Policy adminstration

The application is designed to help insurers drive business growth and transformation.

The increase in time being spent interacting online via social media channels represents one of the greatest new business opportunities of all time. But for the insurance industry, it may represent one its greatest challenges.

By 2015, most mobile applications will synchronize, collect and analyze deep data about users and their social graphs, according to Gartner Inc.

The applications will be deployed using the company’s SaaS platform.

These key recommendations may ease implementing and managing a transition to electronic communications.

Insurers reveal what technology initiatives are on their horizons and what technological challenges keep them up at night.

Assigning yourself the “chief encouragement officer” title and breaking out of ineffective interpersonal communication patterns may be just the first step required to lead today’s diverse insurance IT workforce.

Despite the challenges, Sebelius said she would rather have a rocky rollout and 8 million signed up than a fully functional website and 4 million enrolled.

The project included the migration of thousands of policies, representing more than five years of transactional data, to MS SQL.

Insurance business and technology experts agree that a successful C-level vision is not just about keeping up with technology; it’s about more focus on the customer and less on caution-drenched decision making.

Advice on some of insurance IT executives' biggest challenges, including data security, cloud computing, and recruiting and retaining talent was offered during a town hall meeting at last week’s IASA conference.

To increase market share and increase relevancy, Accenture says insurers must plan for the blurring between the digital and physical world, the rise of crowdsourcing, the advent of the data supply chain and three other trends.

While insurers have spent years and millions of dollars acquiring or replacing information systems, there is a lack alignment between companies’ business and IT organizations, according to a panel at America’s Health Insurance Plans Institute.

Peter Hancock oversees property/casualty insurance and will be CEO and president as of September 1.

West Bend selects Accenture’s Duck Creek Policy and Duck Creek Billing software to streamline operations and increase flexibility.

On day three at IASA’s 2014 Educational Conference and Business Show, we take a look at why all insurers should care about ORSA, and SMA's Karen Furtado evaluates the billing system market.

Several presenters at the Chicago Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s Women in Insurance event on June 3, 2014 offered leadership advice to attendees. Here are just a few of their comments:

Canadian insurer to implement policy admin, billing, claims and customer management.

The application will address PAS, new business, distribution management and group processing.

On day two at IASA’s 2014 Educational Conference and Business Show, insurers discuss what they're doing to inspire new talent, and Novarica's Robert McIsaac identifies the biggest disconnect between IT and the business.