market. We call this Insurance 2.0. Our team can help you be successful in Insurance 2.0 by improving your ability to be FAST, AGILE, COLLABORATIVE AND INNOVATIVE.
Technology is increasingly providing the strategic edge that enables you to participate in the evolving insurance ecosystem. Insurance 2.0 requires rapid development of innovative services to capture new market segments. Being easy-to-work with attracts business partners and customers at every level. The carrier which masters various distribution and servicing channels captures revenues that combat today's slimmer margins and flat premiums.
MindTree's Insurance Industry Group comprises 500+ dedicated industry consultants backed by over 6,000 technology specialists. MindTree offers Insurance-specific services and solutions tailored to transform your business and help move you on the road to growth and efficiency. Combining technology capabilities with strong insurance domain skills, the Insurance Industry Group at MindTree focuses on the Property/Casualty and Life/ Retirement segments. We are focused on making the carriers' customer centric by bringing together our expertise in the areas of Business Technology Consulting, eSolutions, Business Intelligence and Analytics, Application Development and Maintenance, Modernization Services & Testing.
Click here to find out more about MindTree's Insurance Group: mindtree.com/insurance-forum/insurance.html
Patni Computer Systems Ltd. is one of the leading global providers of Information Technology services and business solutions. Around 14,000 professionals service clients across diverse industries, from 28 international offices across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific, and 20 Global Delivery Centers in strategic locations across the world. We have serviced more than 400 FORTUNE 1000 companies, for over two decades.
Our IT consulting and insurance software solutions span across insurance lines of business including Life & Annuities, Property & Casualty / General Insurance, Reinsurance, and Healthcare. Over 3000+ dedicated personnel in the Patni Insurance practice have deep domain understanding, expertise on legacy and modern technologies and systems, and experience implementing industry standards such as ACORD and ANSI X-12.
For more information visit us at www.patni.com
Sapiens' RapidSure Policy is a core web-based policy administration solution for personal and commercial lines. Based on industry standard technologies, proven insurance processing methodologies and business oriented deployment model, RapidSure Policy delivers a comprehensive suite of business processes and tools needed for carriers to address the ever competitive insurance landscape. RapidSure Policy provides a component SOA architecture that allows it to be smoothly implemented with existing systems and in manageable segments.
RapidSure solutions allow clients to consolidate their IT systems, providing a solid insurance foundation for transaction processing, reporting and analytics. In addition, RapidSure gives clients the ideal platform to launch new insurance products, capture new business and process policy transactions. Clients improve their internal processes, producer networks and customer product offerings and services. Existing clients, including Kingsway General Insurance Company, Jevco Insurance Company and Philadelphia Insurance, have implemented RapidSure and taken insurance products to market in record time.
Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS), a member of the Formula Group of companies, is a global provider of innovative business solutions for the insurance industry, helping insurance companies to modernize business processes and respond quickly to change. Sapiens' product portfolio addresses a wide range of insurance company processing needs for the property and casualty, reinsurance and life insurance providers.
Check out www.sapiens.com to find out more.
Sterling Commerce helps financial services companies optimize and transform their Business Collaboration Network quickly, easily and securely so they can accelerate revenues, reduce costs and protect their enterprise. Sterling Commerce provides more than 18,000 customers worldwide with applications and integration solutions to improve the way they connect, communicate and collaborate with their customers, partners and suppliers.
Sterling Commerce applications enhance the way companies do business by streamlining the commerce lifecycle from selling to fulfillment for any offer, across any channel, from any source.
Sterling Commerce integration solutions connect people, processes and technologies inside and outside an enterprise, enabling the seamless integration of key business processes between any partner, any system, anywhere. Learn more at sterlingcommerce.com/financial-services/home.
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services and business solutions organization who delivers real results to global businesses, while ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata Group, India's largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 160,000 of the world's most highly trained IT consultants in 42 countries. TCS has over 30,000 person years of experience with over 160 insurance companies with assets in Life and Property & Casualty Industries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $6.3 billion for fiscal year ended 31 March 2010 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com
TeamQuest's Capacity Management software solution enables insurance organizations to maximize their existing IT infrastructure, increase operating efficiencies, accurately provision for changing business needs, while mitigating risks. By combining performance data and business metrics, TeamQuest software enables insurance organizations to provide accurate, objective information as input to critical business decisions that include:
- Effectively meeting service level agreements
- "Just in time" hardware purchases
- Predicting bottlenecks and key performance indicators
- Executing server consolidation and virtualization projects with confidence
- Significantly reducing present and future IT implementation costs
- Aligning IT with business unit objectives
- Avoiding costly downtime via proactive problem detection and root cause analysis
A Fortune 200 insurance company highly benefited from their partnership with TeamQuest by:
- Saving $22 million in 24 months
- Not purchasing new servers for 24 months while all projects moved forward
- Re-introducing servers with new applications while still meeting service level agreements
TeamQuest's mission is to help you objectively plan for and control your IT investments. Learn how we can help you at www.teamquest.com/capacityplanning.
The global leader in data warehousing, Teradata solutions give companies the people, technology and innovation to make smarter, faster decisions that help them achieve competitive advantage to master their markets.
Our people distinguish us - In the data center or the boardroom, Teradata employees set the benchmark for passionate professionalism. We are masters of solution development; deeply knowledgeable in the industries we serve, and relentlessly committed to solving our customers' business and information challenges.
Our technology outperforms every alternative - Teradata delivers integrated, enterprise-scale analytical solutions based on the powerful, scalable and reliable technology platform. The world's largest and busiest data management environments are running and growing on Teradata technology.
We're sharply focused on innovation -Every day we push analytical intelligence deeper into operational execution, enhancing process efficiency and transforming corporate culture.
