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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.
Insurers Look to Emerging Markets for Growth
[ Source: TechWeb ]
January 2010-
There is an enoromous demand for insurance products and services in emerging markets but insurers must be prepared to focus on the right consumers and provide them with the right products and excellent service.
Building Profitable Relationships in Insurance
[ Source: Interactive Intelligence ]
July 2010-
For insurers, CCM is the key to maximizing every customer interaction — to capture more information about that customer’s needs, make timely offers, and enhance the service experience. Read how CCM is most valuable when insurers take a holistic approach, which allows them to create enterprise-wide flows of information from all voice and data communications, and generate structured as well as unstructured data via a wide range of channels.
IBM Insurance Opportunities in China
[ Source: TechWeb ]
January 2010-
Insurers will find many opportunities for growth in China, but theyll first need to tweak their business models and distribution channels to meet the needs of Chinas increasingly sophisticated and self-directed consumer.
Leading-Edge Product Development Strategies to Improve Speed to Market
[ Source: Infosys Technologies ]
June 2009-
The insurance industry is going through a period of major change. Traditional products and markets are no longer providing growth opportunities. Carriers are forced to look outside their traditional products and markets for profitable growth. This is why it is important for insurance companies to understand the potential of leading-edge product development strategies to improve speed to market. With the aging of the baby boomer generation and their impending exodus from the workplace, there is ...
12.01.10 How Insurance Companies Can Benefit from Agile Development
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2010-
Agile development is being touted as a way insurers can reduce project risks and improve deliverables. Matt Josefowicz, Director of the Insurance Practice at Novarica, identifies the opportunities to leverage agile development in the insurance indust
2011 Insurance IT Budget Outlook
[ Source: TechWeb ]
November 2010-
The past year saw a cautious renewal of IT investment by insurance companies. With the economy showing more signs of recovery, will this trend continue in 2011? Matt Josefowicz, Director of the Insurance Practice at Novarica, offers his predictions.
Insurance & Technology's Elite 8 Awards Ceremony
[ Source: TechWeb ]
January 2009-
8 industry executives were recognized at Insurance & Technology's 10th annual Elite 8 awards ceremony.
Zurich Financial Services Supports Market Leadership Strategy with CSC's Application Outsourcing Services
[ Source: CSC ]
March 2008-
Zurich Financial Services needed to transform operations from a collection of independent business units to a more efficient global business model that could respond more rapidly to growing demands. The firm entered into a $1.3 billion, seven-year outsourcing contract with CSC to outsource both development and support in a record insurance IT deal. As a result, Zurich Financial Services achieved 50 percent more flexibility in software component use, enhanced business processes to support market growth, transferred 1,600 employees ...
2010 Policy Administration Systems Outlook
[ Source: TechWeb ]
February 2010-
Although today there are many more options available to carriers, its still a challenging and often risky decision. Novaricas Matt Josefowicz speaks with I&Ts Kathy Burger about current trends in the policy administration systems market.
Cloud Computing for the Enterprise
[ Source: TechWeb ]
August 2009-
IBMs Computing on Demand pay-for-use cloud computing services enables insurance carriers to reduce costs yet access the computing strength needed to run sophisticated analytics and actuarial modeling applications.
IT Influencer Brief: Automating Producer Lifecycle Management, A Roadmap for IT Success
[ Source: Vertafore ]
November 2012-
This brief helps IT influencers quickly identify how they can best support their business users, and remove typical IT pushback hot buttons like “we can build it ourselves” and “this is yet another add-on system that’s going to take way too much of our time and money to support”, by making the case for SaaS-based, automated PLM application that seamlessly integrates with and breathes new life and up-to-date producer data into entrenched legacy systems
The Oracle Insurance Survey: Overcoming IT Hurdles to Success
[ Source: Oracle ]
November 2012-
New research by Oracle and Insurance Networking News sheds light on insurers struggle to attain agility. This white paper reveals the research findings to illuminate challenges that hinder insurers efforts to meet their business goals.
Core Systems Modernization: Harnessing the Power of Rules-Based Policy Administration
[ Source: Oracle ]
November 2012-
This brief discusses how insurers can harness the power of rules-based configurability to derive faster time to value during key phases in their policy administration transformation projects requirements gathering and integration through the use of process models or configuration templates.
Company's Annuity Operations Increases Scale and Gains Efficiencies Using Straight Through Process (STP) and Best of Breed platforms
[ Source: Oracle ]
November 2012-
The "Company" examined in this White Paper is a major financial services firm offering Variable and Fixed Annuity products through six insurance manufacturers, including its own. The Company recognized
the need to improve the services they provide to their advisors to spur continued growth, increase annuity product offerings, and simplify the sales process.
The distributor and their insurance partners made a commitment to move toward an automated environment. Together, they improved operations without ...
Four Trends Driving Document Automation
[ Source: Oracle ]
November 2012-
This paper will describe four trends influencing EDA that help improve customer satisfaction, reduce cost and drive efficiency:
1. Empowerment: Giving customers real time web and mobile self-service options, while enabling business users to create dynamic communications
2. Leveraging analytics and business intelligence to improve efficiency and speed to market
3. Automating the document lifecycle to optimize processing and support high-volume printing
4. Consolidating EDA systems with the goal of reducing costs and centralizing ...
Changing the Rules of the Game: An Adaptive Approach to Core System Migrations
[ Source: Oracle Insurance ]
January 2012-
Improved speed to market, more competitive product offerings, better customer service - these are the advantages that come with replacing an aging policy administration system. So why do insurance companies still hesitate to undertake a replacement project? One reason is the risk involved in migrating from an old policy administration system to a new one. New ways of thinking about core system migrations, including data conversions, can help insurers reduce this risk and realize the ...
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.
The quality of customer communications ...
12.01.10 How Insurance Companies Can Benefit from Agile Development
[ Source: TechWeb ]
December 2010-
Agile development is being touted as a way insurers can reduce project risks and improve deliverables. Matt Josefowicz, Director of the Insurance Practice at Novarica, identifies the opportunities to leverage agile development in the insurance indust
2011 Insurance IT Budget Outlook
[ Source: TechWeb ]
November 2010-
The past year saw a cautious renewal of IT investment by insurance companies. With the economy showing more signs of recovery, will this trend continue in 2011? Matt Josefowicz, Director of the Insurance Practice at Novarica, offers his predictions.
SAS: An Information Roadmap for Insurers
[ Source: TechWeb ]
November 2010-
Industry consultant, Mark Gorman, presents a high level business information roadmap for insurers. Using this data management approach, insurers can optimize operations and performance, improve strategic decision making and enhance competitiveness.
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