Data and information management

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.

Ratabase enables rating programs and product segmentation to be deployed quickly, CGI says.

BI app is designed to support management, underwriters, sales managers, regulators and actuaries, and is intended to make metrics and decision factors 100-percent transparent, company says.

IBM survey reveals best practices of IT leaders.

StoneRiver will act as a reseller; 4Sight capabilities include the ability to create and run ad-hoc reports, dashboards and scorecards and mine data to gain insight for better decisions, the companies said.

With the volume and speed of data generation, big data technologies can help companies make business decisions and respond to market conditions quickly.

To turn new technologies into profits and growth, marketing and IT will need to change how they work—and how they work together.

An internal center of excellence can help to identify the data elements and technology requirements.

Advanced analytics can transform how insurers do business, but realizing its potential requires complex, large-scale organizational changes.