INNOVATION IN INSURANCE ANALYST SURVEY 2012
Insurers Explore the Imperative to Automate (5/17)
Property/Casualty Leads in Software Deal Volume (5/17)
Push Seen in Core Systems Upgrades (5/16)
7 Tech Solution Providers, 6 Insurers Receive Awards (5/16)
ACORD Announces New Member Services Initiatives (5/15)
Tech Boom in NYC (5/11)
Embracing Mobile-Enabled Portals for Agents, CSR's (5/11)
Millenial Media Report Reveals Money to be Made in Mobile Finance Market (5/9)
CIOs Emphasize Communication, Enterprise Integration (5/8)
Guidewire Enhances Rating Function of Policy System (5/8)
Where Big Data Shows Huge ROI (5/7)
IT Job Growth Limited to Processing, Boston and Palo Alto (5/6)
Building IT Systems Like They Used To (5/4)
MPLI Outperforms Property/Casuality in 2011 (5/3)
Mobile Technology Changing the Face of P&C Insurance (5/3)
Insurers Using Social Media, But Not Seeing Increased Sales (5/2)
Claims Upgrade Pays Dividends (5/1)
IT Security Spending Boom Continues (4/26)
States, Insurers Seeking Answers in Volatile Worker's Compensation Line (4/26)
FICO Solution to Combats Insurance Claims Fraud (4/26)
IT Employment on the Road to Recovery (4/26)
Returning Warriors Face Driving Safety Risks (4/24)
Many Insurers Struggle With Mobile Mindset (4/19)
Insurance Companies Look to Online Retailers as Role Models (4/19)
Product Configuration: Bringing Order and Efficiency to the Modern Insurance Enterprise (4/19)
Health Plan Executives Focus to Technology (4/18)
Inside a Claims Management Company's Tech Strategy (4/18)
New Great-West Life App Lets Members Submit Insurance Claims (4/17)
Insurers Eagerly Invest in Document, Content Technologies (4/17)
Successful Claims Strategies Must Address New Customer Attitudes & Expectations (4/17)
Oracle Suit vs. Google Over Android Hits Trial (4/16)
Insurers Social Media Examined (4/16)
Archived News
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RE: CUSTOMERS
COUNTRY Financial Implements CGI Offering (5/17)
SBI Insurance Becomes the First Japanese Company to Select Guidewire InsuranceSuite (5/2)
Westfield Insurance Selects Guidewire Solution for Claims Management (4/26)
IBM Bolsters Data Analytics with Purchase of Vivisimo (4/26)
Falcon Selects 4Sight Business Intelligence P&C Solution (4/25)
CNA Canada in Production with MajescoMastek's STG Policy Administration for Commerical Auto Fleets (4/25)
USI Acquisition of BBVA Compass Assets Worth $27 M (4/20)
Brown & Brown Acquires Moten Associates (4/20)
City of Albuquerque Implements PCIS Solution (4/19)
Falcon, Maximum Processing Agree to Stingray Admin System Upgrade (4/18)
Universal North America Chooses iPartners' Business Intelligence Solution (4/17)
The City of Albuquerque in Production with PCIS ClaimsVISION (4/17)
Union Mutual Brings Its Policyholder and Agency Portals Into the 21st Century (4/10)
Farm Bureau Financial Services Selects Accenture Claim Components to Optimize Claims Handling (4/7)
Accurence Aligns With First Choice to Improve Settlement Software (4/6)
CSC Signs BPO Contract With Amerisafe (4/5)
Capgemini To Implement Guidewire ClaimCenter for Zurich UK (4/4)
TM Floyd & Company sponsors POSSCON 2012 (3/2)
Co-Operative Insurance Licenses CSC Claims Software (3/28)
SCF Arizona Selects Guidewire for Rating, Underwriting, Policy Administration, Billing and Claims Management (3/28)
Mitchell Partners Bridge with Universal SmartComp on WC Software (3/26)
