Data and information management

Making agents’ lives easier with these technology advances should be on every insurer's to-do list this year, according to IIABA’s Agents Council for Technology and ACORD’s User Group Information Exchange.

Software-defined data centers won't arrive all at once, but are on their way to gradually becoming a reality.

Mobile capabilities are expected to prompt a resurgence of business intelligence dollars in 2013.

Insured losses from natural catastrophes were greater than $110 billion in 2011, the second-highest figure ever recorded, according to Swiss Re in “Taking a Comprehensive View of Catastrophe Risk Worldwide,” a report from AIR Worldwide. And there is a 6.7 percent probability the insurance industry will experience a loss of this size in any given year. In 2012, insured losses totaled $65 billion, $25 billion of which are attributed to Superstorm Sandy, as estimated by Munich Re.

Standards organization consolidates with DISA, an organization that focuses on cross-industry electronic standards.

20-year veteran of AIG climbs to executive ranks after four years at Zurich.

The coming year will see new modes of computing drill deeper than ever into the insurance enterprise.

How a branch of Blue Cross turned its entire organization on to data analytics.

Blue Health Intelligence, the database/analytics services division of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, has acquired analytics vendor Intelimedix for an undisclosed sum.

Fitch says total estimated losses could continue to rise, as several insurers have yet to release loss estimates.

End-to-end policy administration system will be implemented by Auto-Owners’ life insurance subsidiary.

A.M. Best maintains its stable outlooks on the P&C, life and reinsurance sectors despite significant and persistent challenges, including loss reserves, low interest rates, weather-related volatility and increasing competition.

Severe weather-related catastrophes in United States accounted for a larger-than-normal portion of global catastrophe losses in 2012, increasing to 67 percent from an average of 32 percent, and 90 percent of global insured losses, compared to an average of 57 percent, according to Munich Re.

Patented technologies to provide data protection, intuitive data presentation capabilities.

2013 will be the year we start to see less of the big server and storage rooms.

IT and business executives need to apply a risk-management approach that balances economic value against risks.

Cloud, customer experience and analytics will dominate IT budgets in 2013, analysts predict.

This compilation of the top slideshows of 2012 is based on pageviews and represents the biggest topics and trends from the past 12 months.

Ahead of the upcoming holiday, the National Insurance Crime Bureau analyzed vehicle theft data to determine the 11 most popular holidays for vehicle thefts.

As insurers evaluate their 2013 risk management programs, they are faced with a growing concern over the long-term effects of cybersecurity attacks.