Analytics

Madison, Wis. — American Family Insurance has restructured its information services division, the company reports. The move comes as a result of a study of technology leadership organizations at Fortune 500 firms, a company spokesperson said, and reflects a growing trend in Tier 1 insurance companies—restructuring of IT with the goal of optimizing business strategies and operational performance.

Pittsburgh — Computerworld magazine selected Pittsburgh-based Highmark Inc. as the top green-Information Technology Company for 2008 and WellPoint Inc., Indianapolis, came in at No. 12 on the list.

The insurance industry is partnering with academia in the use of some rather unique efforts to actively address the anticipated shortage of IT talent.

Turnersville, N.J. — The Computer Measurement Group (CMG), a not-for-profit worldwide organization of IT professionals committed to ensuring the efficiency and scalability of IT service delivery to the enterprise through measurement, quantitative analysis and modeling, is making its conference proceedings from 1997 through 2005 available to the public.

Competitors from unlikely verticals, a reduction in IT staff, and the ability to clean up data stores and use them to garner business intelligence are but some of the challenges insurers will face through the year 2012.

Business intelligence constitutes relevant, accurate, timely information that can be used in an integrated fashion.

It’s tempting to view STP implementation as an enterprise-scale undertaking, but the best approach may be step-by-step.

Foresight, and a focus on usability, will help those converting to straight-through processing reap dividends from the process.

A widening array of solutions is giving carriers more options to backup and safeguard their critical data.

Insurers with legacy systems face an uphill battle: find replacements for retiring IT workers or retire their legacy systems.