Analytics

These tools and methodologies, such as Hadoop and MapReduce, can help insurers unlock the real potential of Big Data.

Analytics M&A streak continues as IBM picks up analytics provider with more than 180 clients, including Farmers Insurance.

FICO releases software aimed at improving recent survey results indicating 64 percent of insurers lack the ability to rapidly deploy or update models.

The carrier's first foray into the cloud came with security concerns that lead to more in-house control over compliance solutions.

'Bring your own device' means more productivity and better service to customers, but are they secure enough?

To remain relevant in an era of flat budgets and growing business demands, Ken McGee's second-day keynote at Gartners’s Business Intelligence Summit in Los Angeles called for a “CIO manifesto” in order for chief information officers to match the quality of business-initiated projects to the work of IT.

The fifth annual index found that 24 percent of respondents tried to resolve their property/casualty insurance issues online before calling their insurers directly compared to 21 percent for health insurance.

Data security threats evolve even as organizations successfully lock down their systems.

The results of a Mozy survey indicate that 85 percent of SMBs do not use remote, automatic online backup. Of those that do perform backups, the most prevalent methods are those that can most easily be lost, stolen, deleted or destroyed

Looking beyond ROI and hard benefits, insurers are turning to Web 2.0 concepts to invigorate internal operations.