Survey results reveal 85 percent of insurers are outsourcing at least some work through variable staffing/staff augmentation, legacy app maintenance or data center/infrastructure management.

Print/mail outsourcing can relieve burdens, but insurers need to maintain effective customer communications.

Policy Studies Inc. (PSI) has a new business process outsourcing (BPO) service to help address the requirements—and deadlines—for implementing health insurance exchanges and marketplaces, the company reports.

For Tony Kerrison, the day has long passed when it made sense to question whether cloud computing had a place in financial services companies' IT plans. Kerrison has been one of the industry's cloud computing pioneers: In 2008 he helped create an internal cloud for data center servers at Merrill Lynch (back then it was referred to as "stateless infrastructure"). This year he took the helm of the Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council, a group of corporate technology buyers developing cloud standards for vendors.

McCamish Systems LLC and Pegasystems Inc. have announced a strategic alliance aimed at enhancing McCamish’s life insurance and annuity platform, VPAS Life.

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Society Insurance, a provider of workers’ compensation insurance, has selected CSC’s comprehensive legal management software, Legal Solutions Suite, as a Software as a Service (SaaS). Society will access the CSC-hosted offering online to improve consistency in legal matter planning and bill review.

Properly going through the steps leading up to an IT project, means that by the time actual work begins, the battle should be more than half over.

Yodil Inc., a provider of business intelligence, data analytics and management reporting to the insurance industry, has developed OneSource for Affirmative Insurance Holdings Inc., a writer of non-standard auto coverage. According to Yodil, OneSource is now in live production and interfaces with Affirmative's multiple systems to rate, quote and sell auto, home and ancillary products.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded CGI Federal Inc. (CGI), a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Group Inc., a $8.9 million, two-year contract to develop and implement the CMS Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight's Rate and Benefits Information System (RBIS). CGI Group is an information technology and business process services firm.

Outsourcing is still a multi-billion dollar industry, but the future is getting cloudy as the market braces for a transitional phase.

Appointments aimed at helping company provide support to insurers creating usage-based insurance products.

Vendor incorporates Duck Creek's policy software in an attempt to offer more robust P&C product.

Suite to replace multi-system legacy environment with single system for processing of all products.

How one financial services outsourcer reduced the pains of taking on new customers.

What procurement and vendor management functions should be doing for you, and a can't-miss guide on how to use them more effectively.

Broker technology firm nabs needs-assessment and financial planning software provider.

Electronic marketing solution professes the ability to match critical intelligence with potential business opportunities.

MajescoMastek hired to simplify the carrier's current system of processing policies.

The specialty provider of fraud solutions to the health care industry hopes the partnership can provide them with further insights into how fraudsters operate regionally.