Who Should Lead Insurance Analytics Efforts?

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I&T Daily Saturday, August 10, 2013

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From The Blog Insurance Leaders Must Collaborate to Achieve Analytics Value By Gerald Shields, The Nolan Company Who should be in charge of deriving business value from analytics initiative? Ultimately, accountability is a collaborative effort. READ MORE Implications Of The Global Systemically Important Insurers List By Kathy Burger Insurance companies may push back against the Financial Stability Board's designation of nine companies as G-SIIs, but history shows that even prominent firms can stumble when it comes to financial and investment management. READ MORE COMMENTS OF THE WEEK Posted by SMC Do we know how many new sales of systems have happened as a percent if the total market? I often wonder how many large system sales imply a trend change. It is also worth learning how many of these new system purchases end up for other than new products. Many companies have found the resource drain and cost of converting old blocks to a new system prohibitively high, which means the infrastructure costs and servicing complexity go up as these new systems are added in without completely replacing the old ones. A study of system purchases over the last 5 years - maybe 10 - that resulted in the actual decommissioning of the legacy system would be very interesting. New systems are a necessity to stay competitive, yet it appears at least at the surface that their arrival has been additive instead of a net gain full replacement. In reply to: 6 Factors Driving Life Insurance Policy Admin Replacement (6) By Nathan Golia Posted by canadainsuranceplan.ca online experience can only be improved by reducing the fragmentation for example if i comment your article with Facebook-discus profile and twitter-discus somewhere else , it gets fragmented ,same case with cell phones ,android is scattered , unless there is one deep integrated pathway technology will be less done than being a delightful experience for user in any field may it be insurance policy comparison , getting optimized quotes for user needs accordingly. In reply to: Insurers Way Behind on Web Experience, Especially Health (6) By Nathan Golia Posted by Ivy Schmerken Meija Yasuda is also supporting its own Japan IT giant Fujitsu which has a partnership with Microsoft Japan. I wonder if the other tablet providers like Apple iPad have partnerships with Japanese IT giants like Fujitsu on customizing applications for insurance. Perhaps Fujitsu has a leg up in the insurance sector? In reply to: Japanese Insurer Adopts Windows Tablets (6) By Nathan Golia THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES What Esurance's Sponsored Bracelets Say About Insurance's Future Insurers Look to Claims Innovation to Survive Japanese Insurer Adopts Windows Tablets Are Insurance Technology Vendors Meeting the Industry's Needs? Manage Your Newsletter Subscription Keep Getting This Newsletter Add FTNNewsletters@techweb.com to your antispam whitelist Did someone forward this newsletter to you? Receive your own free issue. You are subscribed as EmailAddress To unsubscribe, click here | Privacy Policy. I&T Daily A free service of Insurance Tech Copyright © 2013 United Business Media Limited 240 West 35th Street | New York, NY 10001