Data and information management

Advice on some of insurance IT executives' biggest challenges, including data security, cloud computing, and recruiting and retaining talent was offered during a town hall meeting at last week’s IASA conference.

Research suggests many executives lack confidence in the outcome of their data analyses.

While it sounds like a marketing buzzword, data lakes offer an alternative to enterprise data warehouses.

To increase market share and increase relevancy, Accenture says insurers must plan for the blurring between the digital and physical world, the rise of crowdsourcing, the advent of the data supply chain and three other trends.

While insurers have spent years and millions of dollars acquiring or replacing information systems, there is a lack alignment between companies’ business and IT organizations, according to a panel at America’s Health Insurance Plans Institute.

The application is designed to simplify and automate photo documentation capture and filing.

For insurers, agent demand and claims efficiencies are contributing to a new sense of urgency to embrace mobile apps.

The business intelligence tools will offer key information to manipulate data and measure performance in an understandable format.

Insured Rating enabled insurer to release its AirCare product.

Broker places bloodstock risk electronically with insurer.

Indiana University, George Mason University, University of Virginia and five other institutions have launched or will be starting up data science programs in 2014, according to MastersInDataScience.org.

Opening up the data pipeline means new opportunities for insurers.

On day three at IASA’s 2014 Educational Conference and Business Show, we take a look at why all insurers should care about ORSA, and SMA's Karen Furtado evaluates the billing system market.

Tool is designed to enable insurers to transform financial data into actionable insights and analysis for investments.

On day two at IASA’s 2014 Educational Conference and Business Show, insurers discuss what they're doing to inspire new talent, and Novarica's Robert McIsaac identifies the biggest disconnect between IT and the business.

Insurance platform provider to implement BRIDGE for policy admin and consumer portal.

Partnership with the Insurance CRM analytics platform for connected car services offers wider distribution and savings to customers.

Insurer will implement underwriting, rating, illustrations and reports for its employee benefits and worksite products, plus sales and underwriting workbench.

Finding the right data and matching it to the right decisions is a fundamental necessity, and thinking three decisions ahead will set you and your company apart.

Learning fast from failure is a critical component to being able to compete against new and diverse challenges facing the insurance industry, note advisors.