Novarica Research Council Impact Award Nominee of the Day: Zurich North America worked with program administrators to eliminate rekeying of data and other labor-intensive steps in the process.

Large IT efforts often cost much more than planned; some can put the whole organization in jeopardy. The companies that defy these odds are the ones that master key dimensions that align IT and business value.

Big data leads the way as IT spending is expected to reach $3.7 trillion in 2013.

In an effort to improve system stability and availability, Allstate Financial ran a root-cause analysis of production issues, which determined that many were due to application integration issues across the enterprise. In response, Allstate established E-Test, an enterprisewide test environment comprised of key administration systems, data stores and applications.

Insurer seeks improvements in operational intelligence as well as regulatory reporting with latest purchase.

Provider's BI and policy admin products designed to increase insurer's operating efficiency and leverage information assets.

A new survey of mostly insurance and IT executives also finds them looking for business cases to justify big data expenditures.

Loading big data to data warehouses to support of big data analytics often is complicated, expensive and time-consuming, which can limit a company’s productivity and competitive edge. To facilitate those processes, Attunity Ltd. and Teradata have partnered to offer Attunity Replicate for Teradata, a big data replication solution designed to increase performance, efficiency and ease-of-use when loading heterogeneous data to Teradata.

Novarica Research Council Impact Award Nominee of the Day: Quote-to-bound business triples as the workers’ compensation insurer takes pre-deployment problems into their own hands.

New solution, Connect5, is designed to provide P&C carriers with tools to transform, map and route data.

Particularly for P&C insurers, the drive for growth and competitive advantage through data continues to dictate IT budget increases.

Insurers adapt to low interest rate environment by adjusting product offerings to manage impact on profitability.

Industry’s net income nearly triples and combined ratio improves almost 10 points compared to 2011 figures.

Through a five-year project, the insurer improved efficiency by 25 percent and achieved a straight-through processing percentage of 75 percent for BOP accounts.

While the majority of insurers plan to be ready by the proposed 2015 deadline, many still have to address their IT practices.

Is the current tone of debates surrounding public-versus-private cloud options hurting potentially innovative efforts?

Novarica Research Council Impact Award Nominee of the Day: Oregon Mutual Insurance’s tablet-based interactive reports leverage the value of marketing information and quantify field information for increased productivity and retention.

Insurer hopes that purchase will enhance its customer service, claim outcomes and overall efficiency.

Profiling rating solution providers, Novarica dissects the overall market as well as the individual components of solutions that make for effective purchases.

Panel representing hundreds of vendors and businesses engaged in cloud deployments globally discuss standards.