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IIABA study finds that buyers foregoing savings when purchasing insurance.

Holy temblors, Batman, what will the global warming acolytes do with this one?

A study says a failure to implement service catalogs can blunt process improvements.

While legacy architectures may make things easier on IT departments, they don't necessarily ease headaches for users.

The rhetoric is heating up as Accenture issues clarification, justification statements in response to Guidewire’s strong response to technology patent infringement charges.

Iain Hawker will assume overall responsibility for managing business produced by brokers in the London market and EU.

HP's acquisition of 3Com will speed the convergence of networking and storage in insurance company data centers.

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You know that you don't have an enterprise BI strategy if:

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, it's impossible to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. A pair of California-based economists probably recognized this following an attempt to construct an “early warning system” to predict another global financial crisis in the wake of the 2008 catastrophe.

Year-over-year growth for Software-as-a-Service is forecast at five times that of the total application market.

Critical to 75% of personal lines P&C carriers, predictive modeling is also becoming a popular pricing tool with commercial lines insurers.

The European Parliament and Council have reached agreement on new solvency rules for insurance companies.

Blue Cross Blue Shield confirms that its laptop containing personal information on healthcare professionals was stolen in Chicago area in August.

While the government continues to fumble with determining its oversight plan, insurers struggle with their own compliance efforts.

Critics contend the failure of Gramm-Leach-Bliley is that it failed to produce a coherent regulatory mechanism that was up to the new powers it created.

An expanded sales force will be expected to sell the company's MainStay mutual funds to advisers, brokers, plan sponsors and consultants.

A.M. Best, Fitch Ratings and S&P react to Berkshire Hathaway’s acquisition announcement, and announce changes to 14 other insurers’ ratings.

iPipeline, a provider of on-demand software designed to support marketing, selling and processing solutions for insurers, distributors and producers, acquired Utah-based agency management system provider, AgencyWorks.

Access and authority can be tricky and risky, but someone—or some thing—has to be in charge. Is automation an option?