Data and information management

MetLife Inc. has added the Multi-Index Targeted Risk Portfolio to the MetLife Protected Growth Strategies lineup, available through its variable annuities with the GMIB Max and EDB Max optional benefit riders.

Solution designed for risk retention groups, captives and health care providers.

A recent study from Travelers downplays the risk of digital platforms and transactions.

Predictions from Gartner outline a sprawling enterprise technology infrastructure that includes more SaaS, BYOD and outsourcing.

Estimate only includes aid provided so far and could rise in the coming weeks.

Only a few days left to vote in the seventh annual Vanguards in Insurance Practices awards program, which uncovers the best of the best in insurance innovation among both technology users and providers.

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).