Bill Kenealy is a senior editor at Insurance Networking.

Predictive Modeling Making Insurer Inroads
February 8, 2012 Technology’s penetration most complete in personal lines: Towers Watson report

Battening Down For Data Breaches
February 7, 2012 New report details risk management best practices and mitigation strategies for cyber world

The Age of Data
January 24, 2012 Analytics is becoming the insurance industry's technology du jour

Mobile, Data Will Define 2012
January 9, 2012 Architectural consulting firm X by 2 names the top IT challenges and trends for the year

Insurers Acknowledge Customer-facing Shortcomings
November 10, 2011 Accenture survey says industry needs to embrace analytics and better tailor products and services to customers’ needs

Regulations Spurring IT Spend
November 8, 2011 New report foresees the financial services industry’s risk technology spending hitting $23 billion by 2013

8 Trends Redefining Insurance Technology
October 18, 2011 As technology advances and consumer expectations shift, insurance CIOs need to architect for a free flow of information

Top 5 Technology Investment Priorities For Insurers
September 20, 2011 Carriers looking to augment underwriting and policy administration systems, according to IVANS study

Analytics Making Inroads
August 30, 2011 Study reveals that use of analytics is becoming increasingly pervasive across the insurance enterprise; analytical talent...

Applying Predictive Analytics to Claims
August 26, 2011 New Aite Group report examines how predictive analysis can help insurers remake the claims process

IT Job Market Mixed
July 11, 2011 Latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows that 55,500 overall IT jobs have been added in the last 12 months, but with...

Is Big Data a Big Deal for Insurers?
May 31, 2011 The insurance industry is well positioned to exploit the ongoing explosion of data

Technology Bar Rising For Insurers
April 15, 2011 PricewaterhouseCoopers: use of analytics, social media and mobile technologies are essential to gaining market share in a...

IT Spending Shifts for Insurance
April 13, 2011 After lean years, industry increases spending on application development and data warehousing

Facebook Reveals its Server Secrets
April 11, 2011 While some may dismiss Green IT as fad, for insurance data center managers concerned about energy usage and its impact on IT...

A World of Trouble for Risk Managers
March 18, 2011 Managers and employees must be enabled to speak up about business they find exceeding a company’s risk appetite and to...

Cloud-based Outsourcing Expands
February 23, 2011 Savings, expertise prime reasons for deployment, survey says

No Small Matter
February 14, 2011 To be sure, smartphones are consumer products with some business functionality, while corporations remain the largest...

Global IT Spending to Rise
February 4, 2011 2011 Celent forecasts outlay of $363B by financial services institutions across the globe

The Evolving Arc of Analytics
January 27, 2011 SAS co-founder and CEO Jim Goodnight sees many new areas where analytics can help businesses solve problems despite the...

Dealing with Document Complexity
December 20, 2010 Celent analyst: create an architecture that stresses simplicity and unification of document management systems

WikiLeaks Imbroglio Renews Focus on Risk Management
December 13, 2010 With insurers storing vast amounts of potentially sensitive or embarrassing information, a risk mitigation culture must...

De-risking Data Conversion
December 1, 2010 New report traces challenges insurers face when moving information from one system to another

Data Quality at Heart of BI Woes
November 10, 2010 Novarica report states data quality and core system integration issues are primary challenges to insurers use of business...

Securing Social Media
September 1, 2010 New Deloitte paper assesses risk management issues with online groups

Social Media an Insurance Imperative
August 19, 2010 New report says insurers need to make accommodations for social media on business and IT roadmaps

Coalescing in the Clouds
July 15, 2010 Considering the miasma of hype and confusion surrounding it, the term “cloud computing” seems an apt appellation

An Embarrassment of Technology Riches
July 2, 2010 The new found ubiquity of technology requires certain recalculations from insurers about the role of IT staff

Insurers Embracing Agility
June 25, 2010 A new report from Novarica finds insurance CIOs warming to the use of agile development.

Herculean Tasks Facing Insurance Enterprise Architects
June 15, 2010 Maximizing legacy investment, advocating for new investment among primary challenges, notes Celent report

Gladwell to Insurers: Embrace Complexity
June 8, 2010 At IASA keynote address, author says businesses need to develop better analytic tools

The IT Spending Paradox
May 27, 2010 Carriers need to spend to optimize current business processes while simultaneously laying the foundation for future growth,...

Standards: A Shifting Landscape
May 18, 2010 With data exchange standards and technology maturing, the focus is moving toward implementation, architecture and advocacy

Much Work to be Done Before the Boomers Bolt
March 3, 2010 Insurers need to utilize a graying IT workforce to keep systems modernization projects on track

Social Networking: From Fad to Factor
February 9, 2010 Insurance carriers look to business-specific social networking tools to improve their interactions with producers

Insurers' IT Spend Varies
February 3, 2010 New SMA report explores why and how insurers buy and implement IT solutions

Guarding an Expanding Perimeter
February 2, 2010 A mixture of new technologies and business imperatives are causing insurers to redefine the boundaries of data security

Top 10 Risk Management Predictions
January 22, 2010 The newfound emphasis on risk management companies were forced to exhibit in 2009 will continue in the present year

Demand Down for IT Professionals
December 31, 2009 IT workers are facing an increasingly tough job market, a new study from Janco Associates finds

Hype vs. Reality
December 8, 2009 With market conditions restricting budgets, carriers contemplate everything from configurability to cloud computing

Fraud Screening: The Hunt for Suspicious Data
November 6, 2009 Since the upswing in fraud slices through all personal and commercial lines business, including P&C, workers' comp and health,...

Growth in Risk Management Spend
October 30, 2009 A new report sees an uptick in enterprise risk management spending

Antitrust Exemption of Health Insurers Imperiled?
October 9, 2009 The Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on legislation that would...

Completeness is Key When Contemplating Catastrophe
October 7, 2009 Given the constant improvement, it's not surprising that model architecture has not kept up with advances in computing power

Homing in on Risk Management
October 2, 2009 One of the most frightening aspects of the financial services meltdown is that it may well happen again. Indeed, a new paper...

Survey: Use of Social Media Can Expose Businesses to Risk
August 28, 2009 In the Twitter era, the ability of information or misinformation to spread rapidly poses operational risks for businesses, a...

Going With What You Have
July 16, 2009 With the financial crisis imbuing the need for frugality across enterprises, optimization of existing resources is paramount,...

A Green Slate for Allstate
June 2, 2009 New data center facility designed from inside out with energy efficiency in mind

Insurers Testing the Waters for Solid State Drives
May 21, 2009 While the advantages of solid state hard drives are legion, it may be a while before they make a big impact in insurance data...

Study Sees Continued Efficiency Gains
May 18, 2009 Data centers, and the economy as a whole, stand to gain as microprocessors become more powerful while consuming less

Insurers Drill Deeper With Data Standards
May 12, 2009 While long ubiquitous in business-to-business transactions, internal use of standards is becoming more prevalent in the era of...