Data and information management

Extremely low interest rates for investments and years in which losses for reinsurers were relatively low are adding pressure on prices.

Record reinsurance capacity is driving growth capital for insurers.

More insurance companies are undertaking big data projects, especially in actuarial, product development, and underwriting.

Technology is getting smarter, faster. Are you? Experts including the authors of The Second Machine Age, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, examine the impact that “thinking” machines may have on top-management roles.

The effects can reaching from the hit to companies' and individuals' reputations and careers, morale and stock value, to the heavy toll on the customer service, operations and technology teams.

The latest cyber-attack highlights the importance of helping policy holders defend themselves.

Cloud can create efficiencies and protect their competitive position, according to survey by SAP and Ovum.

Insurers must catch up with other sectors in responding to cyber threats, says a panel of Deloitte experts.

Aon Risk Solutions also appoints new leadership in its Financial Services Group; Brian Wanat will serve as CEO for the U.S. Financial Services Group.

When it comes to rankings of the best places to work, insurers are few and far between. Here’s what those who make the lists do to appeal to IT professionals.

To breakthrough wellness and fitness tracking functions, iWatch must garner partnerships with healthcare industry stakeholders including providers and health insurers.

Cloud-based data and analytics products are becoming more common among technology companies, small and midsize businesses and departments.

Users are sticking with familiar consumer tools to share corporate documents and access them from mobile devices.

Before your data governance project turns into a nightmare, create a data governance team to help people understand and manage the big data challenge, not just their respective pieces.

Insurers lack data, tools to price new policies with confidence, according to Novarica report.

Increasing adoption of mobile technology, cloud services, social media and information will drive use of new security technology and services through 2016.

Study from Dresner Advisory Services also identifies an inverse relationship between the size of an organization and innovation, with the smallest companies among the most innovative.

Adaptive analytics can help insurers keep up with the flood of real-time data.

When IT can't deliver, business users build their own applications focusing on agility, flexibility and reaction times.

New task management tools improve automobile liability insurance reporting for carriers through a declined export and submission report.