Commercial insurer partners with insurtech SizeUp, helping entrepreneurs maximize profits.

By 2021, more than 55 percent of spending on IoT projects will be for software and services, says Carrie MacGillivray.

Insurers face the risk of investing too heavily in RPA if they treat it as a long-term solution rather than a temporary fix.

There is no question that understanding the technologies themselves are important, but it is about what the technologies mean for customers, risks, and operations.

In two outlook papers, Deloitte advises carriers how best to navigate an industry undergoing rapid digitally driven change.

The major attacks included WannaCry, ExPetr, and BadRabbit, which all used exploits designed to compromise corporate networks.

And insurers are ready to feed that beast, as initiatives at MetLife and others show.

The consortium already has 20 members exploring distributed-ledger technology, says executive director Chris McDaniel.

Many organizations are harnessing only a fraction of the potential value of analytics and thus missing out on the chance to turn insights into a competitive advantage.

Coverage gaps will become common as less people are reached to buy insurance through traditional channels.

Sid Gandhi will lead the insurer's digital, IT and business technology teams to boost customer experience.

Major business intelligence providers are building tools designed to introduce more employees to data analytics, with a focus on three key areas: accessibility, collaboration and consumability.

The insurtech offers crowd-sourced insurance ratings for consumers looking to purchase homeowners, renters or car insurance policies.

The insurtech intends to offer more thorough, cheaper automobile coverage through its smartphone app.

But chief data officers find that with more respect comes greater responsibility.

Most existing insurers will not survive in their current form, say 44% of respondents to a PwC survey.

Tom Bolt is charged with helping the company improve pricing decisions using data and analytics.

Even though a majority of organizations have adopted or plan to adopt IoT technologies within the next year, many are still concerned about cybersecurity threats, says Peter Tsai.

The companies' complementary analytics backbones can provide a fuller view of customers.

When moving away from familiar systems and deploying something new, a failure to plan properly could be disastrous.