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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.

A new report reminds us not only that data is the lifeblood of an enterprise, but also that companies are often incredibly inefficient at managing that data.

The right strategy can make your organization agile enough to keep up with Solvency II and FASB/IASB requirements and standards.

Extreme approaches to BYOD belie its basic enterprise appeal.

Some suggestions for seeking growth and profitability by matching external data sources with existing internal sources.

A new study from Deloitte outlines what employees want, and it takes more than social media and new technology to deliver it.

The importance of agile mobile- and Web-based interfaces and why agents are fighting for protected agent-carrier communication paths.

Despite excitement surrounding the topic, lack of expertise and understanding regarding big data analytics tools are holding back its potential.

At Monday’s morning session on the FIO at the Insured Retirement Institute’s Government, Legal and Regulatory Conference in Washington, D.C., John Fielding—a counsel in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he is a member of the Government Affairs & Public Policy practice focusing on insurance and financial services legislative and regulatory matters—speculated that a tiff between the Office of the United States Trade Representatives (USTR) and the FIO may be stalling the document’s release.

In a new survey, marketers agree that a better relationship with the technology department will enable them to do more and get better results with their programs.

The many competitive advantages mobile can offer go to waste if you're using quick fixes to bring your back end up to speed.

Vendors are beginning to prepare for the growing demand for enterprisewide social CRM.

Insurers and consumers seem to disagree about what a website should focus on, and nowadays, the consumer is always right.