VIEWPOINTS/Partner Points
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Big Data and Insurtech: A Carrier Perspective
James Merz | May 19, 2020
Insurance has always relied on large volumes of data to gauge customer behavior and more. But as big data has gotten bigger, insurtech has empowered...
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Distracted Living: What It Means for Insurance
Mark Breading | January 30, 2018
One important trend in society over the past decade is our increasing ability to create and consume a seemingly unlimited amount of digital content...
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In the Core Systems Hourglass, Sand is Falling Faster
Karen Furtado | June 26, 2017
The core systems replacement cycle is speeding up. Twenty years ago, even if you spent your entire career working at the same insurance company, you...
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Targeted Ransomware Hits Insurance Data
Bryant G. Tow | May 15, 2017
Managed service providers are new targets and the cost of rescuing the data is exorbitant...
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Insurtech and MatureTech: Blending the New with the Old
Mark Breading | October 19, 2016
The insurtech phenomenon reached new heights at the InsureTech Connect 2016 event in Las Vegas earlier this month...
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Building Bridges: The Future of Insurance
Staff Writer | August 30, 2016
Strategy Meets Action will hold its annual Summit in Boston on Sept. 19. The focus of the event is on becoming a Next-Gen Insurer—bridging from today...
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Beyond Transformation: The Convergence of Finance, Risk, and Actuarial Functions
Doug French, Steven Abel and Carol-Ann Back | June 28, 2016
C-suite executives and senior leaders in finance, risk, and actuarial are under intense pressure to navigate a wide range of megatrends and market...
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New Players Find Insurance Isn’t for Them
Karen Furtado | February 16, 2016
Cargill, Monsanto, Wells Fargo, and John Deere are officially out of the crop insurance business, according to a recent article from Bloomberg...
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Looking Back on a Pivotal Year for Insurance
Deb Smallwood | January 04, 2016
What we have all experienced the last 12 months in terms of decisions, investments, and developments are vastly different than we have ever seen...
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Cybersecurity: Balancing Risk and Cost
Chuck McGann | October 27, 2015
There are ways to secure your data that don’t cost more than what you are trying to protect...
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Insurance Innovation with a Realistic Eye
Deb Smallwood | September 28, 2015
The 2015 SMA Summit: Next-Gen Insurer focused on insurance innovation and transformation with a realistic eye. It was an action-packed day...
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Will Emerging Technologies, Innovation Transform the Insurance Customer Experience?
Mark Breading | September 08, 2015
The world is abuzz with the potential of a new wave of emerging technologies aimed at transforming business, society, and our daily lives...
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Drone Technology Soaring in Interest for Insurers
Karen Furtado | July 20, 2015
In early 2014 the first commercially available drone debuted in the consumer market. From the beginning, demand was phenomenal as both professionals...
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Execution Wins in Core Systems Implementations
George Grieve | June 01, 2015
The best software package in the world is useless if it cannot be implemented correctly...
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Turn to Government for Claims Innovation—Seriously
Karen Furtado | May 04, 2015
The federal government is likely not the first place you would look for innovative inspiration...
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Agile Development Creates Collaborative Culture
Janeen Blanton and Sujey Edward | March 31, 2015
Bringing agile development across the enterprise requires a new roadmap...
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Common Lessons for Insurers in Modernizing Policy Systems
Karen Furtado | February 10, 2015
Modern core systems are essential to an insurer’s ability to compete effectively in today’s increasingly complex and dynamic market...
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For the Insurance CIO, the Future is Now
George Grieve | February 03, 2015
The CIO’s job is to stay in control of the complexity, maximize the benefits that it brings, and minimize its risks...
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Consumer Electronics Show Highlights Business Needs
Denise Garth | January 26, 2015
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been the preeminent show for seeing, hearing, and feeling what is emerging and hot in consumer electronics at...
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The Future is Now for Group Insurance Carriers
Rob McIsaac | December 12, 2014
As economists see it, the Great Recession has been over for more than five years. That said, the journey back from the high unemployment and negative...
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The Difficult Task of Achieving IT Innovation
George Grieve | December 05, 2014
There can be no true innovation in insurance technology until carriers solve the basic problem of core system replacement...
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Financial Crisis Still Takes a Toll on Insurers
Jamie Macgregor | November 11, 2014
In a post-global financial crisis world, continued low interest rates and lackluster investment performance continue to take their toll on the...
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Right Before Our Eyes, Technology Vendors Are All Grown Up
George Grieve | October 28, 2014
When it comes to the insurance IT vendor market the closer you look the more differentiated and specialized the vendors become. Some vendors are...
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Looking Beyond the Insurance Horizon
Denise Garth | October 21, 2014
Amazing. Extraordinary. Powerful. Disruptive. Transformative. Destructive. Constructive. Innovative. These are the words that describe what I heard...
