Data and information management

Some investigators suspect the attacks were part of a sweeping campaign to create a database on Americans that could be used to obtain commercial and government secrets.

The tool is designed to help brokers and their clients understand the market for group insurance and match the right products to an employer.

The company wants to help its brokers create a better product portfolio for the end customer.

Insurers clearly appreciate the greater insights into policyholder risk factors from connected cars and homes.

Liberty Mutual joins State Farm, Travellers and other insurers that have won exemptions to use drones for property inspections.

Claims is the perfect place to test emerging technologies, then build upon that foundation to truly reinvent the claims process.

The company says its fingerprick tests are as accurate as those done with blood drawn from a vein, and cost a fraction of its competitors’.

The company’s Electronic Inspection Reports help them speed up the application process and improve the customer experience – using big data.

Sure, big data can be overwhelming. To help simplify the conversation within your organization, here are 10 priorities for big data management – care of TDWI Research.

Payers have not been engaged in HIE development, despite the fact that their buy-in and active participation is vital to realizing the full benefits industry-wide, study says.

The smaller insurer’s hard work on customer and provider engagement technology has been cited as a key reason for Aetna’s interest and acquisition.

There’s no denying that there are a few exciting use cases of insurers truly leveraging big data, but it’s still extremely limited.

As the two companies consolidate IT, their valuable and voluminous data will revolutionize their risk assessments and customer interactions, industry experts say.

Between now and the effective date of the merger, there will be a lot of planning focused on efficiencies and platform rationalization, cloud, SaaS, data management/stores, analytics and more.

To boost efficiencies and innovation, global insurers are expected to increase IT spend to more than $100 billion in 2015, but how does this forecast translate for the insurance world?

The companies' complementary, rather than competitive, risk management practices can leverage technology to get a clearer picture of risk for insurance carrier clients.

As the FAA has simplified commercial drone licensing requirements, insurers have embraced the technology for claims, underwriting and customer service applications. INN's Senior Editor Chris McMahon reports.

Half of surveyed software developers don't feel they can work with the Internet of Things. Can insurers take the lead?

Experiment, but be careful of expensive, enterprise installations that are hard to extract later, and understand these types of projects can be more transient than other enterprise software.

Summer vacation is a great time to recharge your body -- and your mind. To achieve that latter goal, check out these 15 must-reads, which we culled from the Society for Information Management, plus faculty and administration members from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Here’s the lineup and a description of each tome.