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BPM for Dummies
[ Source: IBM ]
December 2011-
Unleash the power of technology as a competitive advantage! Learn how your entire enterprise can become far more agile, helping you meet your goals with Business Process Management (BPM). <br><br>
Download Business Process Management For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition, now and learn how BPM creates value through growth, improved performance, better productivity, higher staff effectiveness, and better customer service. <br><br>
You discover why changing to ...
How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
[ Source: HP ]
November 2011-
Infrastructures must be able to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to evolving needs. Unfortunately, many companies cannot achieve this response with their current data center network architectures. The traditional three-tier model of access, aggregation, and core switching is an operational nightmare.<br><br>
This white paper unveils a solution that streamlines the design of next-generation data centers to ensure the superior resiliency, performance, and agility that enterprise networks now require.
Avoiding the 8 Common Mistakes of Windows 7 Migration
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
September 2011-
The recession put important things on hold for many organizations, like upgrading to new client systems. Now organizations such as yours are ready to upgrade and gain from better performance and efficiency by purchasing new laptops and notebooks with Windows 7 factory-installed.<br><br>
Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge. <br><...
Accountable Care and the Cloud: The Future of Medical IT
[ Source: Siemens ]
July 2011-
In this podcast, Dan Emig and David M. Hamilton of Siemens Medical explain how the cloud can help healthcare providers significantly improve business performance by shifting allocation of their limited budget and human resources away from lower-value back-office operations in favor of higher-value clinical and patient-facing services.<br><br>
The cloud does this by 1) allowing healthcare IT organizations to leverage the economies of scale offered by shared, on-demand infrastructure and 2) providing ...
Advanced Malware Exposed
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
This handbook shines a light on the dark corners of advanced malware, both to educate as well as to spark renewed efforts against these stealthy and persistent threats. By understanding the tools being used by criminals, we can better defend our nations, our critical infrastructures and our citizens. The "Operation Aurora" incident represents an example of how the threats have escalated, revealing how advanced malware is being used in a systematic, coordinated fashion ...
Creating a Timeline for Deploying Windows 7 and Eliminating Windows XP
[ Source: Dell/Microsoft ]
February 2012-
Windows XP support ends April 8, 2014. Therefore, organizations must decide when to begin their migration to Windows 7, set a target date to have Windows XP out and define the scope of the project.<br><br>
This research paper reviews Gartner's key findings and recommendations for deploying Windows 7.
CISO Guide to Next Generation Threats
[ Source: FireEye ]
May 2011-
Over 95% of businesses unknowingly host compromised endpoints, despite their use of firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), antivirus and web gateways. This situation-the new status quo-results from criminals leveraging multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, commercial-quality toolkits and social media to perpetrate next-generation threats. These threats move "low and slow" and use several stages and channels to duck traditional defenses and find vulnerable systems and sensitive data. <br><br>
Read this paper and ...
8 Things That Could Affect Your Business IT Security In The Next Two Hours
[ Source: NETGEAR ]
August 2011-
Discover the secrets over-priced security consultants don't want you to know. Network security is not just about preventing a breach, it's about making every working day as productive as possible by preventing external threats. <br><br>
Where should you start? Download this security brief and NETGEAR will show you the 8 things to do to improve your security posture right now.
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise LAN
[ Source: HP ]
May 2011-
Major LAN purchases and upgrades should not take place without a full competitive review. This Gartner Magic Quadrant reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the major players; including, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Extreme Networks, HP and Juniper Networks.
ImageNow for Insurance: Speeding & Simplifying Line-of-Business and Administrative Processes
[ Source: Perceptive Software ]
March 2008-
This wide-reaching catalog illustrates how ImageNow meets the enterprise-wide needs of today’s insurance market. From claims processing to policy services to AP and HR, customers worldwide use ImageNow to speed and simplify line-of-business and administrative processes alike, and this booklet explains how.
ImageNow integrates with existing to deliver supporting documents – everything from policy applications to first notices of loss to invoices – with just a single click, directly from the software applications employees use daily. ...
Guidelines for Claims Management Systems Selection
[ Source: Systema Software ]
January 2009-
Selecting a new claims system can be an intimidating task due to the risks involved in going with the wrong choice. The complexity of the evaluation process requires an understanding of technology, change management, licensing and support options among others. The purpose of this white paper is to help you simplify this effort by focusing on what really matters and avoiding getting caught up in the technical and vendor jargon.
The 11 Secrets of Business Rules Success
[ Source: FICO ]
January 2010-
Managing business rules gives insurers control over high-volume operational decisions in areas from underwriting to product configuration to claims management, and gives you the agility you need in a dynamic marketplace. Based on decades of experience developing decision management applications, FICO has developed 11 steps to help you make the most of business rules. These include:
• Picking the right applications. Business rules are a powerful tool for building smarter decisions into your applications, but ...
Forrester Research: Member Experience for Health Plans
[ Source: EMC Document Sciences ]
September 2008-
Health plans can’t afford to deliver subpar member experiences any longer. With a growing individual market, increased cost shifting, and a rising focus on disease and wellness management, strong member experience practices are the price of entry, and exceptional experiences are critical for differentiation. To rise above today’s poor performance, health plan customer experience professionals must master the disciplines of strategic healthcare communication: Pave the way for lifestyle support by getting the basics ...
