It's up to insurers to spot developers who can push the boundaries of mobile capabilities and serve customers dynamic functionality.

CIOs embracing outsourcing and blended staffing strategies must carefully evaluate their organization, partners and processes.

The trickle-down consequences of increased outsourcing and reduced developer footprints could be a severe lack of in-house talent.

Is crowdsourcing a legitimate, sustainable method of solving business problems?

Five-year deal for outsourced networking via BT Connect worth $47 million.

UK government compiles exhaustive list of open source alternatives to major software needs.

Great American Insurance Group (GAIG) has entered into a strategic relationship with India-based IT services provider HCL Technologies.

In an increasingly competitive technology vendor market, life insurers are gradually modernizing their policy administration legacy systems.

Survey results reveal 85 percent of insurers are outsourcing at least some work through variable staffing/staff augmentation, legacy app maintenance or data center/infrastructure management.

Print/mail outsourcing can relieve burdens, but insurers need to maintain effective customer communications.

Policy Studies Inc. (PSI) has a new business process outsourcing (BPO) service to help address the requirements—and deadlines—for implementing health insurance exchanges and marketplaces, the company reports.

For Tony Kerrison, the day has long passed when it made sense to question whether cloud computing had a place in financial services companies' IT plans. Kerrison has been one of the industry's cloud computing pioneers: In 2008 he helped create an internal cloud for data center servers at Merrill Lynch (back then it was referred to as "stateless infrastructure"). This year he took the helm of the Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council, a group of corporate technology buyers developing cloud standards for vendors.

McCamish Systems LLC and Pegasystems Inc. have announced a strategic alliance aimed at enhancing McCamish’s life insurance and annuity platform, VPAS Life.

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Society Insurance, a provider of workers’ compensation insurance, has selected CSC’s comprehensive legal management software, Legal Solutions Suite, as a Software as a Service (SaaS). Society will access the CSC-hosted offering online to improve consistency in legal matter planning and bill review.

Properly going through the steps leading up to an IT project, means that by the time actual work begins, the battle should be more than half over.

Yodil Inc., a provider of business intelligence, data analytics and management reporting to the insurance industry, has developed OneSource for Affirmative Insurance Holdings Inc., a writer of non-standard auto coverage. According to Yodil, OneSource is now in live production and interfaces with Affirmative's multiple systems to rate, quote and sell auto, home and ancillary products.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded CGI Federal Inc. (CGI), a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Group Inc., a $8.9 million, two-year contract to develop and implement the CMS Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight's Rate and Benefits Information System (RBIS). CGI Group is an information technology and business process services firm.

Outsourcing is still a multi-billion dollar industry, but the future is getting cloudy as the market braces for a transitional phase.

Appointments aimed at helping company provide support to insurers creating usage-based insurance products.