Spending was subdued, as clients took advantage of intense service provider competition and cheaper cloud computing and as-a-Service offerings to reduce their service delivery costs.

Sixty-eight percent of respondents feel their companies are actively promoting gender diversity.

Kelly Lyles, formerly of AIG, will report to Greg Hendrick, CEO of global insurance.

Insurers at the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s Women in Insurance meeting describe a unique defining moment that lead them to realize and act on their professional passion.

Learning fast from failure is a critical component to being able to compete against new and diverse challenges facing the insurance industry, note advisors.

The PureCloud suite is designed to enable communications, collaboration and customer engagement, and is built on a distributed-cloud architecture.

SAP will work with customers, partners and third-party developers to solve industry challenges in the cloud.

Nancy Pierce is regional P&C VP for GEICO and has served on the board since 2008.

Allstate Insurance and three others land on Working Mother Magazine’s Best Companies for Multicultural Women list.

Now in its ninth year, the award program has detailed the extraordinary efforts of more than 70 professionals whose leadership has set the standard for the application of technology in the insurance business.

The Life & Annuity Group will offer the OpX solution in the United States.

Crecca will integrate strategy, marketing and communications functions.

Alexis Faber will be responsible for strategic direction and executive risks for North America, Willis says.

The insurer will move to a private cloud-based infrastructure on the PureFlex System and IBM will provide other services related to mainframe, storage, backup and resiliency.

Terry Albarella and Maria R. Morris were recognized for their work to advance gender equity.

Leaders from Aflac, Northwestern Mutual and Prudential Group were selected from hundreds of nominations.

The award honors corporations for supplier diversity programs and the integration of women's business enterprises.

Partnership contributes to low operational costs and fast turnaround times, insurer says.

Majority of male and female business executives, including 83 from the insurance industry, agree that the most successful employees will be those who can adapt to the changing workplace.

The awards recognize female leaders who have succeeded in business, academia or a non-profit.