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Insurers Demand Analytics on the Go
Cynthia Walker | September 29, 2014
Secure, mobile insurance industry data offers high value insights on any device, anytime, anywhere...
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Insurers Can Define Their Future Through Technology
Robert Regis Hyle | August 26, 2014
As research and consulting firm Strategy Meets Action prepares for its annual SMA Summit on Sept. 15 in Boston, SMA founder Deb Smallwood fielded...
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Reflections of a Retired Insurance CIO
Wayne Umland | May 20, 2014
Glatfelter Insurance Group is one of the top 20 privately held brokerages in the country. I had the pleasure of serving as the company’s first Chief...
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Reverse the Perspective and Become Demand-Led
Matt Josefowicz | May 13, 2014
The insurance industry has a tendency to view the world from the inside out, but the industry needs to reverse that perspective and look at itself...
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Which Way Do You Lean on AXA/Facebook Deal?
Denise Garth | May 02, 2014
The reactions and responses to the SMA blog The Shot Heard Around the Industry: AXA and Facebook have been very interesting and enlightening. It has...
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How Wearable Technology Can Impact Insurance
Tom Benton | April 14, 2014
As long as I can remember, I’ve been a gadget guy. Those of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s were among the first generation to have a television in...
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Four Ways to Modernize Core Legacy Systems
Donald Light | April 02, 2014
The benefits of modernizing core legacy systems are clear and compelling...
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You Are a Target for a Cyber Attack
Bryant G. Tow | March 19, 2014
In the insurance space, I hear a few common statements about cyber security: “I am just an independent agent” or “We are only a small regional company...
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Gaining a “Wow” Experience from Web Users
Wendy Aarons-Corman | March 07, 2014
For years the insurance industry has focused on providing Internet access to products and information to their agents. Insurers have responded to a...
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Time to Shift from Business/IT Alignment to Business/IT Alliance
Deb Smallwood | March 06, 2014
There is no question that alignment between the views and actions of business and IT professionals is critical for synchronizing strategies...
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Organization is the Key for Selecting Software Vendors
Larry Fortin | February 12, 2014
An inside look at how one insurance IT manager goes about the difficult task of keeping existing systems humming while searching for new software...
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Analysts Expound on the Needs of the Mid-tier Insurance Market
Robert Regis Hyle | February 12, 2014
In each issue of ITA Pro, we will be asking a group of insurance technology analysts their view on important industry issues. This month, we have four...
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Finding the Cure for Obamacare’s Website
George Grieve | February 12, 2014
The rush to implement the national healthcare website proved once again the danger of rushing a project before it has been tested thoroughly...
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Life Insurers Fail to Follow Through on Customer Service
Rob McIsaac | February 10, 2014
We live in a time of remarkable convenience and incredible advances in the technologies which permeate our daily lives. The once unimaginable stuff of...
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INSURANCE IT NEWS
- Electronic Chat with Eugenio Gonzalez, Plug and Play
- Nexilis’ Distribution Platform Selected by W.H. Greene and Associates to Drive Underwriting Transformation
- Breeze Adds Critical Illness Insurance to Digital Platform, Growing Partnership with Assurity Life
- Buckle Appoints Sharon Fernandez to Head of Insurance
- InsurTech NY Announces Global Early-Stage Insurtech Competition
- Altshuler Shaham Selects Sapiens for the Operation and Automation of its Provident and Pension Funds
- NetVU Announces Plans for 2021 Accelerate Conference
- Openly Secures $40M in Series B Funding Round to Accelerate Rapid Growth
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Electronic Chat with Ellen Moser, Senior Client Executive, Origami Risk LLC
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Last month Origami rolled out new online tools enabling employers to track employee COVID-19 vaccinations and monitor outbreaks... READ MORE
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Down Market Opportunities Beckon Benefits Insurers
You have surely heard it said that small businesses are the growth engine for America. Today, the phrase has a special ring to it for benefits... READ MORE
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Technology at the Heart of Change in Insurance
With stagnant growth and lingering low interest rates, the life insurance industry faces a challenging future... READ MORE
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Got Policies? IVANS Service Helps Feed Commercial Lines Producers
Finding insurance carriers willing to write commercial lines risks has always been a challenge for producers... READ MORE
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Technology Changes Coming Faster than Ever for Insurers
As Guidewire Software prepares for the start of Connections, its 11th annual user conference that begins on Nov. 2, Brian Desmond, chief marketing... READ MORE
Vendor Views
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Sink or Swim: A Mid-Term View of Virus Impact
COVID-19 has said to insurers, “It’s time to move... READ MORE
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Partner News
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Big Data and Insurtech: A Carrier Perspective
Insurance has always relied on large volumes of data to gauge customer behavior and more. But as big data has gotten bigger, insurtech has empowered... READ MORE
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