3 Ways Insurers Will Compete on Data in 2012
12/22/2011Insurance has always been driven by data, and advances in the circulation and analysis of data will start showing their potential to change the industry by leaps and bounds.
Profile of Anthony O'Donnell
Blog Posts: 2240Anthony O'Donnell has covered technology in the insurance industry since 2000, when he joined the editorial staff of Insurance & Technology. As an editor and reporter for I&T and the InformationWeek Financial Services of TechWeb he has written on all areas of information technology in the property/casualty, life and health insurance industries, following the trends and issues faced by senior technology executives. In addition to reporting and editorial duties for I&T, O'Donnell also serves as a moderator and speaker at industry events and broadcasts. He began his editorial career in the healthcare industry where he reported and edited for medical publications with a variety of audiences, from the general public to physicians and researchers. He has also worked in the healthcare field as a media relations professional and Spanish/English interpreter/translator, and has taught English composition and conversation classes to native speakers of Spanish, both in the United States and in Latin America. O'Donnell lives in the Portland, Oregon area with his wife and two sons.
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posted in December 2011
posted in December 2011
Insurance has always been driven by data, and advances in the circulation and analysis of data will start showing their potential to change the industry by leaps and bounds.
Cigna Tech Exec John Defeo Drives Infrastructure Transformation
12/21/2011Supporting Cigna's new "individual-centric" business strategy, Defeo's organization's transformation program will reinforce infrastructure supporting customer-facing applications, deploy private cloud technology, reengineer core processes and recast the insurer's global network.
Earthquake Perspective on the Anniversary of the New Madrid Quakes
12/16/2011Bearing in mind RMS's estimates of the potential damage caused by a 6.0 quake at the New Madrid zone, it's chilling to think what a much bigger quake would mean.
Aflac Selects Hara System for Energy Management and Sustainability
12/15/2011Aflac will consolidate energy and emissions data into what the vendor describes as a comprehensive system of record for improved transparency, insight and enhanced sustainability.
Aviva Risk Management Solutions Pilots Tablet-Based Risk Assessment App
12/15/2011The SOLAR PlayBook App enables Aviva's 120 risk advisers to process technical risk information about commercial premises on site using pre-loaded Blackberry PlayBooks.
Agents Prefer Carrier Portals to Their Own Agency Management Systems Says Novarica
12/14/2011Agency staff preference varies according to role, but producers value ease-of-use above all.
Insurers Have an Opportunity to Differentiate Through Greater Transparency
12/13/2011Individual carriers can benefit by better explaining their comparative advantage, and the whole industry will gain from better explanation of how insurance works.
Federal Insurance Office Modernization Conference Anticipates Report Due January
12/12/2011The first ever meeting presided over by a federal officer charged with insurance regulation rehearsed themes likely to be touched on in a report mandated by Dodd-Frank.
Mythbusters Cannonball Accident: Insurance Risk Mitigation Failure?
12/9/2011Mythbusters sent a 30-pound cannonball into a residential neighborhood, destroying property but, happily, not killing anybody.
McCamish, Pegasystems Embark on Strategic Alliance
12/6/2011Pega's technology will enhance McCamish's VPAS life and annuity platform and its VPAS Benefit Plan Administration solution.
Insurance Companies Embrace Emerging Technologies to Support a Customer-Oriented Business Model
12/2/2011Members of Insurance & Technology's Reader Advisory Board report that they are embracing newer technologies -- including next-generation analytics and the cloud -- to drive a customer-oriented operational paradigm.
New Allianz Life CIO Jeff Palm Seeks to Improve IT's Value Proposition
12/1/2011New CIO Jeff Palm will look to deliver business value as he leads Allianz Life's policy admin system replacement and shapes the company's IT organization for the future.
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