QBE North America Selects Guidewire Solution for Claims Management (3/22)
Update: Reactions to The Hartford's Strategic Announcement (3/22)
Aetna, McKesson Partner on Automated Payment Platform (3/21)
Lumley General Insurance New Zeland Deploys Guidewire for Underwriting, Policy Administration and Billing Management (3/20)
The Dominion Selects Guidewire BillingCenter (3/14)
AXA Insurance Taps IBM to Leverage Growth Opportunity in Romania (3/14)
Farm Bureau Financial Services Selects Accenture Claim Components to Optimize Claims Handling (3/7)
Who's Using What: Software Technology Implementations (3/1)
SafeAuto Insurance Selects Guidewire for Underwritting, Policy Administration, Billing and Claims Managements (2/28)
Physicians Mutual in Production with InsPro Enterprise (2/28)
iPartners' Insurance Scorecard Selected by Farm Bureau Insurance of Michigan (2/28)
AJG, E&S Expands into LA; USI, Brown & Brown Also Make Acquisitions (2/23)
Country Financial Selects MajescoMastek's STG Billing to Replace Legacy System and Streamline Billing Processing (2/21)
Co-operative Insurance Companies Selects iPartners' Insurance Scorecard (2/21)
RLI Selects Guidewire Solution for Claims Management (2/21)
Enservio Continues Growth, Acquires Insurers World (2/16)
Direct Line Italy Selects Guidewire Solution for Claims Management (2/16)
Enservio Acquires Insurers World (2/16)
Foresters Selects iPipeline's iGO for US Sales (2/16)
JLT Partners with Banca March To Form March-JLT (2/15)
John Hancock Signs $25m Annuity Admin ITO Contract Extension With CSC (2/15)
HCL Technologies and Great American Insurance Group Ink Integrated IT, BPO and Infrastructure Management Service Deal (2/15)
Johns Hopkins Health System is 100th Healthcare Provider to Integrate OnBase With Leading Electronic Medical Record System (2/15)
Agencyport Software Provides Willis and R&Q Tools to Serve Energy Clients (2/15)
Interamerican Selects Clerity, Veryant for Mainframe Migration (2/13)
SelectHealth Picks Landacorp Suite for Care Management (2/8)
Hartford Soars as Big Shareholder Paulson Pushes Breakup (2/8)
Sentry Insurance Upgrades Compensation Management Solution (2/3)
InsureZone Adds Sequoia Insurance to Online Platform (2/2)
FMG Selects Guidewire for Underwritting, Policy Administration and Billing Management (1/31)
Auto-Owners Insurance Group Selects Guidewire Solution for Claims Management (1/26)
Beazley Joins Growing Number of Insurance Carriers on ProspX Platform (1/25)
Leading Lloyd's Sydicate Goes Live with FINEOS for the London Market Insurance Broadcasting (1/24)
RE: PRODUCT/SERVICES
Accenture Offers New Business, Underwriting App for Life Insurance in the Cloud (5/15)
The Hanover Launches Powerful New Small Commerical Portal (5/10)
SAS Upgrades Compliance Software Offering (5/10)
Pro-Concepts Releases Risk Management Application (5/9)
LexisNexis Migrates to Big-Data Processing Platform (5/4)
Lexington Launches Technology Contract Risk Policy (5/2)
FICO Launches Claims Fraud Solution (4/25)
AIR Expands Solutions to Include Supply Chain Risk Quantification (4/16)
FICO Focuses on Deployment of Predictive Analytics Modeling, ROI (4/12)
CSC Launches BizCloud in Canada - the Industry's First On-Premise Private Cloud Billed as a Service and Ready for Workloads in 10 weeks (4/12)
Verisk Offers Property Prefill to Streamline Replacement Cost Estimation (4/9)
