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Cognizant: Digital Enterprise Architecture: Four Elements Critical to Solution Envisioning
Executive summary The digital revolution continues to transform our world. Mobility is rapidly ascending as sensor and actuator capabilities bring intelligence to devices of all ...
Generali strikes strategic technology partnership with Google
Generali and Google have entered into a strategic partnership aimed to disrupt the traditional insurance industry. The move will create and innovate a cloud-based platform of...
Aviva Ally Launches for Commercial Insurance Brokers
Aviva Canada announced the launch of Aviva Ally, a solution that provides commercial insurance brokers with a variety of ways to submit their small business insurance applica...
Global risk management survey, 11th edition
Article Synopsis : In recent years, financial institutions improved their risk management programmes in order to manage market, credit, and liquidity risk. Non-financial risk is ...
Sell policies online via Particeep plug based on API Rest
Particeep – one of France’s top InsurTechs according to Le Radar Assurtech 2018 of Olivier Wynam & policendirekt – enables banks, insurance companies, asset m...
Rather than fear the disruptive potential of insurtechs, commercial insurance executives should view them as a catalyst for digitisation
Article Synopsis : Commercial insurance executives are well aware of the benefits of digital but face several obstacles. Bigger companies are slow to adopt and adapt because ...
Oxbow Partners InsurTech Impact 25 2018
Article Synopsis : This year has been transitional for InsurTech. The proof of concept is no longer enough for executives – they want to see execution and results. As a ...
AXA launches Shared Services Centre in Manila; creates up to 300 IT jobs
AXA has established a shared services centre in Asia as a part of its digital transformation journey. The centres will be based in Philippines and Malaysia.
The new sh...
Seguros Monterrey New York Life Pitch – LIVEFEST 2018 North America Insurance Innovation Awards
Watch Jorge Alvarado, IT Transformation Manager, Seguros Monterrey New York Life talk about the focus on transformational projects for migration of Data Centers. Seguros ...
Patra Corp Continues Strong Investment in InsurTech With New Product Launches and Corporate Acquisition
Patra corporation has launched a cloud-based repository and delivery system called CertVault which helps to secure and streamline the delivery insurance policies. It has also...
ZhongAn Online Embarks Global Technology Empowerment Journey Expanding Insurance Boundary
In HK, Zhong An has announced the launch of a new core insurance system called Graphene which will enable insurance companies to synergize their their channels within a week,...
Enigma Raises Another $95M to Bridge the Gap Between Data and Business Decisions
Enigma is a New York a data-as-a-service startup enable organizations to make sense of their internal data and leverage real world data signals. To facilitate its idea, Enigm...
Grid Computing at Scale for Financial Services
Article Synopsis : This whitepaper from Amazon Web Services explores the massive potential of grid computing in Financial Services (FS) including known challenges and potential ...
TDI Webinar Aug 2018 – Technology Infrastructure for Global Insurers
The Technology Infrastructure for Global Insurers webinar was held on 29 August 2018. The agenda includes: Technology Infrastructure for Global Insurers Accelerating Business ...
The progressive cloud: A new approach to migration
Article Synopsis : Migrating apps and data to public-cloud platforms can be tricky. Companies can ease the transition with hybrid-cloud configurations that progressively combine ...
7 Essentials for a Successful Cloud-First Transformation
Article Synopsis : Cloud in the enterprise is no longer just a sandbox for developers, or a sneaky backdoor way for business units to get more IT resources fast. IT leaders ...
T&D Life Group leverages Swiss digital health technology
In Japan, T&D Life Group is partnering with Dacadoo, a Swiss digital health platform company to develop digital life insurance solutions.
Dacadoo operates a compre...
Zurich working with Apple on new broker app
In Q4 of this year, Zurich and Apple will jointly launch a broker app in the UK. The app has been integrated with Zurich systems to automatically supply useful information ab...
Future Trends 2018 – Majesco
Article Synopsis : Insurance 2.0—an increasingly borderless marketplace where partnerships with InsurTechs, MGAs, reinsurers, distribution channels and even other insurers is ...
Munich Re to reshuffle value chain, move closer to the customer
Munich Re, the German reinsurer is endeavoring to move closer to its customer. The plan is to leverage technology and digitize the existing value chain to sim...
AXA signs multi-year agreement with Oscar Health
Oscar has entered into a multi-year quota-share reinsurance transaction with AXA’s International Employee Benefits (IEB) division. The partnership comes...
