Data and information management

Novarica polled insurers on their top 3 priorities for IT spend in 2017, aggregating the responses.

The U.S. is projected to generate the largest percentage of services spending throughout the forecast period.

A significant portion of overall spending is on unmanaged or self-managed infrastructure, study finds.

Blockchain is likely to play a major role in the reshaping of insurance, but many carriers are still in learning mode.

Truly infusing an insurance organization with data-driven decision-making cannot start with hiring external employees and building stand-alone departments. It must start with frontline employees.

Mark Keim has insurance experience from his time as global head of strategy and corporate development at Aetna.

QBE has suggestions for insurers to help investigate fraud cases using social media.

It's the third such incident in the past three years for the health insurer.

Robert Klaczak will leverage Lincoln’s digital, automation and data analytics capabilities to improve customer experience.

Several large insurers have been asked to rationalize their use of occupation in setting auto insurance rates, reports The Wall Street Journal.

The insurance software gains refined focus on UK, reinsurance markets with buys.

Softheon's product suite arms the Texas health insurer with improved enrollment and payment reconciliation capabilities.

The role of the chief data officer is rising in both numbers and clout. Gartner Group’s new study on “The State of the Office of the CDO” examines what this means for both the organization and the individual.

The Italian company looks to establish greater transparency between insurance providers and customers.

The Midwest carrier selects Valen Analytics to improve its risk assessment of individual policies.

Within companies transitioning to analytics-driven organizations, there are significant opportunities for frontline insurance professionals who can develop their data analytics knowledge and bring data-driven decision-making to their work and effectively collaborate with data scientists.

The Hawaiian insurer aims to standardize policy administration, billing and claims using Guidewire's cloud-based platform.

15 percent of successful CDOs will move into CEO, COO, CMO or other C-level positions, Gartner suggests.

As data is captured from diverse sources and in structured, unstructured and semi-structured formats, organizations are focusing on sophisticated BI technologies that can enhance data collection

Respondents to survey expect the continued rise of big data to cause the most disruption to the reinsurance industry over the next five years.