Data and information management

Advanced AI systems like those being developed by IBM sound great, but acquiring such systems is another matter.

Survey finds that only 55% of enterprises confident in their ability to retrieve lost data quickly.

Mission-critical platforms changing infrastructure toward extreme information, Gartner says.

Insurers may be interested to learn how banks are using cloud to manage their disaster recovery needs.

As carriers chase down growth, policyholders are left with inflexible service and often brutal customer experience.

The P&C association's new website is intended to help fight insurance fraud in Florida.

The most severe earthquake to hit New Zealand in 80 years seen as the most expensive natural disaster since Hurricane Ike hit the United States in 2008.

Organizations have not yet automated many of the data integration and sales analytics operations needed, Ventana says.

Business analytics portfolio gets in-memory, integration and mobile add-ons.

Organizations that transmit or modify protected health information for covered entities now are covered under the HITECH Act’s strengthened provisions of the HIPAA privacy and security rule.

A.M. Best, Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor's announced ratings updates. The following are some of the most recent:

Companies are concerned about application vulnerabilities, mobile device management.

A.M. Best report reveals hopeful signs in the industry’s capital position and liquidity, but warns of interest rate-related risks.

American subsidiary of Japanese insurance giant selects hosted solutions to enter markets in multiple states.

HP software to help State Auto Group improve policyholder communications.

Lincoln Financial fined $600K for failure to protect customer information from public access.

The speed, scale and accuracy with which you translate analytics into operational improvements can create major cost and competitive differentiators for your organization.

The insurer announced that it's letting Florida policyholders sign up for a program that tracks their driving habits and adjusts their rates accordingly.

Global financial institutions need to get up to speed with appropriate technologies and procedures to protect their organizations from a rising tide of payments fraud, says fraud and detection expert Dena Hamilton.

Policy admin, agent portals and business intelligence (BI) top insurers’ priority lists for 2011, all with a goal of improving business agility, insights and service quality, according Novarica’s 2nd annual “state of the industry” report.