Digital Platforms

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Property and liability insurer replaces an outdated legacy policy, claims and billing management system.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

Under the proposal, 95 percent of customers who purchased plans through the federal website will be automatically renewed, unless they seek changes.

Half of the executives surveyed in a new report say their organizations have bring-your-own-device programs, and the growth of BYOD raises questions about how often policies should be updated and communicated to employees.

The formation of an El Niño and cooler than normal sea-surface temperatures in the Atlantic Main Development Region could suppress hurricane formation and severity.

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois, a subsidiary of Health Care Service Corp. and the state’s largest insurer, signed up 92 percent of all 217,500 enrollees between October and mid-April.

Sam Medina begins a 3-part series on Transforming the IT Investment Budget in order to fund new programs and initiatives without the necessity of additional capital expense.

Life insurance in advanced economies will return to growth this year as sales in the United States reverse a contraction, spurring returns for providers.

Bill recognizes some consumers may need or want to buy health insurance off the exchange without having had a special qualifying event.

The state is considering defaulting to HealthCare.gov, even as it pours millions of dollars into a last-ditch attempt to fix its dysfunctional HIX.

All companies are aware of the growing risk of cyberattacks, yet few are taking the steps necessary to protect critical information. The key? Senior managers need to lead.

This growing combination of real-time data collection from remote sources, wireless connectivity and analytics could affect virtually every aspect of insurance.

The increase in time being spent interacting online via social media channels represents one of the greatest new business opportunities of all time. But for the insurance industry, it may represent one its greatest challenges.

By 2015, most mobile applications will synchronize, collect and analyze deep data about users and their social graphs, according to Gartner Inc.

Satisfaction highest among 'Loyal Advice Seekers;' Auto-Owners, State Farm and The Hartford lead the pack, J.D. Power says.

Most had been without coverage for at least two years and 72 percent decided to buy health insurance because of the Affordable Care Act, according to Kaiser Family Foundation.

The new world of metadata is like the old world of metadata except that it has many more data sources – and just like data from packaged software, the business has no control over the data definitions of the new sources.

The applications will be deployed using the company’s SaaS platform.

By unlocking the value of petabytes of patient-specific data, health insurance plans will be able to help members to achieve their health care goals, says presenter at America’s Health Insurance Plans Institute 2014.

Fifty-six percent of health insurers responding to the survey said they will use a single-carrier private HIX as a sales channel for their products before year's end.

Insurers reveal what technology initiatives are on their horizons and what technological challenges keep them up at night.

Global risks remain and insurers still need government backstop, according to Guy Carpenter; reform bill raises trigger for attacks.