Insurers Drill Deeper With Data Standards

While long ubiquitous in business-to-business transactions, internal use of standards is becoming more prevalent in the era of service-oriented architectures.

How to Navigate the New World of Outsourcing

Economic concerns and volatility in the marketplace have changed the outsourcing landscape, and insurers must adapt.

Empowering Your Agent

Property/casualty firms are offering agent portals with rich functionality to reduce costs and appeal to agents' pressing needs.

Cultivating Communication One Consumer at a Time

Insurers' use of Web 2.0 strategies and other rich Internet applications have allowed them to harvest a new audience.

Online Aggregators Can Drive Revenue

Insurers may not want to dismiss aggregators as "just another agency" — most are poised to deliver on a unique value proposition.

Insurers Attacking Problems in Parallel

As computational needs of actuaries swell, distributed computing is gaining sway.

Insurers Testing the Waters for Solid State Drives

While the advantages of solid state hard drives are legion, it may be a while before they make a big impact in insurance data centers.

An Onus of Innovation

A new survey finds widespread enthusiasm for the benefits realized from innovation, tempered with the reality of tight information technology budgets.

Welcome to Big Brother Insurance Inc.

Legislative moves to squash systemic risk may portend a heavier hand in insurance regulation.

Models Are Not Reality

Predictive modeling may be a useful tool, but it shouldn't be used as a shortcut for the claims process.

7 Steps to Policy Admin Implementation Success

Iterative methodologies and sound product architectures reduce risk, and yield faster return on investment.

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