Data and information management

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.

Insurance aggregation platform looks to Informatica Cloud to accelerate process automation.

When "modern era" computer systems were developed decades ago, many didn't realize that they would still be running insurers' business in the 21st Century. Developers hardly foresaw what was to come. To compete today, insurers have two options: patch or replace. Well there is a third … obsolescence.

The vast majority of financial institutions do not believe their data technology is very effective, according to a global risk survey from Deloitte.

Front-end systems and devices for customer engagement are getting more sophisticated, but back-end integration challenges are preventing insurers from taking advantage of them, survey shows.

Among life/annuity insurers, distribution is an area increasingly attractive for analytics investments. More than half of life/annuity insurers surveyed by Strategy Meets Action say they're currently investing in analytics technology to supplement distribution.

By a wide margin, California led in luxury car thefts from 2009 to 2012, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.

Steven Zabel, former SVP of long-term care insurance, CFO of insurance products and SVP of audit for Genworth, will oversee Unum's enterprise risk management program.

Lack of confidence comes from not understanding their company’s exposure to operational, regulatory/compliance or financial risk, according to recent survey results.

Auto insurance today isn't as simple as it used to be "back "in the day". Technology has changed that paradigm, making it an all new high-tech ballgame! Telematics is here, it's real, it's growing, and you need to be ready for it.

Analytics embedded in latest version of bill review and repricing technology.

As fraud prevention technologies become more sophisticated, insurers need to invest at every customer touch point to achieve increased revenue growth, according to new research from Ovum.

Social media and mobile computing serve as a backdrop for several of Deloitte’s insurance tech trends and opportunities for 2013.

The second quarter of 2013 saw $2.2 billion of non-life catastrophe bonds issued through 14 tranches (representing 10 deals), compared with $2.1 billion issued in the same period last year, with 12 tranches (representing 7 deals), according to Willis Capital Markets & Advisory (WCMA), part of Willis Group Holdings.

New Enterprise 12.2 software includes iPad app and Risk Goggles, which are used to assess the risks and damages of various weather conditions.