Data and information management

Social media and digitization have made it easy to get closer to customers; the question is how to use that knowledge and access without becoming invasive.

As investments in data technology rise, so does the urgency to find talent to manage it, which has some in the industry pointing to chief data officers.

Catastrophes are now a part of the New Normal. While there's nothing we can do to change the weather or other natural disasters, there are steps insurers can take to prepare themselves and their customers for what may come.

Cognizant, a provider of IT, consulting and business process outsourcing services, and XL Group, a global P&C, professional and specialty insurer, announced a mobile-enabled risk-engineering platform for Global Asset Protection Services (GAPS), XL Group’s property loss prevention services business.

Support of Microsoft SQL Server has been added to The Innovation Group’s Insurer Suite. It has been validated with performance and efficiency testing in Microsoft's Redmond labs, Innovation Group said.

Insurers in the Software Business: The line between software providers and consumers is blurring

Product changes currently require multiple systems, which drags on time-to-market metrics. That’s why many are eyeing core-product configuration solutions, according to new SMA research.

New capabilities designed to enable an improved view of risk, regulatory requirements, and assist companies in investment decision-making.

Despite recent crash of Asiana B777 aircraft, rating levels continue to decline and premium levels are down 5 percent on the year.

Clients and brokers are being provided with access to ACE's platform for electronic delivery of policies.

If you lead, they will follow, or so the saying goes. Leaders need exceptional qualities such as vision, knowledge, determination, and innovation and they need to lead by example. Through careful evaluation, innovative thinking and deliberation, a leader sets a course towards the future whether it is a well worn path or uncharted territory.

Continued pressure on underwriting results and a low interest rate environment motivated underwriting management to seek these higher rates, according to the “2013 RIMS Benchmark Survey.”

Partnership designed to add risk intelligence to iPartners’ business intelligence, data warehouse solution.

Companies look to develop industry- and process-specific predictive analytics solutions through partnership.

While the overall number of big data initiatives is still relatively small, the majority are centered on modeling, according to a new Novarica report.

Despite catastrophe losses of $20 billion in the first half of this year, reinsurance market rates on line (ROLs) continue to be driven by an influx of capital from third-party investors at the July 1 renewals, according to a report from Guy Carpenter & Co. LLC, a global risk and reinsurance specialist.

While big data operations based in the cloud are attractive, there is at least one voice out there urging executives to be wary of moving away from on-site data storage.

Ebix Latin America says its agreement enables a large number of Brazilian brokers to concentrate on selling insurance while outsourcing their IT needs to an exchange hub.

Advice on improving communication between business people and data professionals.

Several industry analysts provide advice for establishing effective data practices in a new white paper from Xuber.