Data and information management

New BI survey asks which data endeavors executives plan to push forward in the next year.

Cabinet MOBILE is designed to enable secure access to any document for employees.

Previously holding the same position for Unum Group, Michael Temple will take over as risk officer by the end of the year.

Catastrophe modeling solution designed to help Navigators assess losses on a variety of levels, from portfolios to individual locations.

How business process as a service and smart process applications will become the norm.

A new report from Ovum cuts down claims that cloud technology will be the death of the enterprise data center—especially with legacy systems in play.

Recently upgraded analytics and underwriting software designed to enable proactive pricing and real-time policy evaluations.

Consulting services are designed to allow clients to maximize the value of their catastrophe modeling investment.

In the third quarter of 2012, there were 59 deals that closed, which is just one more than during the previous three months, and a total deal value of $20.5 billion.

Many insurers see the value in leveraging data and predictive analytics to improve a variety of objectives and outcomes; for those still in doubt, read on.

Attunity Ltd., a software solution provider, has released Managed File Transfer (MFT) for Hadoop. The new generation enterprise data transfer solution is designed to accelerate Big Data collection processes and integrate them seamlessly into and out of Hadoop, the open-source programming framework for large-scale data processing.

U.S. adds 6,600 IT jobs; August report revised with better numbers as well.

Research from Aberdeen Group is starting to indicate exceptional growth trends among early big data adopters.

Analysts rank “pricing strategy” and “quality of service” as the industry’s top value drivers over the next three years, named by 95 percent and 94 percent of the respondents, respectively, ahead of “data analysis capabilities” (86 percent).

Insurers headed into the year set to face some of the industry's biggest challenges, most have overcome the obstacles, but not all.

Project managers need to remember that moving to a paperless environment is about changing how people work, how they rely on information and how they access it.

Advice from more than 1,100 executives on what it takes to satisfy business needs while taking advantage of in-house talent, big data resources.

AIR Worldwide, catastrophe modeling firm, estimates that insured losses from Sandy to onshore U.S. properties will be between $7 billion and $15 billion.

It’s no surprise that insurers are using social media to help define, build and integrate their brands against the myriad platforms available to them, and some are clearly farther along the path than others. This was made evident yesterday at LIMRA’s 2012 annual conference in Chicago, where MassMutual shared with attendees nuances of its sophisticated and successful social media plan.

National Hurricane Center’s latest advisory indicates Hurricane Sandy will strike close to midnight; CoreLogic lists the 25 NYC area zip codes at risk of the most property damage.