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Honor Roll: This Week's Top Insurance Blogs (Nov. 8-14)
Our favorite insurance technology-related blog posts from around the Web (November 8-14, 2009): The Role of the Modern Insurance CIO
Celent's Craig Weber shares his impressions of today's insurance carrier CIOs, having spent time with many of them at a recent industry conference. In a completely unrelated story, Craig Weber recently spent time with many insurance carrier CIOs at I&T's 2009 Executive Summit. ---
Finally! Offshore Firm Buys McCamish
Novarica's Matt Josefowicz, who appeared in an I&T video earlier this week, expresses his lack of surprise regarding InfoSys Technologies' Acquisition of McCamish Systems. ---
Bruce Temkin quotes Mahatma Gandhi in this post on scenario design and usability, and suggests that firms should place more value on improving ease of use. In a related post, he shares data from Forrester's Customer Experience Rankings, naming the Top 25 companies (including a couple insurers) in its Ease of Use Index. ---
How MDM Helps Meet Data Warehousing Promises
Initiate's Lawrence Dubov discusses how the concept of master data management (MDM) co-exists with the data warehousing (DW) and operational data store (ODS) concepts developed in the 80s and 90s. "MDM takes the science and art of data warehousing dimensions and ODS development to the next architectural level," Dubov suggests. ---