Analytics

Effective deployment of information technology will be a difference-maker for insurers.

West Bend hopes to adapt the program as a rating engine for all of its lines of insurance.

Black Hat was set to expose Chinese cyber-attack capabilities until big-money agencies stepped in to silence them.

Insurers watch and wait as Microsoft looks to standardize cloud services around its Azure platform.

Sales analytics tools offer insurers significant benefits, says Aberdeen.

The insurer believes an analytics-based strategy is the future of customer relationships.

The Department of Health and Human Services says it wants "well-intentioned providers to become meaningful users of electronic health records."

SunGard, in collaboration with Microsoft and HP, has created a new enterprise risk management (ERM) framework that will help support insurance companies' Solvency II (SII) compliance initiatives. The three companies have identified and packaged in the framework technology components and consulting services (SunGard's iWorks ERM solution, HP's consulting services and infrastructure portfolio, and Microsoft's HPC and SQL servers) that can help insurance customers define and implement a comprehensive ERM technology framework that supports SII requirements, reports SunGard.

Allegient Systems’ Expense and Reporting Management Suite will provide Southern Pioneer with legal bill review and performance management services.

Annual survey shows fewer implementations this year; management reporting a priority.