Data and information management

The technology challenges business models by potentially eroding premiums and profits, but also offers an opportunity for differentiation in a market historically driven by price.

Job numbers in all IT sectors grow as CIOs look to turn temporary positions into openings for full-time IT professionals.

Underwriting service to link predictive analytics engine to the carrier's day-to-day decision-makers' workflow.

The property/casualty industry is facing a number of potentially transformational forces, including increasing competition, consumerization, the number of communications options for both agents and customers, social networking, and an evolving regulatory environment, according to Gartner’s “Hype Cycle for P&C Insurance, 2012.”

Uncertainties abound when cloud comes into the picture; while some questions may be situational, here are 10 that help assess where and how cloud will be useful.

In a down economy, insurance fraud is on the increase, but companies such as Allstate, Erie Insurance and CNA tune their technology to fight fraud and organized crime.

The new form of computing requires the same management and due diligence as any IT engagement, but insurers are finding areas in which to apply it.

The agency management system, AMS360, is expected to begin delivering by the end of this year.

Analytics increasingly provide competitive differentiation for insurers and are at the heart of the industry’s transformation to a more customer-centric business model, according to “Data and Analytics in Insurance: The Dawn of a New Era,” from Strategy Meets Action.

Insurers' measured moves to the cloud are building confidence in the platform as concerns move from security to risk management.

In a recent survey of data center facility managers, IT leaders and C-suite executives, consolidating servers and updating mechanical infrastructures appeared on the vast majority of to-do lists.

A recent survey found cyber attack to be among the world's top five threats, which means insurers have a big responsibility to help others, as well as themselves.

App designed to provide insurers with business performance analytics.

Study indicates outperforming organizations are twice as effective at accessing and drawing insights from data.

This easy-to-interpret way of organizing data visually has taken off in other industries—insurance is starting to catch on.

Wireless carrier boosts network, hardware, and offers driver analytics and scoring to carriers interested in evaluating its Integrated Insurance Solutions product.

Insurer to implement Innovation Group's entire suite, including policy, claims and analytics elements.

With an eye on improved reliability, insurer turns to mobile security company Keynote DeviceAnywhere.

Latest version aims to enable quicker document creation and time-to-market for new products.

A new report reminds us not only that data is the lifeblood of an enterprise, but also that companies are often incredibly inefficient at managing that data.