Verisk Forms Crime Analytics Division (3/29)
American General Structured Settlements Launches Distibution App (3/20)
Accenture Releases Life Insurance Platform (3/14)
SeaPass Introduces its Distribution Portal for MGAs and Wholesalers (3/5)
OneShield Introduces Dragon Billing (3/1)
Loyal American Life Launches Agent Portal (2/29)
Mitchell Releases Claims Triage in WorkCenter (2/28)
TriZetto Debuts Version 5.0 of Its Enterprise System (2/23)
XL Group Unveils Multi-Channel Insurance Claims Customer Portal Developed with Accenture's Support (2/24)
Accurence Introduces ScopeAssist, Transforming the Estimation Process for Roofing Contractors Through Scope Automation (2/22)
MajescoMastek Introduces Elixir Distribution Management Producer Self-Service Portal (2/22)
Lexington Unveils Product to Protect Colleges from International Student Tuition Loss (2/16)
Pitney Bowes Launches Wildfire Risk Solution for Insurance (2/14)
Oracle Launches Applications for Solvency II Reporting (2/8)
American Family Launches Mobile Ad Campaign (2/8)
Mitchell Enhances SmartAdvisor Solution for Workers' Comp (2/7)
DMI Launches Mobility Solutions (2/2)
Instant Binding Now in the Future for Progressive (2/2)
USAA Mobile App Usage Soars (2/1)
XL Group Unveils Multi-Channel Insurane Claims Customer Portal Developed with Accentures's Support (1/24)
RE: ALLIANCES
Majesco Matek and CIC Partnership adds Electronic Signatures to Elixir North America Policy Administration System (5/15)
ACORD, XBRL Explore Interoperability (5/15)
ProspX Partners with World Risk and Insurance News to Deliver Targeted Video Base Content to Brokers and Carriers (5/8)
IBM Makes Bid for Tealeaf Technologies (5/3)
USC partners with iT-ology to "Create IT Discovery" for Local Youth (4/15)
Symbility Completes Purchase of MSB Claims Division (4/11)
Accenture to Team with SAS Institute to Help Folksam Meet Solvency II Requirements (4/3)
Hedge Fund Head Paulson Says The Hartford Should Split by April (3/12)
TM Floyd & Company Sponsors POSSCON (3/2)
Agencyport Software and Valen Technologies Partner to Deliver New Predictive Analytics Solution to Insurance Industry (2/24)
Rough Notes, ProspX Partner to Deliver Targeted Business Intelligence to Insurance Agents and Brokers (2/21)
LeadersCove LLC Becomes Approved Provider of OPTM360 (2/21)
Mitchell Partners with San Diego County Office of Education to Broaden Youth Career Opportuniteis (2/20)
Farmers New World Life Insurance Company Deploys StoneRiver's LifeSuite Automated Underwriting (2/10)
MajescoMastek and Appian Announce Partnership (2/4)
Hub Acquires New Mexico brokerage (2/1)
Tenzing Joins Guidewire Software PartnerConnect Program (1/31)
The Schul Group Partners With ProspX to Help Companies Improve Sales Productivity, Performance (1/31)
RE: PERSONNEL
Fraud Case Versus AIG ex-CEO Greenburg Cleared For Trial (5/9)
Hires and Promotions at Willis Re, Iron-Starr and Mayer Brown - Around the Industry (4/23)
Discount Program from Colonial Life Helps Employees Save on Medical Costs (4/17)
This Week's Featured Jobs | DPP (4/16)
IT Jobs Focus from DPP (4/9)
Colonial Savings Names John Quinones CIO of its Banking, Mortgage and Insurance Companies (4/4)
Highmark Boots it CEO, Aon's Director to Step Down (4/2)
Joe Johnson to Lead Major Medicare Contractor Palmetto GBA (3/30)
Erie Hires 3, Promotes 6 (3/22)
