Core systems

Many consumers still don’t feel comfortable using mobile insurance applications and many consumers don’t even know if their insurers offer a mobile app.

I/B/E/S Guidance will offer more complete results for WRDS subscribers.

Why do so many companies fail to treat their data like a high-value and potentially difference-making asset?

Using the Insuritas E-InsuranceAISLE technology platform, Overstock.com, a discount online retailer has added insurance to its growing inventory of offerings.

Industry experts opine on emerging technologies and their impact on insurance practices, liability and implications for consumers.

Looking back on the first open enrollment, just what worked and what lessons were learned to raise the number of enrollees further for 2015?

Aetna and Humana will also join an effort organized by the Health Care Cost Institute that builds on steps the Obama administration has taken to shed light on prices charged by health care providers.

Merchants expects to have a single, managed solution to translate and deliver policy and commission data to agency partners.

Health insurer intends to use analytics platform to increase customer engagement, benefits usage and customers’ health.

The companies will develop an integrated OneShield claims component for the suite.

There’s not enough adequate data from exchanges to confidently submit 2015 ACA pricing plans by the May 31 deadline, according to a Munich Health study.

To stay relevant, insurers must upgrade systems to support multichannel sales, marketing and service requests, direct sales and make use of big data, according to Swiss Re.

Both life/health and property/casualty insurers continue to focus on policy administration system projects and many are opting for hosted solutions.

P&C suite includes policy administration, claim and billing and will be will be hosted by the Accenture Cloud Platform.

New business models will emerge as an important trend defining ways for businesses to monetize new opportunities, the firm says.

Now in its ninth year, the award program has detailed the extraordinary efforts of more than 70 professionals whose leadership has set the standard for the application of technology in the insurance business.

While analytics offer opportunities for increased profitability and effectiveness, 90 percent of insurers live in “data chaos,” and a lack of integration presents major hurdles for insurers.

Requirements will reshape and expand more than half of all global enterprise IT security programs by 2020 due to changes in supported platform and service scale, diversity and function.

Insurer groups this week shared ACA reform ideas with Congress, including the creation of a copper plan.

Murli Buluswar says how you learn is more important than what you know, and that while data science is going to drive enormous changes in the industry, influence is about more than the numbers.