Data and information management

Becoming a digital insurer is a long-term endeavor, but can open doors to the new possibilities.

Peter Hahn, head of predictive analytics for Zurich North America, shares his insights on successfully finding, hiring and keeping people with the hottest skills.

New offerings target MGAs, TPAs, workers comp, self-insureds and mutual carriers

Forrester Research believes that a growing number of businesses will build smart applications atop the open source Big Data platform in the coming year.

J.D. Power and RIMS report that large business commercial insurance customers are most satisfied when insurers and brokers deliver on customer service, price and claims.

Digital competition may dictate a new organizational architecture in which emerging digital processes coexist with traditional ones.

Even in technology, good things may take time.

The provider of software, hardware and insurance products has bought 640 Labs to offer farmers data tools that can help them maximize yields.

The software solutions are intended to help the P&C insurer boost customer service and time to market by streamlining underwriting, policy admin, claims and business intelligence.

Mobility, agility and the Internet of Things are driving enterprises to invest in more efficient and agile approaches to integration, according to research and consulting firm Ovum.

In response to the growing important of data in underwriting, pricing and operations, the global carrier creates a new enterprise-wide leadership role.

With two previous attempts behind it, a well-known IT consultant explains how specialty insurer AEGIS was able to deploy Pegasystems and revamp its entire underwriting process.

89 percent of executive surveyed by General Electric and Accenture said that companies that do not adopt a big data analytics strategy in the next year risk losing market share and momentum.

Celent finds that U.S. and UK consumers are willing to share data about themselves under the right circumstances.

Cloud computing will continue to transform the computing landscape in 2015. In the following slides, Forrester Research pinpoints the key trends and their impact going forward.

Smartphone applications and devices that record trip and vehicle data are set to infiltrate auto insurance at a rapid pace, bolstered by discounts of as much as 30 percent.

Collaboration between academia, industry organizations, businesses, and leaders will be critical to making sure that new IT professionals will be excited and ready to join the insurance industry and contribute to its future as Next-Gen Insurers.

Joseph Murphy will take the reins of the malpractice insurers’ underwriting and risk management operations.

A Forrester Research survey found that cost savings is no longer the primary driver for leveraging cloud services.

Previous initiatives have studied social media causal monitoring, learning and revenue optimization, equipment failure prediction, and fraud detection and prevention.