IOT/Telematics

As more AI applications emerge, the corporate database will evolve to support them.

CIO Scott Noerr is constructing a framework for digital innovation at the specialty carrier.

incumbent carriers turned to insurgent startups for telematics, big data and health and wellness initiatives, among others.

Rather than facing a simpler tech environment where the investment choices are obvious, it appears the insurance industry is at a point of inflection where the old established world may have to give way to the new.

ISPs aren't likely to risk the poor publicity or liability concerns that would come from restricting traffic from home-protection or health devices.

The new focus will be on the information that business users and business-focused analysts can utilize in their everyday decision-making.

Heavily contested move could have implications for the growing Internet of Things, an emerging technology popular among insurers.

Through the development of its AVA virtual assistant, the usage-based auto insurer is letting machines take over more insurance processes, with the goal of improving customer experience.

By 2021, more than 55 percent of spending on IoT projects will be for software and services, says Carrie MacGillivray.

There is no question that understanding the technologies themselves are important, but it is about what the technologies mean for customers, risks, and operations.