Digital Platforms

The hurricane weakened to Category 1 upon landfall on the North Carolina Outer Banks.

The next phase of personal cloud will impact mobile, wearables, networking and cloud providers.

High performance claims handling could turn overlooked data into actionable information with considerable economic impact, Aite Group says.

The agreement covers Liberty Mutual Insurance’s potentially volatile U.S. asbestos and environmental liabilities, as well as commercial insurance’s workers’ compensation liabilities.

The bill, passed 93-4 today in Washington, now goes to the House, where Republican leaders propose cutting back the reimbursement for attacks involving conventional weapons.

ABI Research predicts that cloud platforms will generate $3.6 billion in mobile enterprise application revenue by 2019.

Revenue rose 7 percent, led by the company’s Optum unit, which has been credited with helping to fix Healthcare.gov.

Major shifts in the health care market will lead to disruptive and ever-changing changes, including private exchanges, and those that realize the change and adapt to it will be the ones that are successful.

Development and operations teams are under more pressure than ever to deliver software faster, more efficiently and at higher levels of quality, according to Enterprise Management Associates.

New functionality includes non-catastrophe risk analysis and an underwriting mode.

Bringing together clinical and claims data is a key to population management as the combination of data helps identify two-to-three times more patients for intervention services.

The two companies will work together to develop applications tailored to work with IBM’s data analytics and cloud services.

USAA, GEICO and RLI make the list for the 24th consecutive year.

P&C insurer intends to manage and control reinsurance business and related processes on a single platform.

The insurer will use ARC Logics’ regulatory change management, risk assessment and Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance functions.

18 states were given permission to opt out of SHOP’s employee-choice provision after determining it would produce adverse selection.

Financial institutions lead others in terms of purchases, according to Marsh.

Kaiser Family Foundation confirms industry suspicions that public exchanges would cover a sicker population than traditional avenues.

Life and annuity insurer rolls out new components to streamline application entry, case management and underwriting, and product calculation.

Insurer seeks to accelerate sales, service and policy delivery with electronic signatures.

CNA.com’s multimedia tools help visitors learn more about their business insurance needs.

Canadian firm will replace an internally built policy administration system to improve productivity and its ability to efficiently deliver products and services to customers.

Many consumers find health care websites tough to navigate and are not satisfied overall, says J.D. Power survey.

Property and liability insurer replaces an outdated legacy policy, claims and billing management system.

Using cross-functional teams to break down silos improves the chances of success when building highly complicated systems.

Third parties manage 70 percent of private systems, and that figure is on the rise, according to a report from Technology Business Research.

As media interest in health insurance exchanges decreases over time, the insurance industry will need to develop more effective communications to reach the uninsured.

The rate increase proposals from the six most popular insurance plans on the New York state health insurance exchange represent only what the insurers would like to see, and state officials can still mandate insurers accept lower premiums than those requested.

Risk Score is designed to analyze loss-free policies and deliver loss ratio improvements.

The alliance is established to help analyze cyber risks for small and midsize businesses.

Product lifecycle management and innovation management platforms also among the fastest growing through ‘18, according to Ovum.

MacNeill to use platform to empower retail agents in rating, quoting and writing new business.

Global natural catastrophe activity low for the first half of 2014. However, various blizzards in North America this past winter totaled around $3.4 billion, according to Munich Re.

Worldwide public cloud services revenue reached $45.7 billion in 2013 and will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 23 percent through 2018.

The new app will support industry reporting to European regulators.

Consolidation and fluctuating returns have complicated risk management, creating new technology priorities for insurers, according to Novarica study.

The use of smartphones and laptops is widespread among enterprises, with nearly three out of every four organizations issuing corporate-owned laptops and smartphones to their workforces.

Data scientists and 180,000 members of Kaggle's community will have an opportunity to solve analytic challenges in FICO Analytic Cloud platform.

Spending was subdued, as clients took advantage of intense service provider competition and cheaper cloud computing and as-a-Service offerings to reduce their service delivery costs.

Endpoint detection and response solutions and big data security analytics at the heart of next-generation security platforms are two of the top 10 technologies Gartner says organizations need to fully engage.

The Evolution of Insurance – The Friendly Society Evolves Sanjay Mohan describes the evolution of Insurance and how Insurance has always been about a "community" of customers. This blog highlights today’s market need for carriers to rediscover the consumer.

The system was about 190 miles south-southwest of Cape Fear, North Carolina, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said in an advisory at 5 a.m. local time.

More than 88 percent of survey IT professionals in a recent survey expect ransomware to increase for the remainder of the year, compared to 66 percent in January.

Last week, we discussed the reality that most IT organizations are making well-intentioned investments, but that their investment portfolio may be out of balance. To read last week’s blog,click here.

The temporary program has been called everything from a “subsidy” and “safety valve for consumers and insurers” to a “taxpayer bailout.”

Pro General will use 4Sight's ad-hoc reporting capabilities, predefined data layouts and capabilities around reports and dashboards to have advanced analytical reporting with detail drill downs.

At the top of the list are pricing challenges stemming from complex pricing models and hidden fees.

On the state-based marketplaces consistency results varied, while in the federal marketplaces 2.6 million of 2.9 million inconsistencies went unresolved.

iWorks Prophet GI is designed to help general and P&C insurers manage risk modeling.

The market generated 653.8 petabytes of new storage capacity shipments during the quarter, which was up 72 percent compared with the same period a year ago.

Organizations’ efforts to go digital—and drive growth through digitization—are picking up steam. But many have more work to do before they can scale their efforts and see material impact.

Sixty-eight percent of respondents feel their companies are actively promoting gender diversity.