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Aite Group report examines how financial services firms can utilize the growing channel.

In-memory analytics is blazing fast, but carriers also need to amplify human insight to realize the technology's potential.

With the health of investment portfolios an ever present concern, insurers should consider the tools they use to gauge financial health.

In an era of shifting demographics, economic unease and regulatory transformation, life insurers confront new risks.

As we look forward to a new year, the broad technology shifts bound to impact the insurance industry are already taking shape.

The focus for insurance industry innovations in 2011 includes business analytics and data warehousing, cloud-enabled software-as-a-service and new mobility solutions.

Torus Picks Guidewire for All its Segments

New report traces challenges insurers face when moving information from one system to another.

Trust will oversee the single-entry collaborative insurance placement platform and its data transfer between insurance agents and brokers and wholesalers and carriers.

Insurers on the hook for $36 billion—a 34% jump from last year, Swiss Re report says.

Insurers now have until December 3 to cast votes for their top technology solution providers.

FirstBest says the software will jump-start ease of doing business with agents and brokers, and pave the way for expansion.

Health care reforms, competition may slow growth and profitability, yet insures can insulate themselves from further damage, says report.

Information on 1.22 million members was contained on AvMed's two unencrypted, stolen laptops.

Nations are vying for the exascale computing crown, but are we prepared to handle the speeds at which our computers will function?

The mobile Web is evolving at an extraordinary rate, and each evolution has brought new possibilities to insurers. Can they keep up?

ReMetrica is designed to enable reinsurers to enhance their internal models and deliver accounting reports for regulators.

Business process outsourcing and Software-as-a-Service use will rise in 2011, according to a new Celent report.

A study by a UK insurance aggregator revealed some possibly shocking results.

Unlike their CFO brethren in other industries, financial services execs' expectations still tempered by economy and regulatory issues.

New study shows enterprises continue to adopt social software and can forecast ROI.

Insurer associations continue to speak out about consequences from the new medical loss rules enacted Monday.

Verdict's outcome still unknown for Oracle's insurance customers using PeopleSoft and JD Edwards software.

Browser-based solutions provider says the expansion is due to its rapidly growing client base.

As November 30 deadline approaches, insurer voting continues as INN and Celent partner on INN’s 5th annual ranking of tech solution providers.

New report examines investment challenges for insurers in the wake of the financial crisis.

CIO group outlines recommendations for cloud deployment, preparation.

Former ACLI head and soon-to-be American Bankers Association chief pledges to take a bipartisan approach when he takes office in January.

Private clouds still present the same maintenance and hardware costs that companies have been struggling with all along, say some industry analysts.

S&P revised its outlook on Allstate from to stable from negative, Moody’s affirms Gen Re, Fitch affirms Humana, A.M. Best upgrades Zurich and its subsidiaries.

The experience rating plan (ERP) will provide carriers with a way to reflect how a risk's loss experience compares to an industry benchmark.

Many in financial services worried the term will give the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau license to crack down wherever it sees fit.

Overall mobile worker preferences and behavioral characteristics across age groups and geographies are actually quite similar, making the cross-generational tech chasm in the workplace a falsehood. Such are the findings of a quarterly Mobile Workforce Report issued by Redwood Shores, Calif.-based iPass Inc., a provider of enterprise mobility services.

New Celent report charts the evolution of underwriting systems for life insurers.

Report of Internet traffic hijacking highlights danger.

Willis Re has established a long-term relationship to develop solutions for risk scenarios using services from SpatialKey, a provider of SaaS-based location intelligence technology. The reinsurance broker will use SpatialKey to help its insurance clients better assess the composition of their portfolios and identify their exposure to natural and man-made hazards, including hurricanes, terrorism, tornados, and wildfires, the solution provider says.

Insurers express concern as amount they spend on medical care is now dictated by HHS regulations.

Despite the abundant risks facing U.S. property/casualty carriers these days, exposure to municipal bond losses is one that shouldn’t be keeping insurers up at night.

More than 50% of health providers surveyed expect to increase their IT spend, says Beacon Partners.

Robert Wood Johnson report offers modeling approaches for states analyzing what their health insurance exchange should be.

BlueWave Technology, a provider of claims management solutions, and SpeedBuilder Systems LLC, a policy administration solution provider, announced a strategic marketing and technology agreement.

New report says estate tax confusion and legacy systems are major challenges for the industry in the year ahead.

The mutual insurer will implement CSC's systems for its life and personal and commercial P&C lines of business.

Marshall & Swift/Boeckh to provide cost information for estimating property claims.

With a firm foundation for cloud computing laid in 2010, Forrester analysts predicts 2011 will be a landmark year for technology.

Banks seeking laundry list of carve-outs that would give financial institutions so many exceptions from the rule that it might as well not exist at all.

While purchasing property insurance online is still in its infancy compared to the auto insurance market, the time is ripe to increase property quotes and purchases.

CEO Kelly predicts “opportunities” for a share sale.

Moody's says the industry regained some of the ground it lost in early 2009.

As climate researchers turn verbal somersaults to explain their findings, insurers will remain perplexed over future weather patterns.

Critics pounce on $86 million insurers gave to Chamber of Commerce to fight health care reform.

More than two years after convictions, five former insurance execs take arguments to 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.