Data and information management

Lord Levene honored for his global risk management and for fearless sharing of realistic industry insights.

Web presentment system now includes new delivery and security capabilities.

Everyday users worry about their privacy, so how much more should business users be concerned?

A new report says risk managers must balance internal and external volatility in the year ahead.

A.M. Best downgrades Canal Group, affirms Manulife.

The acquisition of a Data Factory Tool Kit and methodology from Kognitio is designed to bolster Mastek’s end-to-end data migration capabilities.

The industry considers salivating over the huge China market, but it does so at the expense of our security.

At the December 2009 MDM Summit in New York, Elaine Bradshaw, a SVP, Data Management, at Marsh USA, talked about how her company overcame the challenges of implementing a global master data management strategy.

BlueCross and BlueShield of Tennessee has announced the theft of identifiable data that affects an estimated 500,000 members.

A study released this week by security firm Symantec found that mid-sized enterprises are more likely to adopt cutting-edge technologies.

Internet marketing will be regulated by 2015, controlling more than $250 billion in Internet marketing spending worldwide. Outlandish? Maybe not.

Looking to recoup taxpayer money used to bailout financial institutions, the Obama administration is proposing a “responsibility fee” on large financial institutions, possibly including insurers. Levied on the debts of financial firms with over $50 billion in consolidated assets, the fee is intended to deter financial companies from overleveraging themselves.

Health insurer Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. will develop a pilot of the Food and Drug Administration's Sentinel System to better monitor the safety of regulated medical products. The one-year contract with four renewable years is worth a total of $72 million.

Health insurer Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. will develop a pilot of the Food and Drug Administration's Sentinel System to better monitor the safety of regulated medical products. The one-year contract with four renewable years is worth a total of $72 million.

In a new user survey, a majority of respondents expect business intelligence (BI) to continuously grow worldwide, though most remain unsure about the value of analyzing data from social media sites. The global survey was conducted by Baseline Consulting and Kognitio, a provider of BI and data warehousing solutions.

Microsoft and HP today announced a $250 million technology development partnership and a series of software/hardware/service rollouts that HP CEO Mark Hurd called "the deepest level of collaboration and integration" in his company's history.

Though relatively unfazed by the financial crisis, a continuing soft market will present problems for property/casualty insurers, a new report finds.

After declining 8.2% in 2009, Forrester predicts IT spending in the U.S. will grow a healthy 6.6% in 2010 to $568 billion. Global IT spending, which fell 8.9% in 2009, is expected to rise even further, by 8.1% in 2010 to more than $1.6 billion.

Business analytics software as a service is expected to grow three times as fast as the total business analytics software market in the 5-year period between 2008 and 2013, according a new study from market researcher IDC.

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