Relationship designed to bring BPO and business continuity services to small- to mid-sized P&C insurance carriers.

The 2011 ACORD/LOMA Systems Forum began Sunday with vendors concentrating on familiar themes, but also placing more emphasis on mobile tech than in previous years.

Insurance Networking News is proud to present its INN Newscast. This special video edition brings you exclusive coverage from day one of the 2011 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum in San Diego.Broadcast includes: • LOMA SVP Jeff Hasty discusses the life and annuity industry’s current challenges.• Monique Hesseling, head of personal lines/small commercial segment development for Zurich and the chairperson of the ACORD Standards Committee, breaks down the organizational changes at ACORD and what this means for insurers. • Attendees answer the question: Where within your own organization have you seen the most benefits from standards use? 

Cloud and mobile markets cause spike in open software, though barriers persist, a survey finds.

New report foresees double-digit growth in the use of business process outsourcing by insurers.

Improved economic conditions foster new interest in policy administration modernization projects by life carriers.

Production-ready offering designed to reduce carriers’ product launch time to weeks in all 50 states.

While cloud may have turned the IT world upside down, the basics of business continuity remain the same.

The sixth annual INN's Women in Insurance Leadership program profiles women insurance professionals whose leadership and performance has redefined their business and its application of technology.

What Impact is Mobility Having on Insurers?

Amazon's recent snafu resulting in outages among its EC2 customers' sites raises the question of how insurers should steel themselves for such a situation?

Despite the highly publicized breach, Alliance Data's Q1 net income surged 85% to $86.4 million, from a year earlier.

Gartner study identified cloud computing as the top strategic technology investment for CIOs.

Insurers attempting to "boil the ocean" when developing a successful BI initiative will fail every time.

Accenture has extended its contract to provide RSA UK with insurance business process outsourcing services for 4 more years.

Cloud computing offers a variety of advantages, but security concerns will grow with the technology.

The Epsilon breach should make insurers question how their data is being protected once it’s outsourced.

Names and e-mail addresses belonging to customers of many large companies were exposed when online marketer Epsilon was hacked.

With IT capital at a premium, hosted services are a natural fit for peripheral applications.

Of the nearly 2,000 deals totaling more than $200 billion in value, many involved players in the insurance technology space.