A high percentage of organizations identify enabling technologies as critical for driving business strategy for the remainder of 2018.

New offering leverages distributed-ledger technology to speed up insurance verification.

Nearly a third said it is too expensive to introduce or expand digital marketing efforts, due to their organizations inability to get ROI.

One of the most important aspects of data management is ensuring data quality. Without this, capabilities such as machine learning and advanced analytics might yield faulty results.

The transition to cloud inevitably changes an organization’s daily business.

Insurers in the line of business are innovating in many areas including quoting, servicing, claims, and the overall customer experience.

IBM agreed to acquire software maker Red Hat Inc. in a $33.4 billion bet on jump-starting its efforts to catch up in the cloud.

While several emerging technologies are grabbing plenty of headlines this year, there are many “digital disruptions” that may catch chief information officers off guard.

The companies partnered to highlight digital projects across the industry.

A few recent examples illustrate the new interest in insurance from those both inside and outside of the insurance industry.

Data trash engineers, algorithm bias auditors, virtual identity defenders and cyber calamity forecasters are among the jobs that will play critical roles in the new digital workforce.

While percentage of premium devoted to tech remains flat year-over-year, priorities are shifting, says Novarica.

Allowing carmakers to write their own code could let items such as lidar processing or driving software be added on top.

Applications architect, author and Apache Software Foundation board member Ted Dunning outlines some of the habits and modern approaches highly successful teams use and others can leverage to get their own AI and analytics systems into production.

The technologies replace data and analytics after a drastic jump in a Gartner survey.

The big-data driven home insurance company is looking to be available nationwide by the end of next year.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is reporting unauthorized access to consumer data in systems that support federal insurance exchanges.

Digital innovation will soon outpace the ability of many organizations to keep up, and have dramatic impacts on artificial intelligence and related skills, cultural advancement and processes becoming products, says Gartner.

Data from insurtechs and carriers is helping inform legislation around reducing the amount of time are drivers are on the phone.

Companies transforming the sector provide stable returns and a transformative future based on data.