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Potential voluntary federal guidelines foretell a future that may require keeping a close eye on the balance between collaboration and control.

The global financial crisis and subsequent economic developments have brought to light critical weaknesses in existing hedge programs.

The insurance industry relies on mainframes, but who will be running them?

Bridging data from the carrier's system to the agent system in real time removes several barriers to agent/carrier relations.

As insurers turn to big data for answers, Oracle offers up six tips for easy integration.

The rare yet emerging data scientist is a hybrid of data hacker, analyst, communicator and trusted adviser, making him a powerful asset to an insurance organization.

Dissecting the consumer experience to find the most important touch points and evaluate brand harmony can say a lot about a brand's ability to garner loyalty.

The drive for greater IT efficiency is delivering green data centers as a byproduct.

Online consumer research and aggregators are again changing the way insurers approach the market, how can insurers stay focused on the consumer experience?

Amidst the security headaches, the technology that comes along with BYOD holds new possibilities for insurers.

Faced with vetting the merits of existing and emerging technologies, IT is also being asked to recommend cost-saving ways of generating new business.

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 them—internal abuse and mistakes.

Hear enough examples of companies employing technologies for reasons beyond serving the same old markets, and you begin to see some trends.

Margins, claims exposures, expense controls and investment returns are driving struggling carriers back into the M&A game.

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 planet—their agent networks.

Emerging technologies and the business changes they require upon implementation were the main topics of discussion at Celent's recent peer networking event.

As the technology has matured, so have the marketing messages supporting it.

Data and cloud continue to pave the way to profitable initiatives such as telematics and customer management.

IT managers and data architects can take steps to make sure data applications get same level of testing as software.

“Frankenstein”—a proposed self-camouflaging malware propagation system—represents a challenge and an opportunity for insurance IT and risk management professionals.

New survey finds corporate leaders lack 'digital literacy' – and this holds back growth.

At this year’s Celent’s Insurance Symposium-Creative Disruption: Technology and the Future of Insurance, three insurers will take to the stage to give us attendees “some” and “more” disruption from the past, present and future.

Progressive, The Hartford among the companies honored recently by the Applied Systems Client Network for being on the cutting edge of agent-carrier communications and technologies.

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.

If your data quality is suffering, testing can optimize processes and ensure effectiveness.

Much of the difficult work of cloud has already been sorted out in SOA. Unfortunately, SOA is often misunderstood.

How do business and IT best accomplish the needs of their organization? We might take a lesson from a systems engineer.

Insurers, more so than companies in other industries, are now data companies that need to adjust IT talent and operations as soon as possible.

Disaster recovery and business continuity plans can lure companies into a false sense of security; there's only one way to make sure your business is prepared.

How a start-up telematics insurer is allowing U.K. insurers to look at young drivers completely differently.

This week, the insurer found itself at the mercy of the Internet. While social analytics is set to take off in coming years and monitoring social networks for feedback is increasingly seen as essential in this era of consumer-centrism, this is an uncanny example of why these initiatives need to be fully embraced.

Delays in updating risk management only serve to damage credibility and open the door to unnecessary dangers.

Blog: As IT talent retires, so does the system knowledge and business logic it carries with it.

Although it happened nearly 20 years ago, business leaders can still use the lessons learned from Lou Gerstner's IBM overhaul.

While advances have been made, insurers need to remain vigilant when assessing the cloud security offered by providers.

IT needs to play a critical role when analytics is used pervasively throughout the enterprise, and business has an obligation to communicate expectations and trumpet its success.

IT projects tend to become riskier as the size of the project increases, to combat this, insurers should consider "chunking."

One way to practically screen for potentially significant threats is to evaluate prospective ones against an insurer's exposure concentrations.

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.

A bus tour brings agents and insurers together to discuss what each side can do to further the ambitions of the other.

With the costs and risks of dealing with closed insurance blocks increasing over time, insurers need to begin planning ahead.

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.

Breaking down the barrier between IT and business mindsets needs to come from a mutual understanding of an organization's collective goals.

Insurers' measured moves to the cloud are building confidence in the platform as concerns move from security to risk management.

A recent survey found cyber attack to be among the world's top five threats, which means insurers have a big responsibility to help others, as well as themselves.

Study indicates outperforming organizations are twice as effective at accessing and drawing insights from data.

Customer expectations are growing fast; social media can be the bridge from frustrated consumers to knowledgable representatives.

For the Army and Air Force Mutual Aid Association to modernize its mainframe, BPM is the key.

This easy-to-interpret way of organizing data visually has taken off in other industries—insurance is starting to catch on.

Tech-savvy businesses are doing more and more to keep themselves ahead of the curve, but these 12 guidelines can help companies catch up.

Tech giants taking turns this Summer outlining the next several years of advancements.