Data and information management

Handled poorly, questions around data ownership, data quality and data security can sidetrack big data conversations and alienate business stakeholders.

Global costs from natural catastrophes were $125 billion in 2013, including $31 billion in insured losses, a number that is expected to increase.

Effisoft’s WebXL reporting tools provide stronger controls and dramatic productivity gains.

Most of those organizations surveyed use big data analytics to monitor equipment and assets to identify operating issues and enable proactive maintenance, according to a new study from GE and Accenture.

Eight Annual Vanguards in Insurance Practices Awards shines spotlight on the industry’s most innovative carriers and vendors.

Combining Perspecsys Cloud Data Protection and ClaimVantage Claims Processing provides insurers with a secure infrastructure for claims automation.

New SurePower Innovation functionality offers insurer clients improved data mining and reporting capabilities.

Legacy systems, while reliable, increasingly hold insurers back, a new study finds

Mutual of Enumclaw is using ProcessOne to improve customer payment processes and streamline reconciliation.

Federal health insurance exchange's performance should reflect major improvements over last year

So-called Risk-O-lator app allows teens to test their knowledge about risky driving behavior.

Insurers would be wise to learn these lessons before formulating a strategy to convert policies to a new policy administration system.

By 2016, the availability of capacity and performance management skills for horizontally scaled architectures will be a major constraint or risk to growth for 80 percent of major businesses, Gartner says.

It may be possible to provision key services with the click of a mouse, but benefits go well beyond that.

Demand for coverage has accelerated after some of the largest companies in the U.S. revealed that they’d fallen victim to cyber hackers.

Why many companies don’t do a good job of measuring the thing that clients value the most.

The partnership implements Towers Watson's DriveAbility 2.0 score, an analytical scoring model of UBI data offered from IMS' DriveSync connected car platform.

Assigning blame shouldn’t be the only strategy you have in case of a major data breach.

The compound-annual-growth rate of detected security incidents has risen 66 percent year-over-year since 2009.

The truth is that big data is only as good as the organization behind it; and despite the hype, everyone is not yet doing it.