Data and information management

The Verisk Telematics Data Exchange promises greater portability of usage-based insurance data across companies.

The Canadian insurer is allowing customers and advisors to opt for voice recognition over manual password entry in the contact center.

The Swiss telematics technology firm announced that its Telematics Analyzer now can integrate with any back-end system

The three new features are intended to enable deeper insights around driver behavior and profiles, the company said.

As the big data and cybersecurity markets converge with one another, each of these books examines new threats and new opportunities for data scientists who want to analyze and safeguard data.

Forrester Research analysts discuss the role of the chief data officer, the findings of a new report and their implications.

Big data software now is just a small part of the overall market for information management, but it is set to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 50% through 2019, acording to Ovum.

Corporate IT has lost the battle with shadow IT, and it’s time to embrace what that means for enterprises.

More than 80 percent of healthcare organizations have been compromised by cyber-attacks in past two years, according to KPMG.

Organizations are formalizing their use of big data and the capability should be core by 2019, Ovum reports.

To combat security issues, most organizations still depend on alerts and actual incidents. But that approach can lead to faulty data analysis.

The UK-based Insurance aggregator has launched a point-of-quote fraud detection and prevention service that combines its customer and quote database with Iovation’s Risk Solution, which assesses the likelihood of based on the current and past behavior of a smartphone, tablet or laptop.

The Beam dental plan aims to help policyholders get a clearer picture of their oral health using the company’s proprietary connected toothbrush.

Accenture describes the DISC as an innovation hub that showcases applications, Internet of Things devices, and enables clients to test digital insurance products through proof-of-concept pilots to validate offerings.

While I've tried to articulate how some organizations get big data "right," it's frequently more compelling to explain how others seem to be getting it terribly "wrong."

How do industry experts view the development of the Internet of Things, and what would they change?

Three-quarters of respondents to a Towers Watson survey of P&C claims leaders cited effective implementation of data and analytics as a challenge.

As insurance companies increasingly digitize their operations, reach out to customers via apps and online services, and employ big data analytics for everything from telematics to fraud prevention, any hiccups in software delivery may mean delays and losses.

Insurance companies face increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity challenges. Here's what leaders at major companies are doing to solve them.

Before you get deep into the specifics of master data management (MDM), it’s important to have an overarching approach to data governance. These eight data governance design principles were shared by Angie Pribor of First San Francisco Partners during the MDM & Data Governance Summit in San Francisco last week.