Data and information management

CEOs and other senior executives are increasingly engaged as their companies step up efforts to build digital enterprises.

Data virtualization holds a lot of promise for minimizing data center woes, but it needs to be taken one step at a time.

Because CIOs are positioned at the nexus of the information flowing into and out of the company, the rise of big data provides them with a unique opportunity to demonstrate their strategic importance, according to Ernst & Young.

Specialty insurer to consolidate underwriting, policy administration, rating and billing in an attempt to improve scalability and lower expenses.

An outline of where and how insurers should be looking to use big data analytics throughout the enterprise.

Version 14 of RQE includes updates to financial and country/peril models, workflow and integration.

Less than half of respondents indicate that their organization has a plan for making use of the health data that’s available to them, according to a survey of CIOs and other C-level executives.

Expectations of extreme activity scaled back slightly, however

Passive observation and exploration are generally not enough in a complex business environment — innovation requires experimentation.

Over the course of three years, Aegis Insurance, a midsize mutual specialty commercial insurer, completed an overhaul of its legacy core systems. The result is a 50-percent reduction in the average time it takes to process a transaction, a 70-percent improvement in quoting and an 80-percent improvement in renewal processing.

Portals have come a long way. They serve a wide range of stakeholders, from prospects to policyholders to distributors, adjusters and others. They are the go-to places for information dissemination and collaboration, creating an experience of easy to do business with them. If you aren't providing a portal to your customers and partners today, time is running out.

While vendors are optimistic about revenue growth over the next few years, a new report from Aite Group urges them to do a better job of aligning with P&C carrier needs.

Updated models designed to include multiple price volatility catalogs and the ability to modify industry premiums by adjusting default values.

Insurer looks to replace legacy claims management system, implement enterprise data mastery technology.

The individual annuity market continues to be hyper-competitive, with technology playing an ever-larger role in insurers’ ability to attract, retain, and profitably serve clients, according to a new market trends report from Novarica, titled “Business and Technology Trends: Individual Annuity.”

Attunity Ltd., a leading provider of information availability software solutions, has announced a new partnership with HP as well as the availability of its enhanced Attunity Click-2-Load software for HP Vertica.

Composite rates for P&C, personal lines and other individual categories decline in the absence of CAT events

An insurer upgrades its data architecture and finds a competitive advantage through faster insights.

Five tips for developing an intelligent big data storage system.

The newly released data software is designed to offer 1,700 attributes to support new model development and refine segmentation.