Data and information management

Third parties manage 70 percent of private systems, and that figure is on the rise, according to a report from Technology Business Research.

The rate increase proposals from the six most popular insurance plans on the New York state health insurance exchange represent only what the insurers would like to see, and state officials can still mandate insurers accept lower premiums than those requested.

Joe Caserta, founder of big data consulting company Caserta Concepts, discusses how to overcome the the initial challenges of big data and thoughts about Hadoop and other initiatives.

Risk Score is designed to analyze loss-free policies and deliver loss ratio improvements.

The alliance is established to help analyze cyber risks for small and midsize businesses.

Worldwide public cloud services revenue reached $45.7 billion in 2013 and will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 23 percent through 2018.

Consolidation and fluctuating returns have complicated risk management, creating new technology priorities for insurers, according to Novarica study.

The companies plan to make large structured and unstructured datasets – including operational, video and sensor data – more accessible to organizations for insight-driven decision-making.

The use of smartphones and laptops is widespread among enterprises, with nearly three out of every four organizations issuing corporate-owned laptops and smartphones to their workforces.

Data scientists and 180,000 members of Kaggle's community will have an opportunity to solve analytic challenges in FICO Analytic Cloud platform.

Insurers should be in the business of making life safer and better for consumers all the time.

Spending was subdued, as clients took advantage of intense service provider competition and cheaper cloud computing and as-a-Service offerings to reduce their service delivery costs.

Endpoint detection and response solutions and big data security analytics at the heart of next-generation security platforms are two of the top 10 technologies Gartner says organizations need to fully engage.

There is a role for both types of CIO, each organization has different priorities whether they’re an insurer, intermediary, vendor, start-up, etc.

The system was about 190 miles south-southwest of Cape Fear, North Carolina, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said in an advisory at 5 a.m. local time.

More than 88 percent of survey IT professionals in a recent survey expect ransomware to increase for the remainder of the year, compared to 66 percent in January.

Insurers can learn from the use of activity tracking in other fields to help their customers make better decisions.

Pro General will use 4Sight's ad-hoc reporting capabilities, predefined data layouts and capabilities around reports and dashboards to have advanced analytical reporting with detail drill downs.

At the top of the list are pricing challenges stemming from complex pricing models and hidden fees.

The partnership will enable testing on real devices in the cloud and speed the mobile app time to market, the companies say.