Analytics

The drive for greater IT efficiency is delivering green data centers as a byproduct.

Amidst the security headaches, the technology that comes along with BYOD holds new possibilities for insurers.

Harnessing in-memory technology, XL Group expects to embed analytic decision management process and application systems across the organization.

Examples of insurance data breaches point to just how common they are, and what usually causes them—internal abuse and mistakes.

IT spending growth is expected to settle in at $2 trillion for 2012, according to IDC’s forecast of IT spending in 54 countries and more than two-dozen market segments, such as hardware, software, IT services and mobile.

SMA study finds customers, products, finance and investments next areas ripe for transformation.

Solution offers mobile applications enabled by cloud in an attempt to help business users achieve results.

More than half of insurers surveyed now use anti-fraud technology solutions, according to “The State of Insurance Fraud Technology: A study of insurer use, strategies and plans for anti-fraud technology,” from the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud and SAS. However the study found that while the majority of respondents (79 percent) said that special investigations units are the sponsors of anti-fraud projects, other departments typically control the project budgets, which could slow the implementation of the technologies, the study said.

As the technology has matured, so have the marketing messages supporting it.

New report indicates that the portion of the typical IT budget—in a number of industries, insurance included—allocated to outsourcing is up nearly 23 percent.