Data and information management

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.

iWorks Prophet GI is designed to help general and P&C insurers manage risk modeling.

The market generated 653.8 petabytes of new storage capacity shipments during the quarter, which was up 72 percent compared with the same period a year ago.

Eighty percent of health plan data is unstructured. Text mining can transform it into a format open to analysis.

Half of the financial services firms responding to a recent survey, 17 percent of which were insurance companies, said they have no mobile strategy of any kind.

The offering is designed to enable clients to get up and running in 30 days or less across cloud and dedicated architectures.

The formation of an El Niño and cooler than normal sea-surface temperatures in the Atlantic Main Development Region could suppress hurricane formation and severity.

Insurers increasingly recognize that cloud services can also codify customer data and foster new business opportunities.

Insurers already immersed in the cloud share their steps to success.

In today's competitive marketplace, insurers must be able to measure what's working and what isn’t with their mobile engagements.

Mobile opens up new avenues of interaction with customers, as well as adding a new dimension to internal operations.

All companies are aware of the growing risk of cyberattacks, yet few are taking the steps necessary to protect critical information. The key? Senior managers need to lead.

This growing combination of real-time data collection from remote sources, wireless connectivity and analytics could affect virtually every aspect of insurance.

The increase in time being spent interacting online via social media channels represents one of the greatest new business opportunities of all time. But for the insurance industry, it may represent one its greatest challenges.

By 2015, most mobile applications will synchronize, collect and analyze deep data about users and their social graphs, according to Gartner Inc.