Data and information management

Insurer introduces new cyberliability insurance product and will partner with NetDiligence, a provider of post-incident services.

The research firm cut back its expected increase in overall enterprise application spending for this year to 4.5 percent, down half a percentage point from its outlook for the year in Q1 2012. That near-term reduction still amounts to $120.4 billion spent in the business software and solutions marketplace, up from 2011’s total of $115.2 billion in 2011, Gartner stated.

Enterprise content management firm to partner with Volly for the integration of its Digital Mail Gateway software.

Rebranded and updated CyberEdge product attempts to stay on top of risk trends, such as cloud computing resources.

Second annual StoneRiver survey indicates a lack of enterprise risk management, readiness for changing regulatory climate.

In the report, entitled “Data Agility: Turning a Liability into an Asset,” Tabb assesses spending and implementation plans at financial firms, and their ramifications with enterprise information sharing and distribution. Tabb found that spending on internal resources will drop to 39 percent of the overall IT budget by 2014, reflecting a 5-percent decline from 2012 and a 27 percent decrease since 2000.

Vendors are beginning to prepare for the growing demand for enterprisewide social CRM.

Research using the websites of State Farm, Allstate, Progressive and GEICO indicates good drivers who live in moderate-income areas are being quoted higher prices for auto insurance, and rates vary widely across providers.

Professionals agree that predictive modeling has changed the way policies are priced, but what other potential does it have and where does this leave actuaries?

In conjunction with the company’s 20th anniversary, Vertafore recently announced three updates to its ImageRight software. The product enhancements include a new user interface and an added emphasis on collaboration and interoperability.

Alliance to enable deductibles and real-time tracking and monitoring for Chubb customers.

The market has been driven to a place where insurance-linked securitizations work from a pricing perspective, say experts at a recent S&P conference.

‘Policy Print as a Service’ designed as a cloud-based option that aims to eliminate paper-based transactions.

A new report from Novarica anticipates a widening analytics gap between large and mid-sized insurers.

A new report outlines the incentives behind four stages of analytics implementation.

Aite Group Senior Analyst Stephen Applebaum outlines the many social media initiatives insurers are embarking upon from this year's IASA conference in San Diego.

New software offered through the cloud to new proprietary lines implementations—available to all Policy Decisions clients later this year.

CloudProtect designed to reimburse losses due to the failures of cloud service providers.

Aragon Research forecasts extinction for most paper documents.

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