Data and information management

Using CloudConnect, a cloud document-viewing program, insurers could view more than 300 file formats while they’re still downloading.

Prakash Shimpi will oversee the enterprisewide risk monitoring and management program for ING's U.S. insurance operations.

Narragansett Bay Insurance’s CIO offers tips for insurers on how to best leverage the cloud while minimizing risks.

Business intelligence, analytics and performance management prove less cyclical than other software areas, Gartner says.

With the health care debate receding, President Obama has stepped up his efforts to aid passage of comprehensive financial services regulatory reform. While most of the reform measures are aimed squarely at banks, the breadth of the proposed reforms may well encompass many activities currently performed by insurers. Indeed, while insurers may have avoided the purview of a proposed consumer financial products regulator, the issue of whether large insurers will have to help fund a bailout mechanism for systemically risky institutions remains an open question.

Planned acquisition of compliance specialist firm will pay dividends in an industry sharply focused on complying.

Industry weighs in as legislators seek long-term fix to the troubled National Flood Insurance Plan.

While mainframes are still both viable and valuable, perhaps the key to this semantic pretzel is that the needs of the business must come first, and executives shouldn’t rush to adopt new systems simply because they're the latest-and-greatest new tech.

Pharmacists Mutual pointed to the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak as the catalyst for seeking a unified communications system.

WorkCenter Loss Total 4.0 combines Mitchell’s processing solutions with J.D. Power’s data analysis and pricing capabilities.

RiskRover records addresses and GPS coordinates, takes photographs and translates the info into risk models all on a mobile device.

The companies will join expressor’s semantic data integration system to Attunity Integration Suite.

The rising economic tide, a modest inflationary environment, and larger underwriting losses in 2010 will lead to rate-firming for the property/casualty industry, a new study from Hartford, Conn.-based Conning Research & Consulting finds.

A.M. Best upgrades Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance and affirms Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance, while Moody’s affirms Unitrin’s senior debt ratings.

NAIC, ISO and NICN announce streamlined reporting process.

A university study implies that young people are just as concerned as baby boomers about online privacy, but the details tell a different story.

Insurer says HP Exstream offers interactive and real-time capabilities that allow for convenient distribution of documents to policyholders.

Starting slowly and establishing best practices from the outset are two keys to mitigating cloud computing's risks.

New features of the updated insurance-linked security portfolio, Miu, include a stress test to calculate the impact of multiple historical events, and more in-depth information for each bond.

Emdeon's alliance with FICO offers insurers the ability to scan claims for patterns of fraud and abuse prior to adjudication.