AmFed Gains 16-month ROI with ImageNow Automated Workflow Technology
[ Source: Perceptive Software ]
January 2006-
As AmFed, the fastest growing provider of insurance in Mississippi, expanded, it was inundated by 2.4 million documents. AmFed chose ImageNow to better manage processes in the utilization management, claims, accounts payable and underwriting departments. Since deployment, ImageNow has delivered $2.5 million cost savings, and a 16-month payback on investment.
Seamless integration between ImageNow and AmFed’s multiple insurance and business applications gives AmFed employees instant, single-click access to any detail in insureds’ files, enabling them to ...
Using Barcodes to Improve Insurance Processes
[ Source: Optical Image Technology - DocFinity ]
June 2008-
Throughout the insurance industry, barcodes offer many benefits. They can help expedite backfile conversions, improve processing of current documents, and even initiate electronic workflow processes. When your document management software has the ability to integrate with your claims management system, you can be assured that indexing is always accurate and up-to-date. Bar codes can ensure that new business correspondence is associated with a policy number. Retrieval is dramatically improved, and the return on investment (ROI) ...
The Business Value of Great Communications: A Strategy Meets Action (SMA) Perspective
[ Source: Cincom Systems ]
December 2011-
The insurance industry sells promises - promises that are fulfilled by people. Unlike other industries that manufacture and deliver physical products, the value experienced by an insurance customer is a result of the interaction they have with the insurer, and the perception of how well the insurer has delivered on the promise of the insurance contract. For insurance companies, customer communications play a key role in shaping value.<br><br>
The ...
Overcoming the Dirty Data Problem
[ Source: Experian ]
October 2011-
Insurance is an industry of information and the manipulation of data. Contact data in particular is present in every database. This information critical to insurance operations as it affects risk assessment, policyholder communications and compliance.<br><br>
But the difficulty of maintaining data is almost as prevalent as insurers having contact information in the first place. Because of the fluidity of information, insurers have a hard time keeping contact data clean ...
Insurance: Converging Customers, Cost Management and Compliance
[ Source: Kofax ]
March 2010-
In general, the global financial crisis has not hit the insurance industry as hard as the banking or investment industry, but all insurers, both local and global, face mounting challenges. Insurers face a new consumer world: Policy holders and prospects lack both trust and disposable income, and the new generation demands unprecedented choice of products and services, rates, flexibility, communication and interaction channels and quality of care. As challenges always provide chances, the future looks ...
Achieving Measurable Gains by Automating Claims Processing
[ Source: Kofax ]
March 2010-
For nearly all lines of personal and commercial insurance, reducing the cost of claims processing is key to profitability. Reducing cycle time, the elapsed time from opening a claim to its settlement, is key to customer satisfaction. Moving to a fully automated process is a goal for claims processing of nearly all insurance executives. Companies are at various levels of automation and often do not have an appropriate strategy to achieve higher levels of automation. <...
Best Practices for Delivering Superior Customer Experience
[ Source: EMC Document Sciences ]
January 2009-
This white paper explores the benefits of implementing a CCM platform, identifies the necessary capabilities of such a platform, and supplies organizations with a frame of reference when considering CCM platform options.
15 Minute Guide to Multichannel Marketing Communications
[ Source: EMC Document Sciences ]
June 2010-
This guide focuses on the challenges of creating and delivering personalized marketing communications across multiple publishing channels.
It examines the creation of multichannel marketing communications, the role of content and data management, and how software can be used to automate and manage various production and delivery processes.
Nine Signs Your Claims Correspondence Processes Need Improving
[ Source: Cincom Systems ]
April 2010-
The challenge for most insurance organizations lies in simplifying the complexities involved in harnessing content generated by claims processes. Non-technical resources—not just IT personnel—must be able to apply formatting and business logic to that content and easily assemble, generate and deliver claims correspondence that is accurate, timely and personalized to each policyholder.
So where do you stand? Are your claims correspondence processes showing signs of needing improvement?
Here are ...
Healthcare Case Study: How to boost member satisfaction while saving millions in customer communications costs
[ Source: HP ]
March 2010-
Humana Inc., a health benefits company, wanted to enable high volume production of customer-friendly, informative and personalized documents and in the process boost member satisfaction, retention rates and referral rates at the lowest possible delivery cost. What they got was a document production software application that met all of their criteria.
Download this case study to explore the process improvements and business benefits they found to address the needs of their healthcare customers.
Enterprise Case Management : A Structured framework for holistic management in financial services
[ Source: SAS Institute ]
January 2010-
Enterprise Case Management significantly reduces the time and effort of investigating fraud and resolving customer service cases. By automating workflows, it unites departments at an enterprise level, and offers comprehensive reporting and management dashboards on demand. It helps eliminate significant day-to-day manual effort, evolving a more comprehensive, enterprise-wide view of risk management across the organization’s risk departments. The solution is adaptable for most any business process that requires tracking of cases across functions and ...
The 11 Secrets of Business Rules Success
[ Source: FICO ]
January 2010-
Managing business rules gives insurers control over high-volume operational decisions in areas from underwriting to product configuration to claims management, and gives you the agility you need in a dynamic marketplace. Based on decades of experience developing decision management applications, FICO has developed 11 steps to help you make the most of business rules. These include:
• Picking the right applications. Business rules are a powerful tool for building smarter decisions into your applications, but ...
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