Data and information management

Blue Yonder, founded in 2008, claims it has assembled the largest team of top data scientists in Europe. Here’s a peek inside the company’s Karlsruhe, Germany headquarters – which combines people, process, and plenty of data center horsepower.

Survey by Employers Holdings shows that companies need to create healthier environments.

All of Agile’s principal leadership now has moved into the Majesco organization.

Widespread use of mobile devices is driving insurers and other financial services firms to increase spending to protect data.

Fifty-five percent of P&C insurers surveyed by Towers Watson said that predictive analytics implementations have had a positive effect on customer retention.

IBM is in transition mode -- pushing beyond traditional hardware, software and IT services to more aggressively promote cloud, mobile, social and big data offerings.

Amazon Web Services now commands 28 percent of the cloud infrastructure market, followed by Microsoft, IBM, Google and Salesforce.com.

The costs to deal with the breach won’t hurt this year’s earnings outlook, in part because the company has its own insurance to cover such incidents.

Companies need to start encrypting personal information, especially important data such as Social Security numbers, and storing it more securely.

The HHS Office for Civil Rights Web site of large breaches lists more than 90 major incidents of hacking, which have become much more prevalent during the past two years. Here are the 10 largest healthcare hacking incidents to date.

Individuals affected by the Anthem health information breach should be wary of emails or calls they receive.

Early in its investigation of a major cyber attack, health insurer Anthem shared much of what it knew with other health industry stakeholders, all of whom participate in the HITRUST Cyber Threat Intelligence and Incident Coordination Center.

When the country’s second-largest health insurance company is hacked leaving the personal information of 80 million people vulnerable to identity theft, it’s a watershed moment that cannot be ignored. There is no doubt that this data breach is a wake-up call for a healthcare industry that is lacking when it comes to information security.

The information compromised includes names, birthdates, Social Security numbers, street and e-mail addresses and employee data, including income, Anthem said.

Social, mobile, analytics, big data, cloud and digital strategy soon will be basic capabilities, and insurers that get bogged down in ROI studies could miss opportunities.

The specialty insurer has established a group for catastrophe engineering and analytics, under the leadership of a former AIR Worldwide executive.

The regulatory group has established a task force to evaluate the insurance industry’s skill at protecting sensitive customer data.

A looming labor shortage in insurance has led several industry players to launch a campaign to increase the sector's visibility and desirability while promoting science, technology, engineering and math.

Inadequate systems outranked talent and capital resources in a Towers Watson poll of insurer pain points.

Four steps CIOs need to take to lead insurance organizations to greater “customer obsession.”