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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.
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 ...
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) ...
Identify your most Profitable Customers with an Integrated Financial System - A UBM Whitepaper for Insurers
[ Source: Lawson Software ]
September 2009-
Identify your most profitable customers and areas of growth today. Find out how!
Competitive financial services firms and insurers are creating competitive advantage by accessing data in real time - rather than waiting until the end of the month or quarter - to enable them to make strategic decisions earlier and not miss out on lucrative opportunities.
Download this whitepaper to see how an integrated financial system draws upon real-time business ...
Efficient Producer Lifecycle Management (PLM): How Growth-minded Carriers are Scaling through Automation
[ Source: Vertafore ]
November 2012-
This 8-page eBook from Vertafore educates carriers on the basics & importance of Producer Lifecycle Management (PLM), & how these processes can be adopted, optimized & automated. Managing the producer lifecycle often involves disjointed processes, manual and redundant data entry, and efficient transactions across multiple internal systems.
Efficient Producer Lifecycle Management (PLM) accelerates producer sales authorizations by automating the transactions required to get and maintain requisite credentials and selling relationships, while adhering to regulation and upholding ...
Insurance Carriers: Here's Your Clear Path For Growth
[ Source: Vertafore ]
November 2012-
Straight from the horse's mouth: The following infographic presents expansion bottlenecks, resource restraints, strategic influencers, & a toolkit for success around transforming Producer Lifecycle Management, as offered by other insurance companies hoping to elevate Producer Lifecycle Management to a strategic initiative.
Bottom line? To achieve growth objectives, carriers need to spend more time pursuing strategic initiatives and less time on the tasks and communication required to get and keep their sales channel authorized to ...
A Proactive Turnkey Marketing Solution for Insurance Professionals
[ Source: Relational SalesPro, LLC ]
August 1996-
SALESPRO Opportunity Builder is a proactive turnkey marketing solution designed for the progressive insurance professional. Unlike any CRM, drip-marketing tool or Sales Force Automation, SALESPRO strategically guides the user through the entire marketing life cycle, placing the producer in front of the buyer, when the buyer is ready to buy –- not when the producer is ready to sell. Campaigns show the buyer persistence, attention to detail, a desire to serve and build trust by ...
Identify your most Profitable Customers with an Integrated Financial System - A UBM Whitepaper for Insurers
[ Source: Lawson Software ]
September 2009-
Identify your most profitable customers and areas of growth today. Find out how!
Competitive financial services firms and insurers are creating competitive advantage by accessing data in real time - rather than waiting until the end of the month or quarter - to enable them to make strategic decisions earlier and not miss out on lucrative opportunities.
Download this whitepaper to see how an integrated financial system draws upon real-time business ...
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 ...
Competitive Strategies for Managing Customized Forms
[ Source: EMC Document Sciences ]
January 2007-
Product customization is a common means by which carriers compete. As a result, most carriers are overrun with the multitude of administrative forms required to sell and service their products. This increases the analytical challenges placed on pricing and underwriting, makes marketing more difficult, and drives up costs.
Based on survey data and interviews with insurance carriers, this Celent report focuses on the impact that a customization strategy has on forms management, and ...
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) ...
Becoming a Customer-Focused Business--One Policy at a Time
[ Source: Diamond Management & Technology Consultants ]
July 2008-
This white paper defines and provides concrete examples of how customer data integration (CDI) can either save or generate millions of dollars for the insurance industry in product design and service, marketing and sales, customer service and claims and fraud detection and compliance. These are the “bedrock” areas of the industry yet carriers still shy away from technology investments that create a customer-centric, integrated repository of data. This paper also delves into why CDI projects ...
Companion Property & Casualty Moves into 10 States, Adds Four Lines of Business with CSC's Software and Bureau Reporting Services
[ Source: CSC ]
March 2005-
To support its aggressive growth plan, Companion Property & Casualty Insurance Group needed a technology provider with systems and services tailored to the P&C commercial market. For years, Companion had used CSC’s systems and services for policy processing, an Internet portal and bureau reporting. Companion in 1991 was among the first P&C companies to license CSC’s POINT software, the world’s leading policy administration system for small to midsize carriers and MGAs. The ...
Advancing Agent Connectivity: The 5 levels of maturity
[ Source: iter8 Inc. ]
June 2008-
Excellence in agent connectivity is rarely, if ever achieved. Rather it is a work in progress, one which is in flux as the carrier develops from one level of maturity to the next, always increasing effectiveness and efficiency, and thereby, profitability.
Fortunately the cost-benefit ratio of advancing agent connectivity is highly favorable for the carrier, with relatively small investments, wisely deployed, yielding substantial returns in short order.
Agent Connectivity is without a doubt the most ...
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