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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Enabling Faster Product Innovation for a Leading LTC Provider [ Source: Infosys ]

November 2010- A joint venture of two top insurance companies operating in the US was looking to minimize the time-to-market of new products as well as enhance and improve its existing ones. Infosys used its RPI solution framework, to empower business users, externalize... product parameters and introduce the 'building block' approach to product construction. This helped the client introduce new products and revise existing products faster.

A Hybrid Approach to Detecting Insurance Fraud [ Source: TechWeb ]

September 2010- SAS insurance fraud detection expert James Ruotolo describes powerful new software solutions for identifying insurance scams, stemming losses due to fraud and improving insurance companies' bottom lines.

Decision Matrix: Selecting a Business Process Management Vendor [ Source: Progress Software ]

August 2010- Savvion’s performance in the BPM Decision Matrix benchmarking proves that small, specialist vendors can excel in this format. Founded in 1994, Savvion was privately-held until January 2010, when it was acquired by Progress Software.

Over the last decade and a half, Savvion has garnered a reputation for innovation, embracing all process patterns, regardless of whether they are centred on documents, systems, human interactions, projects, decisions, cases or events.

Today, Savvion’s BPM ...

What Is Changing the World of Insurance? [ Source: Wipro Technologies ]

April 2010- Insurance is the one of the oldest recognized industries in the world because from the very early times it has been the bedrock of human beings’ inherent need to explore trade, consume goods and establish relationships. Over the years, this industry has grown significantly, with technology playing a key role in this growth. In 2008, the Insurance Industry accounted for 7% of the world’s GDP and according to estimates by leading industry player, Munich Re, it ...

P&C Industry - Technology Strategy after Financial Crisis [ Source: Mahindra Satyam ]

March 2010- As the year 2009 ended, the dust from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression has begun to settle. The depth and breadth of damage suffered by the U.S. and global economies is becoming apparent. From the P&C perspective, insurers saw their net income plummet and the net premium written trend also lowered. Insurers hoping for a resurgence of hard market in the 2nd half of 2009 realized that this was just wishful thinking. ...

Balancing the Scales Study from IBM [ Source: TechWeb ]

January 2010- In a study just released in 2009, the IBM Institute for Business Value worked with the largest IBM financial services research survey sample in its history, and from this work emerged an informed perspective on the characteristics that might be expec

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.

Insurers Look to Emerging Markets for Growth [ Source: TechWeb ]

November 2009- 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.