Joe McKendrick

SOA has seen a resurgence, largely because most insurers are contemplating a move to cloud – public, private, or hybrid – and need the supporting infrastructure to make it viable.

To compete for skilled IT pros in this reviving economy, insurers will to market themselves as great places to work, and offer open, flexible working arrangements, likely with compensation tied to performance.

Cloud computing may help meet some the challenges that are arising from Big Data.

Shockingly, there is a stunning disconnect between consumers who are increasingly concerned about data breaches and the boards responsible for preventing them.

Idea management systems are just one option for insurers looking to innovate and stay ahead of the competition.

The emerging social aspect to MDM makes insurers’ strategies around collecting and retaining data gleaned from social media engagements all the more important.

While cloud may have turned the IT world upside down, the basics of business continuity remain the same.

Social media may still be thought of as a separate emerging technology by insurers, but soon it will be the norm.

While the number of records breached dropped from 2009, the overall number of breaches rose to its highest-ever level.

Good governance is the key to keeping MDM initiatives on track at Protective Life.

Linux revolutionized the software distribution model to the point where we now also have open source databases, middleware, development tools and even business intelligence tools.

The industry, on the whole, is less profitable than it was 40 years ago. So how do we turn it around?

The Epsilon breach should make insurers question how their data is being protected once it’s outsourced.

One insurer has already gone Lean, and is reaping the rewards.

Master data management is insurers’ best recourse to unlock the siloed data often associated with multiple applications for each line of business.

Much like how SOX spurred IT spend at the beginning of the last decade, the federal health care reform law is sparking a similar trend.

As experts express their opinions on the topic, the only consensus is that “Big Data” is a very fluid term.

Aflac’s situation with comedian Gilbert Gottfried’s Twitter comments about the Japanese disaster has shown that insurers must develop well-defined and well-communicated social media usage policies.

With mobile computing, employees in the field can access executive dashboards or alerts that impart streams of critical information.

Cloud computing can be an enabler of entrepreneurship and organizational transformation.