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.

Jonathan Kalman, president of Return on Intelligence, offered the following predictions, takeaways and advice at the IASA 2014 Educational Conference and Business Show in Indianapolis last week.

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.

Research suggests many executives lack confidence in the outcome of their data analyses.

According to the NICB, California leads the nation in SUV and CUV thefts; Ford Escape is the most stolen.

While it sounds like a marketing buzzword, data lakes offer an alternative to enterprise data warehouses.

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.

Insurers are trying to reverse negative public perceptions that they are only looking out for their own financial bottom lines, says trade association.

The application is designed to simplify and automate photo documentation capture and filing.

For insurers, agent demand and claims efficiencies are contributing to a new sense of urgency to embrace mobile apps.

Accenture says enrollments now are three times greater than estimated last year at this time.

The business intelligence tools will offer key information to manipulate data and measure performance in an understandable format.

Insured Rating enabled insurer to release its AirCare product.

Broker places bloodstock risk electronically with insurer.

Indiana University, George Mason University, University of Virginia and five other institutions have launched or will be starting up data science programs in 2014, according to MastersInDataScience.org.

Opening up the data pipeline means new opportunities for insurers.

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