AXA accelerates payer-to-partner strategy with acquisition of Maestro Health
AXA has acquired Maestro Health, a Chicago-based US health benefit administration digital company for a total consideration of US$155m. It will operate as a 1...
AXA turns insurance-as-a-service into reality
AXA Singapore has launched an insurance-as-a-service API to make it easier for digital channels to integrate their products. This is in response to the Monetary Authority of ...
Click2Sure re-imagines insurance distribution
Click2Sure is a South African based B2B2C platform that distributes specialised annex insurance (protection insurance as an add-on or bundled into a purchase) at point of sal...
AXA – achieving digital transformation objectives through Fast IT
The insurance industry, as a heavily regulated and complex field, has proven to be particularly resistant to change. Additionally, offline distribution and outdated IT system...
Aflac Partners with VUE to consolidate distribution process
Aflac, a leading provider of supplemental insurance in the US (covers risks that major medical insurance doesn’t cover) has deployed VUE’s distribution management suite...
GEICO improves efficiency and enhances customer experience with Duck Creek
Geico is best known in the U.S for its direct marketing and tailored property insurance policies. However, increasing competition from online platforms such as Goji and Metro...
Cloud as Rainmaker – Accenture Infographics
Article Synopsis : As insurers change the way they do business one common enabler emerges: Cloud. Insurers are reaping substantial cost savings and flexibility gains – both ...
Human API – Health Data Aggregation platform
Human API is a data aggregation platform that aggregates, stores and abstracts data from mobile devices, wearable sensors, and other internet enabled data sources. The servic...
Transforming Legacy Systems to Adopt Emerging Tech – RapidValue
Article Synopsis : Fast-changing industry dynamics and higher customer expectations create mounting pressure on insurers to pursue major technology as well as business process ...
Facing the digital “big bang” – BCG Technology Advantange Oct 2015
Article Synopsis : Digitisation continues to reshape the business world and technology excellence is a critical differentiator with the growing pool of digital customers. The ...
Vlocity mix cloud ancestry and secret blueprints to build an insurance business on Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com has become the de facto standard for customer relationship management systems (aka CRM). In a technology market that has experienced a seismic shift towards software...
Why Mobile Backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) Now – Cognizant Insight
Article Synopsis : Rapid adoption of smart phones and mobile devices is putting renewed pressure on carriers to embrace mobility as a key component of their business model. While...
Enabling transformation in insurance through digital collaboration
Introduction This article is a companion to, “Digital Collaboration in Insurance”, a primer on collaboration tools and their benefits, the trends driving their adoption, and ...
Digital reinvention – Trust, transparency and technology-IBM
Article Synopsis : The transformative impacts of social media, mobile technology, analytics and cloud drive a new technological lifecycle requiring the reinvention of markets, ...
Insurance Tech Trends 2012 – Elevate IT for digital business – Deloitte report by Mark White and Bill Briggs
Article Summary : With the recent advancement in cloud computing, mobility, social media, and big data techniques, the most important lever for future growth will be tied to the ...
A new era in insurance – Cloud computing – Accenture Report
Article Synopsis : Cloud computing has experienced tremendous growth recently and is increasingly being adopted by insurers. Looking at its immense potential, insurers should ...
Cloud Computing in Property & Casualty Insurance – Capgemini
Article Synopsis : Given the potential benefits of cost saving, agility, efficiency and scalability, there is a compelling case before insurers to leverage the potential of cloud...
Delivering on the Promise of Digital Transformation – Harvard
Article Synopsis : Emerging technology trends dictated by the empowered omni-channel customers are prompting insurers to take a more proactive approach towards managing their IT ...
The Digital Insurer – Capabilities Needed – Capgemini
Article Synopsis : Today’s customers evaluate product, service and delivery quality against the competitive benchmark of digital customer experience. To survive in the new ...
Digital Collaboration in Insurance
Introduction In today’s world, customers, employees and organisations are much more connected and this is clearly changing the way they do
The Drive to Digitization in Insurance – SMA white paper
Article Synopsis : As digital technology evolves, smart cloud-based software and applications are making paperless transaction a reality. Paperless transactions are growing in ...
How Cloud Computing will Transform Insurance – Accenture
Article Synopsis : The success stories of cloud computing across so many industries have compelled insurers to capitalise on the benefits that cloud offers. In the report ...
