Analyst

Craig Beattie is an analyst in Celent's insurance practice, and can be reached at cbeattie@celent.com.

New Gadgets and What They Could Mean for Insurers
April 11, 2013 Gadget Show Live shows off the technologies that will be defining major advancements in the year to come.

A New Data Mantra: Capture Everything
April 1, 2013 Most current data strategies weed out all data that doesn't point to a single end, but that may be selling the potential of...

Personal and Mobile Device Forecast for 2013
November 20, 2012 While 2012 offered a deluge of new devices and capabilities, the market, particularly for insurers and business users, is...

Apple still does laptops, Microsoft does tablets and Google does iOS Apps
July 16, 2012 Tech giants taking turns this Summer outlining the next several years of advancements.

The Big Unanswered Social Media Question – Where’s the Money?
January 24, 2012 The aspirations of social media networks to glean larger profits from global user bases could intersect with insurers quest...

Hey Facebook and Google: Why I’m Liking it and Looking Forward to +1ing it
July 6, 2011 Social networks and their features are changing the way we interact with the world, each other and with insurers. The...

The Hippogryph—A Blend of Old Beasts to Help Insurers Fly
April 6, 2011 Insurers are finding that they must create a new role in their organization—one that merges IT discipline and business...

What Does the Post-PC Era Mean for the Insurance Industry?
March 23, 2011 Given Apple's proclamation that its iPad 2 has sparked the "post-PC era," CIOs are worried that this new era will spur an arms...

How Digital & Social Innovation Challenge the Insurer Business Model
February 2, 2011 Understanding how to leverage social media, winning customer loyalty through service and finding new innovations can make a...

An "Official" Guide to Writing Apps for the Mobile Web?
December 28, 2010 With much at stake, insurers may benefit from mobile web best practices being issued by an international standards body.