Analytics

Allstate and XL Group are among the growing number of insurers with executive teams devoted to cleaning and organizing data to facilitate enterprise analytics initiatives.

Four tips on how to handle system users who are reluctant or openly resistant to change.

However, research from the New York Department of Financial Services found that actual data loss is not a common outcome of compromised systems.

Blue Yonder, founded in 2008, claims it has assembled the largest team of top data scientists in Europe. Here’s a peek inside the company’s Karlsruhe, Germany headquarters – which combines people, process, and plenty of data center horsepower.

All of Agile’s principal leadership now has moved into the Majesco organization.

Widespread use of mobile devices is driving insurers and other financial services firms to increase spending to protect data.

Fifty-five percent of P&C insurers surveyed by Towers Watson said that predictive analytics implementations have had a positive effect on customer retention.

IBM is in transition mode -- pushing beyond traditional hardware, software and IT services to more aggressively promote cloud, mobile, social and big data offerings.

Amazon Web Services now commands 28 percent of the cloud infrastructure market, followed by Microsoft, IBM, Google and Salesforce.com.

The costs to deal with the breach won’t hurt this year’s earnings outlook, in part because the company has its own insurance to cover such incidents.