Data and information management

Today’s CIO should be less a technologist, and more a business person who creates advantages and differentiators using technology

Report shows 2015 market spending at up to $2.5B, with businesses straddling hybrid clouds.

North American property & casualty insurance carriers currently utilizing predictive modeling continue to see positive ongoing improvements in bottom-line results, according to findings from Chicago-based global professional services company Towers Watson's second annual predictive modeling survey. The conclusions are underscored by the fact that predictive modeling continues to gain momentum among insurers, with most carriers either expanding current implementations or planning new or additional predictive modeling applications, notes the firm.

Google’s Android may have become the world’s leading smartphone platform, but many U.S. insurers are taking a wait-and-see approach to adoption.

The first step for many claims investigators now is to scour social networking sites for information.

Tracking cell phone and other device locations may aid in fighting crime, but it could also violate privacy and hamper efforts to track vehicles for insurance purposes.

While much ballyhooed and potentially important, insurers should first take a breath and think about where they fit into the big picture.

Brokers leery of additional costs as SEC recommends creation of a common fiduciary standard.

There are a number of key steps carriers should take in creating a successful enterprise content management strategy.

Innovation is all around us, in awards programs and in the ways INN presents information.

The advancing technology and underlying economics of cloud computing may herald a paradigm shift for insurance technologists.

Belatedly, commercial P&C insurers and agents are realizing the efficiencies afforded by download technology.

Insurers' diversity, originality and pluck play a role in best practices.

To lessen auto insurance fraud, insurers have options, from data mining to direct repair networks.

New version to deliver application access, desktop virtualization management solutions.

Industry better understands aggregate risk, resulting in increased capacity and competition, notes federal working group.

The financial crisis exposed a weakness in banks' ability to process data; insurers may be interested to learn how their financial services brethren are coping with the problem.

Convergence of compliance and audit functions, GRC moving to the cloud, among top initiatives, says vendor.

After 18 months of study, presidential commission finds that everybody and nobody is responsible for the financial crisis.

Ninety percent of U.S. business and IT leaders fear they’re using bad data, says Experian QAS analysis.