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Insurance & Technology
August 10, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Real-Time Rendezvous Noting the advancements other carriers had made in application processing, Service Lloyds decided to modernize its 20-year-old homegrown legacy system to handle ACORD XML and generate quotes online in real time.   |
Insurance & Technology
May 25, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
HP Introduces Claims Correspondence Solution The HP Exstream solution, which supports critical front-office claims business processes, is designed to improve customer retention while reducing costs and compliance risks. |
Insurance & Technology
October 29, 2003
Greg MacSweeney |
What's your Legacy plan? One thing's for sure: A monolithic approach won't work. Depending on the particular application and platform, insurers' legacy replacement/enhancement strategies vary widely according to the project specifics. |
Insurance & Technology
October 7, 2005
Charles Babcock |
IBM/ACORD Deal Eyes SOA Insurance industry standards body ACORD will expand its standards framework to include business processes, owing to a contribution by IBM of elements of the vendor's Insurance Application Architecture that define common industry business process services. |
Insurance & Technology
January 5, 2007
Paul McDonnell |
It's a 'Buy' World This is an exciting time in the insurance industry, with several factors leading carriers to make key technology decisions in 2007. Carriers choosing to implement new solutions should recognize the critical need for flexible integration architecture. |
Insurance & Technology
March 25, 2008
Nathan Conz |
Chubb Standardizes and Automates Producer Appointment Process The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has implemented ACORD's standard producer appointment form and data standards. |
Insurance & Technology
July 19, 2004 |
Alliances & Partnerships Castek goes global... Docucorp, epic team... Dralasoft/xythos deal... etc. |
Insurance & Technology
May 18, 2004
Julie Gallagher |
IT Isn't Tapped for Compliance The insurance industry fails to embrace the full business value of IT when it comes to addressing regulatory requirements and instead relies primarily on manual processes and ad hoc measures |
Insurance & Technology
May 16, 2007
Susana Schwartz |
Drive For Automation Causes Insurance Carriers To Integrate The Internet has yielded more choices among comparative raters and aggregators, thus elevating agents to a more powerful position as the gatekeepers to multiple company ratings. |
Insurance & Technology
August 7, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Policy Admin System Replacement: Insurers Shift Focus From Systems to Functionalities Interboro Insurance Co.'s policy administration replacement initiative was in key respects a classic case. |
Insurance & Technology
April 2, 2004
Peggy Bresnick-Kendler |
Virtual Roundtable Strategic claims management is essential for insurers to keep customers happy and ease the burden of servicing claims. Technology plays a key role in meeting the challenge. |
InternetNews
June 7, 2004
Clint Boulton |
Adobe Launches PDF Platform For Web Services Adobe moves its portable document format closer to a Web service. |
Insurance & Technology
August 1, 2007
Anthony O'Donnell |
Actuaries Adopt New Risk-Modeling Technologies Actuaries' collaboration with IT leads to more sophisticated tech. |
Insurance & Technology
April 1, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
The Architecture of Adaptation: Enabling Flexibility With Business Architecture and BPM Business process management (BPM) enables insurers a rapid response to a changing marketplace by pulling processes and functionality out of legacy code and legacy thinking. |
Insurance & Technology
February 1, 2006
Phil Britt |
A Web of Support There has been an upturn in insurers' investments in Web-based tools that enable agents to work more efficiently and, through those efficiencies, sell more, increase commissions and make more money for the companies they represent. |
Insurance & Technology
May 3, 2006
Deena M. Amato-McCoy |
Service-Oriented Change Heterogeneous systems are at the core of many insurance carriers' IT infrastructures. Yet, companies still struggle with how to seamlessly integrate these often disparate systems across their enterprise. Now, a rapidly evolving architectural strategy is quickly changing the landscape. |
Insurance & Technology
February 21, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
SOA: Plug and Play The obstacles and benefits for insurance companies interested in service-oriented architecture. |
Insurance & Technology
July 12, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
In With The New New offerings based on advanced technologies, as well as intensifying competitive pressures, make a strong argument for P&C legacy systems replacement. And while the case for life/health legacy replacement is not as strong, it is growing more persuasive with time. |
Insurance & Technology
September 16, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Web Services Connection A Q&A with insurance technology specialists on the adoption and implementation of Web services. |
Insurance & Technology
February 9, 2004
Greg MacSweeney |
2004 Top Insurance Business/Technology Issues This special report takes a look at some of the top business issues that insurance carriers will face this year and how technology can help make their challenges easier. |
Insurance & Technology
August 14, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Australian Insurance Industry Adopts ACORD Messaging Library The first standardized AML message being implemented will be for professional indemnity content that includes quote, bind, and close transactions for new business. |
Insurance & Technology
August 11, 2010
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Republic Idemnity CIO Discusses Claims Modernization Following a successful claims system replacement, Republic Indemnity's Rao Tadepalli offers tips to insurers looking to modernize their claims platforms. |
Insurance & Technology
July 10, 2008
Brady Polansky |
Technology Must Be Seamless and Consistent Between Carriers Insurers have to enable Web services to agencies in a way that it becomes seamless. |
PC Magazine
May 10, 2010
M. David Stone |
