AMERICAN NATIONAL SIMPLIFIES PRODUCT INTRODUCTION WITH CSC'S REAL-TIME SOFTWARE: Mid-Sized Life Insurer Consolidates Systems to Support Acquisitions and Growth [ Source: CSC ]
May 2009- Once known as a home service company, American National has transitioned into a mid-sized multi-line carrier with an ever growing, complex line of life and annuity products, including a range of variable and indexed products. Over the years, American National has acquired a number of carriers, most of which were folded into the corporation through conversions of closed blocks. As the company evolved, developing innovative products while adhering to regulations and keeping costs down became ...

The Importance of Mobile Security [ Source: Sprint ]
August 2008- Sprint's head of mobile security, Mark Hasse, talks to Insurance and Technology about the role of security for mobile workers. Especially as Insurance agents and field workers take new mobile platforms and laptops out of the enterprise, there are concerns about losing or compromising sensitive financial and customer information. Hasse talks about the need for awareness, the important topic of securing data at rest, and the encryption solution.

Balancing Risk and Productivity for Mobile Insurance Workers [ Source: Sprint ]
August 2008- Mobile services, like 3G, have made it possible for Insurance workers to remotely access vital information while they are out in the field, but this also introduces a great deal of risk. Mark Hasse, who heads up mobile security for Sprint, demonstrates the SprintSecure Guardian connection card at ACORD.

How Leading IT Executives Cut Costs [ Source: CAST ]
May 2009- CAST recently caught up with Kelly Cannon, former Vice President, Shared Application Services at Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest health care insurers in the U.S. Kelly tells us about the current state of IT in the insurance sector, and how senior IT executives are responding to the tough economic conditions by rapidly delivering business benefits.

Key Topics

• How IT is transforming the insurance value chain
• How to identify ...
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Insurers Gain New Insights with Integrated Process and Content Management [ Source: Perceptive Software ]
July 2012- Most insurance companies realize that their IT infrastructure is one of their most valuable assets. The question is: How can they leverage these systems to improve how they acquire and retain customers, manage risk, attain regulatory compliance and optimize business processes?

The answer is to invest in technologies, such as enterprise content management (ECM), business process management (BPM), business intelligence (BI) platforms and analytical tools.

Building Effective Business and IT Operations in a New Economy [ Source: CSC ]
January 2012- New modernization opportunities can help insurers cost-effectively transform existing technology and reduce operational costs with minimal risk. Read about four key modernization strategies that will help you retain business, grow market share and improve profitability:

• Process Innovation
• Operational intelligence
• System modernization
• Multisourcing

See what CSC has seen work in the insurance industry, and draw on the authors' real-world experience, as well as customer insights.

Modernizing Insurance Legacy Systems for a Leading Provider of Annuity Products [ Source: Infosys ]
November 2010- The annuity division of one of the world's largest service companies wanted to improve customer service. Infosys partnered with the client to address the client's business goals. The Infosys team created a technology architecture... blueprint and improved process rigor, project management, quality focus and metrics tracking to enhance the effectiveness of delivery. Our solution enabled the client to improve customer satisfaction, accelerate time-to-market and enhance IT operational efficiency.

Next Generation Insurance Practice [ Source: Infosys ]
November 2010- Infosys' Insurance Practice is enabling the creation of the Next Generation Insurance carrier through the use of technology in understanding the new customer, cocreating / innovative 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.

Automating Wrap-Up Application for a Leading Insurer [ Source: Wipro Technologies ]
April 2010- The client wanted to automate its Wrap-Up system to reduce cycle time & associated costs and be competitive within the industry. Wrap-Ups are widely used as a risk management technique by allowing coverage for multiple insureds to be wrapped up into one consolidated program. Solution: Wipro worked with the client to develop a framework that would generate details of the construction costs and then provide an analysis to the Wrap-Up team. A proof of concept was ...