Cap Gemini : Simplify your journey to the cloud
Article Synopsis : In order to harness the business opportunities hidden in going digital, insurers across Asia need to build a digital transformation framework based on software,...
Actuarial Models meet the cloud – a perfect marriage?
This article discusses the benefits of migrating actuarial models to the cloud. The cost of actuarial modelling has been rising In the early 1980’s, life insurance company ...
Celent on IT insurance spending : Robust growth expected in Asia
Celent issued a report earlier in the year providing global perspective on IT spending in the insurance industry. The Digital Insurer was provided a copy of the report and has ...
Fact finds in the digital era
In this article Brian Hannan, an experienced life distribution specialist, explores the history of digitisation of fact-finding and explains why tablets are the ideal medium for ...
The Great Cloud Migration
New ways of working driven by users during 2020 are accelerating the shift to the cloud and highlighting the eventual...
Seibels Appoints Kellie Reid Director of Policy Administr...
Columbia, SC – Seibels is pleased to announce the appointment of Kellie Reid to Director of Policy Administration and Compliance. In this leadership role, Ms. Reid will oversee ...
Digital Experiences Are Being Built On No-Code Platform B...
Insurers globally are on a quest to deliver exceptional digital customer experiences. But, when it comes to modernizing product development, they report lackadaisical progress. ...
What technologies should insurers bet on in 2021? –...
IoT is a technology that insurers already use in property insurance. In the next
steps, the industry should maximise the potential of IoT in health and life
insurance ...
WTW updates RiskAgility Financial Modeller software
Re/insurance broker Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has launched a new version of RiskAgility Financial Modeller, its financial modelling and reporting
Willis Towers Watson unveils updated modeler for life ins...
Willis Towers Watson has launched a new version of RiskAgility Financial Modeler, financial modeling and reporting software technology for life insurers.
Here’s how digital technology helps insurers hit sustaina...
Better management of digital technology assets can help insurers reach their sustainability goals, says Accenture’s Jean-François Gasc.
Nationwide Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider
Through related services, Nationwide will be able to unlock data-driven insights, automate processes in the cloud, and deliver new digital services to customers.
SE2 acquires Convergent Financial Technologies
SE2’s acquisition of Convergent Financial Technologies will enable growth and expansion of UV Cloud®, an industry leading pricing and trading...
China Life transforms insurance at Chinese scale
Ruan Qi, head of technology, reveals how the world’s largest insurer by market value is becoming more agile.
Equinix adds SG5 data center
The infrastructure company adds capacity as Singaporean demand for cloud and digitization explodes.
Ebix and Data Glove Technologies Sign Strategic Outsourcing
Ebix, Inc., a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-
commerce services to the insurance, financial, healthcare.
Ebix and Data Glove Technologies Sign Strategic Outsourci...
Ebix, Inc., a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-
commerce services to the insurance, financial, healthcare and e-learning
industries ...
How financial services and insurance can use the cloud to...
How insurance can use the cloud to build agility
How do banks adopt cloud?
Robert Palatnick, DTCC’s tech leader, explains how financial institutions are implementing cloud processing.
Differentiated broking solution for tech, media and telec...
Willis Towers Watson has launched its tech, media and telecom differentiated broking solutions (TMT DBS) programme. It will serve clients in several industries, including electr...
The End of Enterprise Application Obsolescence?
Recent developments better support the continuous evolution of applications rather than the ‘boom and bust’ replacement life cycle that has dominated IT for the last 30 years.
Digital transformation and the digital insurance ecosyste...
Insurers have accelerated the pace to transform legacy systems to reduce costs, yield faster, more accurate insights from data and analytics, and operate IT with scale, resilien...
Powerful cloud services will drive ecosystem innovation
Companies that are technology leaders see cloud services as an innovation catalyst, says Accenture’s Jean-François Gasc.
Lloyd’s pushes ahead with next stage of transformation st...
Lloyd’s has launched the second phase of its modernisation strategy through Blueprint Two, which aims to build on previous work and ultimately deliver better value at lower cost...
Lola.com expands into fintech, launches business spend ma...
New Lola Spend product keeps teams on budget, gives real-time visibility into expenses, eliminates expense reports.
How Tech Investments Yield Innovation for Insurers
Insurers who are prepared and who manage their IT investments with a business mindset of ecosystem integration will be prepared to convert these challenging days into a growth o...