Canon imageFormula P-150 Scan-tini The Canon imageFormula P-150 Scan-tini offers desktop-caliber features in a portable package.... HP Scanjet Professional 1000 Mobile scanner... Plustek MobileOffice AD450... |
Insurance & Technology
May 16, 2005 |
Product And Services Showcase VoIP... Policy Administration... Payment Consolidation... Security Management... Messaging... E-Mail Management... Billing... Scanning... |
Financial Advisor
May 2009
David Lawrence |
Worth The Investment The simple truth is that those advisors boasting an efficient document management system can bring their costs way down over time. |
Insurance & Technology
February 8, 2004
Jamie Bisker |
Core Systems: Journey to the Center of Insurance An analysis of the state of core systems, and how to create renewable systems, in the insurance industry |
Insurance & Technology
September 5, 2008
Gary Kirkham |
BPM Creates a More-Agile Business The business demands process improvements that increase customer satisfaction and automate corporate functions to ensure good business practices. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2006
Clint Boulton |
IBM Grid in The Insurance Business IBM said it has created IBM Grid and Grow for Actuarial Analysis, a new grid computing package to help life insurance companies cut the time needed to run detailed insurance model scenarios. |
Insurance & Technology
May 18, 2007
Katherine Burger |
Insurance Industry Still Unclear As To How To Proceed With Legacy Systems It's time for the insurance industry to do something about legacy systems. But, not surprisingly in this industry, what it is that carriers should be doing is not always so clear. |
Insurance & Technology
December 13, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Principal Selects SunGard The Specialty Benefits Division of the Principal Financial Group has replaced its legacy policy administration system with SunGard's iWORKS COMPASS application. |
Insurance & Technology
November 24, 2003
Julie Gallagher |
Is Grid Computing Next Wave? Insurance companies that need to perform large processing tasks like scanning policies to see which ones are likely to generate claims can save money on hardware with grid computing. |
InternetNews
March 8, 2005
Jim Wagner |
CA Offers COBOL Migration Service The Legacy Renewal Solution transforms the popular, yet archaic, programming language onto J2EE or .NET platforms. |
Bank Systems & Technology
October 1, 2006 |
New Products Embedded Electronic Display Panel... ID Fraud Detection, Prevention... CA Accelerates ITIL Adoption... |
Insurance & Technology
November 25, 2003 |
Alliances & Partnerships Microsoft and ACORD... AIT and Fi-serv CBS Worldwide... Fair Isaac Corp. and DST Technologies... Siebel Systems and IBM... etc. |
PC Magazine
June 2, 2008
Edward Mendelson |
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended Adobe's PDF juggernaut not only gets more powerful, but also smarter and easier to use in this public beta. |
Insurance & Technology
February 6, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Document Automation Vendors Emerge As Enterprise Content Management Players As recent acquisitions in the content management space by HP and EMC demonstrate, in a Web-based world, solutions that focus on the end product rather than the storage location of content are becoming a focus of enterprise-wide content management solutions. |
Insurance & Technology
June 10, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Mid-Continent Group Seeks Speedy Path to Growth with Camilion The Tulsa, Okla.-based mid-sized P&C carrier is implementing Camilion's Authority Suite for policy administration, working with the vendor's implementation partner, Phoenix-based Discoverture. |
InternetNews
November 23, 2010 |
Invincea Looks to Boost Adobe PDF Security Invincea argues that Adobe's in-house "sandboxing" technology might not be enough to mitigate the risks to the often-attacked PDF document format. |
Information Today
January 4, 2010 |
Nitro PDF Express v2.0 Launched Nitro PDF Software announced the release of version 2.0 of Nitro PDF Express, a solution for comprehensive PDF creation and conversion. |
CIO
January 1, 2003
Christopher Lindquist |
Adobe's Serve Adobe has announced the availability of several new and upgraded server products designed to let companies integrate PDF documents more effectively into their daily business workflow. |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 1, 2004
Ivan Schneider |
What's So Great About Grid? You wouldn't allow your employees to remain idle 70 percent of the time. And you shouldn't stand for it with your lazy computers, either. Grid technology allows unused CPU capacity to be used in solving large computational problems. |
Insurance & Technology
December 13, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Can't Get No Satisfaction Recently released findings from an Ernst & Young Insurance and Actuarial Advisory Services roundtable reveal that, in most companies, IT and actuary employees have minimal contact. |
PC Magazine
September 13, 2006
M. David Stone |
Expert View: The True Blue Document Scanner There must be a simple, one-step option to scan, recognize, and save the file. |
Insurance & Technology
January 5, 2007 |
Techwatch Mobile Computing... Predictive Analytics... Underwriting... Document Management... Risk Management... Business Intelligence Petach-Tikva, Israel... etc. |
PC Magazine
September 13, 2006
M. David Stone |
Buying Guide: Document Scanners One of the benefits of creating text-based documents on a computer is that it's easy to find the documents again. |
Insurance & Technology
January 24, 2005 |
Alliances & Partnerships VantisLife Deal... AdminServer Joins IBM Network... Camilion, ePolicy Partner With ISO... DRC, Exstream Team... PHX, PMCS Partner... |
Bank Technology News
October 2003
Karen Krebsbach |
Getting on the grid Have financial services firms captured the Holy Grail of technology? That's what some observers say as firms implement grid computing -- an architecture that helps harness all the computer power across an enterprise. For Schwab's David Dibble, it's been a long time coming. Too long. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jan/Feb 2004
David C. Mayo |
PDF Power Adobe Acrobat helps brokers send and manage transaction documents. |
Wall Street & Technology
June 22, 2004
Ivan Schneider |
What's So Great About Grid? You wouldn't allow your employees to remain idle 70 percent of the time. And you shouldn't stand for it with your lazy computers, either. |
