Joe McKendrick

From the portal rollout chaos to confusion and politicking, insurance CIOs can draw some important lessons from U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ tenure.

A survey finds that mobile devices may soon dominate computing in financial services organizations.

Allstate pursues “synchronized thinking” toward technology.

Simpler, faster, better and cheaper — four words that may reshape insurance systems.

There are a range of application types that probably should be moved to the cloud simply because they are commoditized, routine functions that are best handled by someone else.

ROI is often too difficult to explain in dry techie terms.

Without adequate storage, there is no big data.

For many insurers, the road seems to begin with beefing up their data analytics.

Does the rise of virtual work mean more stress and overwork?

One out of five companies now consider themselves to be mobile enterprises. Here's how they did it.

The tools and methodologies for cloud security are readily available.

Data analytics is a potent tool for bolstering carriers' relationships with agent networks.

Cloud can either divide or unite companies. When united, enterprises achieve great agility and innovation.

Either way, insurers need to ensure that they offer professionals great places to work and learn.

Cloud is cheap up front, but full of hidden costs. Here are eight potential "gotchas"

APIs are the new big thing for technology innovation, and they literally are everywhere.

Mobile and cloud accelerate the evolution of ECM tools.

Cloud may replace many on-premises functions.

Competitive advantage comes from being able to answer any question at any time.

One out of four cloud vendors may not be around a year from now. Will your data be there?