
Joe McKendrick
Dig In contributorJoe McKendrick is an author, consultant, blogger and frequent Digital Insurance contributor specializing in information technology.

Joe McKendrick is an author, consultant, blogger and frequent Digital Insurance contributor specializing in information technology.
Here's why cloud security liability should follow the model established by the scenarios of ultimate responsibility from car accidents.
Every insurer wants to join the app parade, but is it worth the trouble?
Despite the fact that social capabilities have been talked about for years, many companies struggle with enterprise integration.
The insurance industry relies on mainframes, but who will be running them?
As insurers turn to big data for answers, Oracle offers up six tips for easy integration.
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.
Recent studies place insurers in the middle of the pack in terms of social networking adoption, but are they getting enough out of it?
Examples of insurance data breaches point to just how common they are, and what usually causes theminternal abuse and mistakes.
There will continue to be gaps in analytic findings, to fill those gaps, insurers need to keep investing in the most powerful analytics system on the planettheir agent networks.
Data and cloud continue to pave the way to profitable initiatives such as telematics and customer management.
New survey finds corporate leaders lack 'digital literacy' and this holds back growth.
A recent survey points to a dramatic increase in confidence surrounding cloud storage, but a couple unique challenges persist. Here's how to mitigate them.
Much of the difficult work of cloud has already been sorted out in SOA. Unfortunately, SOA is often misunderstood.
Insurers, more so than companies in other industries, are now data companies that need to adjust IT talent and operations as soon as possible.
Blog: As IT talent retires, so does the system knowledge and business logic it carries with it.
While advances have been made, insurers need to remain vigilant when assessing the cloud security offered by providers.
IT projects tend to become riskier as the size of the project increases, to combat this, insurers should consider "chunking."
A new survey from CompTIA finds more than three out of five companies are adding new types of skillsets to their IT departments to keep up with growing cloud requirements.
Uncertainties abound when cloud comes into the picture; while some questions may be situational, here are 10 that help assess where and how cloud will be useful.