Streamlining Investment Portfolio Management and Control
Download this white paper and find out how a standardized data set and intelligent reporting can help insurance companies remove cost and complexity from managing diverse asset portfolios.
- Choose Segment:
- Banking
- |
- Insurance
- |
- Capital Markets
- |
- Trading/Exchanges
- |
BPM for Dummies
[ Source: IBM ]
August 2012-
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).
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.
You discover why changing to BPM now makes sense for your organization, how ...
How To Build a Mission-Critical Data Center
[ Source: HP ]
May 2012-
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.
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.
Sponsored by:<...
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.
Before you move dozens - or hundreds - of important business applications into a new environment, find out how other organizations tackled this challenge.
Download "Avoiding the 8 common mistakes of ...
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.
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 turnkey access to state-of-the-art ...
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 to achieve ...
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.
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.
Read this paper and learn how to regain the upper ...
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.
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.
Customer Communications in Life Insurance: Enabling Profitable Growth
[ Source: Cincom Systems ]
February 2013-
This whitepaper from Strategy Meets Action (SMA) focuses on superior customer communication's role in capitalizing on the changes that are occurring in the life insurance industry. The twin pillars for profitable growth - new customer acquisition and improved retention - depend on high quality customer communications. This is not a case in which technology advancements fall short of needed solution requirements. The automated tools are in place. The capabilities for supporting the creation, management, and ...
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 ...
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. ...
Clearing the Policy Conversion Hurdle: Life Insurers Share Strategies for Moving Large Blocks to New Systems
[ Source: CSC ]
April 2009-
Why do most life and annuity companies still maintain policy administration systems that are 20 to 30 years old? One of the biggest obstacles they face has very little to do with technology. It has more to do with the difficulty of converting large blocks of policies from the old system to the new one.
Unlike property and casualty policies, which renew every six months to a year, life insurance policies can remain in force for 50 years — ...
ERM: Business Imperatives and Implementation Readiness
[ Source: EMC ]
August 2008-
Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) compliments existing information security technologies. This report by The Gilbane Group includes a brief recap of the history of ERM, an outline of the ERM market study, and highlights of the survey results.
This ERM market study was designed to examine the progress ERM has made in the market over the past few years and to assist ERM vendors in positioning the technology to their customers. The structured primary research for ...
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 ...
MAIL360 -- Leveraging the Value of Intelligent Mail Technology
[ Source: Pitney Bowes Business Insight ]
September 2008-
Starting in fall 2009, bulk mailers will be required to use Intelligent Mail® barcodes to qualify for the lowest postal rates. Besides lower postal rates, Intelligent Mail® benefits include address correction, virtual return mail, tracking and delivery confirmation. This new technology also allows you to embed data into the barcode that provides you specific information, unique to every single piece of mail sent.
MAIL360™ is the most comprehensive solution in the industry to leverage the value ...
Best Practices for Leveraging Business Analytics in Today's and Tomorrow's Insurance Sector
[ Source: SAS Institute ]
January 2009-
The use of business analytics continues to permeate the insurance marketplace. This report shares the insights of industry thought leaders as they describe the cultural, organizational, technological and personnel challenges required to more broadly adopt and utilize business analytics. New technology capabilities, business models and data sources are constantly emerging. The successful organizations will be those that concentrate as much on the implementation and deployment of business analytics as on the technology itself. For these ...
Customer Communications in Life Insurance: Enabling Profitable Growth
[ Source: Cincom Systems ]
February 2013-
This whitepaper from Strategy Meets Action (SMA) focuses on superior customer communication's role in capitalizing on the changes that are occurring in the life insurance industry. The twin pillars for profitable growth - new customer acquisition and improved retention - depend on high quality customer communications. This is not a case in which technology advancements fall short of needed solution requirements. The automated tools are in place. The capabilities for supporting the creation, management, and ...
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.
Customer Centricity in Insurance Sales, Service and Saving the Customer
[ Source: Pegasystems ]
February 2012-
Pegasystems offers a unified solution that encompasses all of the technical capabilities required to deliver on your strategy for customer centricity. Pega leverages rules-driven processes, enterprise case management, real-time decision management and unified channel management to bring together all of the people, systems, channels and information needed to anticipate and respond appropriately during each customer interaction.
Improving Multi-Channel Customer Experiences
[ Source: Kofax ]
December 2011-
Automated capture solutions have strategic implications for insurers in terms of improved multi-channel customer experiences, revenue growth in a soft market, higher responsiveness to regulatory changes, and insightful business intelligence. Hear about these benefits in an exclusive TechWeb podcast featuring Jeff Ballard from Kofax, the industry leader for capture-driven processes.
Insurer Priorities and Plans Analyst Report
[ Source: EMC Document Sciences ]
November 2011-
This Strategy Meets Action (SMA) research report highlights the growing role of customer communications and document/content management (CCM and ECM) in insurance. The combination of the ongoing economic uncertainty and evolving expectations of customers, results in a very competitive landscape. Learn why ECM & CCM continue to be core technologies that enable insurers to grow, reduce costs, and improve overall customer service.Compliments of EMC (www.emchasyoucovered.com).
The Critical Importance of Archiving in the Financial Services Industry
[ Source: ARCMAIL ]
November 2011-
This white paper discusses the requirement for financial services firms to retain content of various types, and it discusses what organizations should do to satisfy these obligations. It also provides a brief overview of ArcMail, the sponsor of this white paper and a leading provider of archiving systems.
Insurance: Converging Customers, Cost Management and Compliance
[ Source: Kofax ]
February 2011-
As challenges always provide chances, the future looks good for the insurance industry as a whole. Companies that understand the new market dynamics and take a holistic approach to cost management, operational efficiency, customer value and risk management will come out as clear winners, driving income, profit and business growth. Globalization and today’s technologies are working in favor of those organizations.
Business Analytics for Retail
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2010-
Learn how retailers are using business analytics, including business intelligence, predictive analytics and content analytics, to gain a deep understanding of their customers, predict future behaviors, and better meet their needs. View this online demo to uncover how IBM Business Analytics is helping retailers to better connect with customers and create advantage.
How to Shorten Insurance BI Implementation
[ Source: Oracle ]
September 2010-
Insurance executives understand that Business Intelligence (BI) can help them make smarter business decisions that will ultimately put their companies in the best possible competitive position. Discover a new “adaptive data modeling” approach that streamlines insurance BI projects, shortening implementation timelines from years to months by automating many aspects of the BI process.
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 ...
View All Categories
INSURANCE: Architecture/Infrastructure, Claims, Customer Insight/Business Intelligence, Distribution, Management Strategies, Policy Administration & Management, Regulation/Financial Systems, Security/Risk Management
BANKING: Architecture/Infrastructure, Channels, Core Systems, Customer Insight/Business Intelligence, Payments & Cards, Regulation/Compliance, Risk Management/Security
ADVANCED TRADING: ATS/ECN/Dark Pool, Algorithmic Trading, Block Trading, Cross Asset Trading, Data Latency, Derivatives, Market Data, OMS/EMS, Trading Infrastructure/Technology, Trading Regulations/Compliance, Trading/Exchanges, Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)
CAPITAL MARKETS: Asset Management, Compliance, Data Latency, Data Management, Data Security, IT Infrastructure, Operations, Risk Management, Wealth Management


