Data and information management

Towers Watson’s “2012 Risk and Finance Manager Survey” found that 95 percent of insurance buyers had some concern over the hardening of the P&C market, which is a result catastrophic losses in 2011 and an upgrade in the catastrophe risk model to RMS 11.

These tools and methodologies, such as Hadoop and MapReduce, can help insurers unlock the real potential of Big Data.

Upgrades and additional functionality implemented to help business customers more efficiently analyze loss trends.

The “Aon Risk Maturity Index” identifies trends in the overall risk maturity of organizations based in different parts of the world.

The stress of filing income taxes may make U.S. motorists more prone to fatal motor vehicle accidents today say Canadian researchers.

Analytics M&A streak continues as IBM picks up analytics provider with more than 180 clients, including Farmers Insurance.

FICO releases software aimed at improving recent survey results indicating 64 percent of insurers lack the ability to rapidly deploy or update models.

The carrier's first foray into the cloud came with security concerns that lead to more in-house control over compliance solutions.

Insurance group aims to mitigate regulatory risks across specialty P&C, annuity and supplemental health insurance businesses.

As insurers attempt to recoup losses from a costly 2011, global property insurance rates rise in the first quarter of 2012, Marsh reports.

Specialty risk management provider adding 50 jobs to what is already its largest location.

'Bring your own device' means more productivity and better service to customers, but are they secure enough?

To remain relevant in an era of flat budgets and growing business demands, Ken McGee's second-day keynote at Gartners’s Business Intelligence Summit in Los Angeles called for a “CIO manifesto” in order for chief information officers to match the quality of business-initiated projects to the work of IT.

The fifth annual index found that 24 percent of respondents tried to resolve their property/casualty insurance issues online before calling their insurers directly compared to 21 percent for health insurance.

Can insurers try to leverage social data to open up a new market? If so, would that affect the value of that data for claims/underwriting purposes?

Data security threats evolve even as organizations successfully lock down their systems.

The results of a Mozy survey indicate that 85 percent of SMBs do not use remote, automatic online backup. Of those that do perform backups, the most prevalent methods are those that can most easily be lost, stolen, deleted or destroyed

Companies to bring data, audit services to help life insurers minimize risk.

As technological, environmental and economic risks assail insurers from all sides, a renewed focus on the process of risk management is required.

Looking beyond ROI and hard benefits, insurers are turning to Web 2.0 concepts to invigorate internal operations.