Financial Services Industry White Papers ( Banking and Fi...
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Relayr Receives 2020 IoT Edge Computing Excellence Award ...
CHICAGO, October 30, 2020 – relayr, a global industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology company, announced today it has received a 2020 IoT Edge Computing Excellence Award ...
Let business – not technology – set your cloud agenda
It’s vital that insurers align their business needs with the product sets of their cloud services providers, says Accenture’s Jean-François Gasc.
The AA Executes Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Data Analytics ...
“Insurance is a dynamic business. The cloud brings new opportunities for
deployment of next generation analytics,” said Paul Frith, Head of Underwriting
Data ...
Three big goals for a winning cloud strategy
A successful cloud strategy accelerates business growth, drives digital transformation and curbs costs, says Accenture’s Jean-François Gasc.
Better together: Integrating 5G and Edge to enable next-g...
As Cloud applications become increasingly important in the Insurance industry, what potential value are you missing by not integrating the capabilities of a 5G/Edge platform int...
Smart insurers are transforming themselves in the cloud
Cloud computing offers insurers far more than cost control. It has the power to transform businesses.
Insurance tech budgets after COVID-19: New priorities, fl...
The trend toward accelerating digital interaction development is happening, but it's not coming with a lift in financial resources.
It’s time for insurers to conquer their cloud fears
The cloud proposition for insurers has never been stronger, says Accenture’s Jean-François Gasc.
FINEOS: Moving Core To Cloud
Cloud-based SaaS core system software is enabling life insurers to shift their CapEx to OpEx. Mr. Pravin Budhdev, FINEOS, VP Sales, Asia looks at some of the shifts
Google Archives – CB Insights Research
Q&A: SSP on how technology can serve insurance post-...
SSP's sales director, Dean Richardson discusses legacy systems, the Cloud and how technology can serve the insurance sector post pandemic
How can insurers support remote work in the cloud?
Jim Bramblet and Jeana Muñoz discuss the benefits of cloud capabilities for North American insurers supporting remote work.
MSCI uploads its index business to the cloud
MSCI's new strategic relationship with Microsoft gives asset managers another reason to go to the cloud.
IoT in BFSI Market Size,Share and Growth Forecast till 20...
Internet of Things (IoT) in BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance)
Market Size, Share & Industry Analysis, By Component (Solutions and Services),
...
North American P&C insurers see decline in operating...
North American property and casualty (P&C) insurers saw underwriting results and investment earnings affected by the coronavirus pandemic in the first half of 2020, leading to a...
DXC’s Chaplin: “Tomorrow’s (re)insurer&...
The key resource for accurate, insightful and reliable coverage of Asia’s insurance and reinsurance market.
Thinking data centers? Think Asia
Algo trading, digital banking, and crypto are driving growth in Asia Pacific’s data centers.
Announcing new IoT partner solutions spanning automotive ...
AWS has broad and deep IoT services, spanning the edge to the cloud, to help ...
logistics and insurance companies with an easy-to-integrate aftermarket IoT ...
Cloud adoption in Life & Annuity: Are you in the 70 ...
Accenture’s Shay Alon discusses how life insurers can use cloud to reduce technology debt and become more competitive through innovation.
Covid has showed up real issues with insurance firms’ tec...
SSP's chief technology answers questions on the big issues of the day
Jeff Goldberg
Jeff Goldberg is SVP of research and consulting for Novarica, an insurance technology analyst firm.
Insurance digital transformation myths vs. reality: McKinsey
Many insurers miss out on the full benefits of transformation programs for key reasons.
LTI Recognized as a Leader in the ISG Provider Lens™ Next...
Information Services Group (ISG) has named LTI a Leader in Managed Services – Midmarket quadrant, in their 2020 ISG Provider Lens™ Next-Gen Private/Hybrid Cloud – Data Center Se...
gini makes enriched data available via AWS
The solution allows banks to keep data within their own private cloud.
Now is the time to move your insurance business to the cloud
Now is the time to move your insurance business to the cloud
Decentralization may fix the Sharing Problem of the Shari...
The rise of the sharing economy can be attributed to the minimalist movement, ...
to take charge of the car purchase/lease, maintenance, gas, washes, insurance, ...
COVID-19 reinforced cloud as an imperative for insurers
COVID-19 reinforced the insurance industry’s need for public cloud capabilities.
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