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  • Infrastructure
    • Top Story

      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.
    • Architecture/Infrastructure News

      • Bring Your Own Service: The Next Wave in Collaboration?
      • 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
    • Top Story

      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
      More Policy Administration News
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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
  • Claims
    • 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.
    • Claims News

      • 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
      More Claims News
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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
  • Management Strategies
    • Top Story

      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.
    • Management Strategies News

      • Farmers Taps Yahoo Vet to Lead Digital Strategy
      • Travelers Acquires Dominion of Canada
      • Aegon Appoints Americas Exec Global CTO
      More Management Strategies News
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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
  • Risk Management
    • Top Story

      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.
    • Risk Management News

      • Vertafore Commits to Single Sign-On
      • MagMutual Names New Risk Management VP
      • Hartford Steam Boiler Partners on Blackout Risk Tech
      More Risk Management News
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      • Technology and History Accelerate Insurers' Risk Management Evolution
      • Big Data Boosts Enterprise Risk Management
      • Badass Diamond Heist Boosts Case for Loss Control Tech
      • Making ERM Part of an Insurer's Culture Requires People, Not Just Technology
  • Regulation
    • Top Story

      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.
    • Regulation News

      • MEDfx Gets Michigan Designation as SSA Disability eClaims Tech Provider
      • Insurers Still Waiting for Regulatory Modernization Report
      • SAP's Camilion Buy Fuels New Compliance-Focused Launch
      More Regulation News
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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.
    • Distribution News

      • 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
      More Distribution News
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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
    • Top Story

      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.
    • Customer Insight News

      • Care West Insurance Engages Valen Analytics for Improve Underwriting Performance
      • Three Insurers Take The Plunge Into Telehealth
      • IPartners Signs South African Insurer
      More Customer Insight News
    • Quick Links

      • 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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  • Systems Integration

      • Meeker's State Of The Internet: 5 Key Trends
        By | May 31, 2013
        Internet analyst Mary Meeker has seen the future -- and it is wearable, flyable and drivable.
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      • Progressive Wants to Innovate in Commercial Auto, Too
        By Nathan Golia | May 23, 2013
        The carrier has found that small business owners' demands for self-service are similar to those of personal auto customers.
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      • Security First Takes to Social Media for Insurance Claims
        By Mitch Wagner, Internet Evolution | May 17, 2013
        Security First is using big-data cloud social media analytics software from IBM and partner Integritie to analyze incoming messages sent by email and social media.
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      • MetLife Uses NoSQL For Customer Service Breakthrough
        By | May 14, 2013
        MetLife uses 10Gen's MongoDB database to quickly integrate disparate data and deliver a consolidated view of the customer.
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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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      • Insurance CIOs Are Reshaping Their IT Organizations to Fit the Times
        By Anthony O'Donnell | May 06, 2013
        A combination of economic, cultural and technological forces is making insurance CIOs rethink the configuration of their IT organizations.
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      • World Wide Web At 20: 12 Milestones
        By | May 03, 2013
        Two decades ago, the first Web page came to life. These milestones for users and developers have made the Web what it is today.
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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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      • 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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      • 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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      • Even Grandmothers Can Be Online Trolls
        By | February 07, 2013
        U.K. company Saga shutters its social media site for seniors after online trolls produce a stream of abuse and mayhem.
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      • 5 Ways Solid Portals Help Customer Centricity
        By Steve Hauck, co-CEO, Agencyport | December 21, 2012
        Web services help insurers stay connected to their customers even while back-end legacy systems undergo long, arduous replacement efforts.
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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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      • How Insurers Can Prevent Post-Catastrophe Blowback
        By Nathan Golia | December 14, 2012
        The insurance industry's reputation is taking a post-Sandy hit as vocal policyholders express their opinions that their claims are undervalued. It's easy to prevent this.
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      • Erie Insurance Makes Website Disability Friendly
        By Nathan Golia | November 30, 2012
        New features from a partnership with Essential Accessibility will make it easier for disabled people to buy insurance online.
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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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      • Design, Not Performance, Defines Success of Online Quoting: Study
        By Nathan Golia | November 12, 2012
        But product satisfaction still is the greatest indicator of customer acquisition.
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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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      • Esurance Delivers on Ease of Doing Business Online
        By Nathan Golia | October 16, 2012
        The insurer's recently announced Express Lane capability allows applicants to pre-fill data and speed the application process.
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      • Modernization Choice: Replacement or Future-Proof Environment Leveraging Legacy Assets?
        By Wendy Corman, edgeIPK | October 05, 2012
        Considering the difficulty, length, cost, risk, and project metric failure rate of legacy replacement initiatives, more insurers should consider future-proofing strategies that leverage legacy systems over mere modernization.
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      • Donegal Insurance’s 7 Keys to Successful Acquisitions
        By Sanjay Pandey, CIO, Donegal Insurance Group | September 18, 2012
        Donegal Insurance Group CIO Sanjay Pandey shares seven guidelines that have emerged from the company’s successful technology integration of four new companies acquired during the last four years.
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      • 20 Great Ideas To Steal In 2012
        By | September 12, 2012
        Are you playing it too safe, IT leaders? Take these InformationWeek 500 projects from companies including Cigna and USAA along to rev up your next brainstorming session.
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      • DRC Adds Claims Component to DecisionMaker Suite
        By Nathan Golia | September 06, 2012
        The company highlights the new claims system's out-of-the-box mobile capability.
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