Great American Names P&C Claims SVP (3/22)
Prudential Names Jim Pogue to Head Group Life Products (3/16)
2 Insurance Execs Elected to AIA Board (3/14)
MGIC Names New CIO (3/9)
Alfac Incorporated Hires Joesph F. Meyer as Global Chief Operating Officer of Investment Division (3/7)
Republic Companies Names New President & CEO (2/29)
Prudential Names Joseph Hayes Group Insurance CIO (2/28)
CNO Names Chief Technology Officer (2/27)
Hires and Promotions at Starr, IMUA, Zurich, Partners, Vertafore, AmWINS, and Affliated Insurance Managers - Around Industry (2/22)
S.C. BlueCross Taps Olsen to lead Third Party Administrator TCC of South Carolina (2/21)
Vertafore Names Mark Craig Senior Vice President of Product Management (2/15)
AIG Reviewing Succession as Chairman Takes New Job (2/9)
Thomas M. Cornish Heads Up ProspX Advisory Council (2/8)
CSC Appoints President, CEO (2/8)
Colonial Life Names Top National Award Winners (2/7)
ACE Appoints Head of Analytics for EMEA (2/3)
Zurich promotes Sabrina Hart to North American Underwriting Post (2/2)
CAIF Co-Chair Elected (2/1)
RE: OTHER
UConn Recognizes Cigna for its Tech and Business Contributions (4/30)
Top Quotes of the Week from the Insurance Tech Industry (4/6)
Aflac Foundation Contributes $1 Million to Chattahoochee River Restoration Project (3/19)
Kershaw County School District to Implement the OrganWise Guys Healthy Eating Program in 11 Elementary Schools with $44,354 SC BlueCross Foundation Grant (3/16)
RIMS Applauds New York Broker Disclosure Ruling (3/14)
BYOD Policy Template Released (3/13)
Palmetto Chapter Honors Roger and Barbara Blau in an evening focused on the Hearts and Heroes of JDRF (2/17)
Hartford Breakup Talk Returns (2/12)
OnBase Helps Universal Group Earn a 2012 Celent Model Insurer Award (2/10)
Ebix Board of Directors Authorizes Regular Quarterly Dividend of $0.04 Per Share (2/3)
Will GPS Monitoring Decision Impact Employers? (1/29)
Sapiens ALIS Sets New Record on Over-Night & Month End Data Processing (5/16)
Guidewire Enhances Rating Management for Improved Insurer Business Agility (5/8)
State Farm Overhauls Mobile Web Site (5/8)
S.C. BlueCross Patients at Lancaster Medical Practice Improve Health Under New Model (4/30)
Agencyport Releases New Verison of BookSmart Software (4/26)
Approximately 2,350 Walkers Cover 2,700 Miles in S.C. BlueCross Walk @ Lunch Day Community Events (4/26)
Cover-All Releases BOP Product for Nex-Gen Suite (4/24)
Aflac Inc. Announces First Quarter Results, Raises Alfac Japan Sales Outlook, Reclares Second Quarter Cash Dividends (4/24)
Liberty Mutual Debuts Mobile App for Employees (4/23)
Aflac Inc. to Release First Quarter Results on April 24th, 2012 (4/17)
SC Bluecross, Greenville Drive Team up to Offer Free Health Screenings (4/16)
Archived Company Announcements
Visit the Accenture Insurance Blog
Insurance CIOs Describe Their First Steps into Cloud (5/14)
Evaluating Enterprise Software, Part One (4/30)
Virtual Viewpoint: Business Issues Need to Drive Investment (4/26)
The Way We Were and Will Be (4/24)
3 Keys to Turning the Potential Pain of Consumerization into Pleasure (4/19)
Policy Admin Systems: Building a Better Boat (4/17)
Consumers Don't Fully Trust Health Insurers on Social Media: PwC (4/17)
Canadian Insurers Use Technology to Battle Cross-Border No-Fault Fraud (4/17)
Archived Blogs
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