Our customers form a global community of excellence - Teradata customers are easy to identify: they're the industry powerhouses that are outpacing their competitors. Our worldwide customer community forms a collaborative network connecting every industry, market and geography with application-specific expertise and proven best practices. We work together to make each other smarter.
Our partners extend your possibilities - Teradata partners with other leading innovators in software, technology and integration services to provide our customers with end-to-end analytic solutions. Together we enhance the value of existing infrastructure, expand the scope of business opportunity and extend your growth horizon.
Simply put, Teradata solutions make companies smarter and give them the competitive edge to win. To learn more about our solutions, go to teradata.com.
Voltage Security
Voltage Security is an enterprise security company, providing innovative security solutions that protect employee and customer data wherever it goes—end-to-end — whether in email, documents, or stored in databases and accessed by business applications. By enabling end-to-end encryption (E2EE), Voltage’s solutions stop identity theft, enable fast compliance with PCI regulations, support ARRA privacy guidelines, reduce risks associated with developer, outsourced and off-shore environments, and protect the privacy of communications with employees, business partners and consumers.
Voltage Security information security solutions used by nearly 1,000 enterprise companies including some of the world’s leading brand-name companies in insurance, banking, retail and healthcare such as AAA The Auto Club Group, National Life Insurance, Integro Insurance Brokers, ING, Kodak, Kaiser Permanente, Wells Fargo and Heartland Payment Systems.
Voltage SecureData™ delivers a comprehensive solution for data encryption, tokenization, de-identification, and masking − at run-time, as well as for test and QA data generation – that does not require costly and time-consuming data schema and data format changes in existing systems, including legacy mainframes. Voltage SecureData ensures that sensitive data is protected persistently − as it is collected, used, stored, and distributed to less controlled environments − regardless of infrastructure or application format requirements. Even if a claims processing or payment infrastructure is a complex arrangement of legacy mainframe, contemporary java, or a mix of modern systems like Oracle databases, third-party processes, or complex CRM systems such as Guidewire or PeopleSoft, Voltage SecureData can quickly provide the protection necessary for compliance, and control access on a fine-grained basis.
Voltage SecureMail™ employs proven encryption technologies for sensitive email communications whether inside or outside your company, and is the easiest to manage and use among competing solutions. Voltage SecureMail helps achieve and maintain regulatory compliance and enforce best-practice email protection, without disrupting normal business operations, or conflict with e-discovery or email sanitation and monitoring processes. Whether embedded in the email, or included in attachments of any size, policy details, health and medical information, and other essential customer data can all be transmitted securely, just as easily as sending standard email. Voltage SecureMail is easy to use, whether it is employed for secure two-way communications, or multi-party correspondence.
Silver Sponsors
EMC Document Sciences is a market-leading global provider of customer communications management solutions. Our award-winning xPression(r) software suite enables insurance organizations to automate the creation and delivery of well-designed, highly personalized communications - from customized proposals, policies and marketing materials, to relationship statements and correspondence via print, email, Web, and mobile device, in both real-time and high volume batch. More than 550 organizations worldwide, including over 60 FORTUNE Global 500 companies, use EMC Document Sciences solutions to reduce development costs by up to 90%, improve time-to-revenue by as much as 75%, and enhance the overall customer experience with highly effective 1:1 communications. Based in Carlsbad, California, with award-winning offshore services operations in Beijing, China and offices across the U.S., in London and Sydney, EMC Document Sciences also markets its products in Europe, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Latin America, Asia and Africa. For more information about EMC Document Sciences call 888.4.DOC.SCI or visit www.docscience.com.
Kronos helps organizations manage their most valuable, and expensive, strategic asset -- their workforce. How? By giving them the tools they need to help them control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. The easy-to-own workforce management solutions from Kronos make complete automation and high-quality information a reality.
Our time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics solutions give Kronos customers the edge they need to compete in the global marketplace. With thousands of installations in organizations of all sizes -- including over half the Fortune 1000(R) -- we're proving workforce management doesn't have to be so hard.
Oracle believes that insurers should be able to leverage technology to help transform their business. Oracle Insurance provides adaptive, rules-driven systems that let insurance companies easily change business processes as their business needs change. This positions insurers to readily respond to dynamic market conditions and take advantage of new opportunities as they arise. Oracle Insurance supports the insurance enterprise with solutions for the entire business, from sales and service, to administration and claims, to financials and human capital management, to enterprise infrastructure. More than 2,000 global insurers use Oracle applications today. Learn more about our deep industry expertise and solutions at www.oracle.com/insurance
Thunderhead is one of the world's leading providers of enterprise customer communications management technology, and one of the fastest-growing software providers in the world. The Thunderhead NOW platform enables organizations to streamline the process of creating and delivering highly personalized documents and messages, via any language or channel, and for print or electronic delivery, including SMS, XML and social media channels. Insurance carriers rely on Thunderhead to automate the creation of both batch and real-time interactive communications, such as claims correspondence, quotes, policies, EOBs, ACORD documents and statements of need.
The Thunderhead NOW platform also offers unparalleled personalization and analytics capabilities, empowering organizations to transform business communications into high-performance customer experiences. Based on an open J2EE architecture, with full support for ACORD XML and other industry standards, Thunderhead NOW is the most flexible platform available for customer communications management and document generation. Many insurance carriers have turned to Thunderhead for help moving from legacy print-centric systems to a more modern approach to customer communications. Thunderhead also provides rapid integration with core systems such as IBM, CSC and Guidewire. Clients include insurers such as Allianz, Prudential Financial, SafeAuto, Jackson National Life, Unitrin and Medavie Blue Cross.