Articles
Measuring Data Quality in the Eyes of an Actuary
Visual data measurement coupled with a baseline assessment and continuing monitoring will drive quality improvement and increase an insurance company's book of business.
Insurance Data Standards – Designing XML Messages (continued)
Accounting for the Unknown
This is the final article in a series that explores the issues around using XML to develop data standards in the insurance arena. This series addresses how to design XML messages for standards purposes.
Insurance Data Standards: Designing XML Messages (continued)
The Dangers of XML Inheritance
This is the third article in a series that explores the use of XML to develop data standards in the insurance arena. This series addresses how to design XML messages and various approaches for maximizing implementation of those standards.
Insurance Data Standards: Designing XML Messages
Organizations must create a data model before they implement XML.
The Benefits of Data Standards for Insurance
Companies differentiate themselves not by whether or not they use a data standard, but by how they use it.
News
Brotherhood Mutual Selects Information Builders
Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company has selected Information Builders WebFOCUS BI platform as its enterprise reporting standard to support a web of knowledge that makes the company more cohesive.
Oracle to buy Skywire Software
Skywire Software LLC sells both software and services that enable 1,450 insurance industry customers.
Business Intelligence Network Announces Embedded Business Intelligence Analytics Research Report and Web Seminar
Research report provides insight to how companies are benefiting from embedded BI analytics – Report authors Colin White and Judith R. Davis discuss the findings
BearingPoint Completes Implementation of Guidewire Claims System
Guidewire Software has completed the seven-month implementation of a new claims system for CompWest Insurance Company.
Phoenix Selects CSC's Insurance Software
The Phoenix Companies, Inc. has licensed CSC's Customer Service Accelerator software to improve customer service for its 650,000 life insurance and annuity policyholders and the financial advisors
who distribute its products.
White Papers
On-Demand BI for Insurance Organizations
Learn how to devise a strategy IT executives and data warehouse managers can quickly and effectively deploy to move large volumes of legacy data to UNIX platforms, optimize that data for efficient
and timely access, and empower users with pervasive BI.
Secrets to a Successful Business Intelligence Implementation
BI success is hampered by the disparity of user needs, data access, latency, resources & complexities -- learn why over 50% of BI programs fail & how to ensure program success.
Executive Guide to BI Success
Learn new methods to collaborate, explore & integrate vital business information company-wide, in a user driven environment.
Modeling Lifetime Value in the Insurance Industry
Acquisition modeling for direct mail insurance has the unique challenge of targeting responsive customers while minimizing risk.
Nationwide Insurance: Database Performance Improvement Case Study
Overall, customer has been able to demonstrate a ROI of 800 percent through use of Ignite for Oracle.
Case Studies
Insurance Industry Case Study
A large insurance company needed to update its legacy systems to accommodate more than 20 years of detailed premium and claims transaction data (more than 12 terabytes) to meet business intelligence
and analytic requirements.
Insurance Powerhouse Fundamentally Transformed its Fraud and Recovery Management Processes
By leveraging the power of text analytics and data-driven decisions fraud and recovery management processes have been streamlined.
Insurance Provider Increases Customer Value
After implementing ATi’s solution the company experienced increased revenues from improved profiles.
Spotfire Focuses Sales Analytics at La Suisse
La Suisse chose Spotfire DecisionSite to create an innovative Sales Performance Management application that simplifies the tracking, management, and communication of performance information for its insurance sales organization.
Solution Spotlights
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Marty Moseley, Chief Technical Officer of Initiate Systems
Marty Moseley explains how Initiate Master Data Service serves as a platform for organizations to apply master data management techniques to the business problems and needs of specific markets. |
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Suresh Chandrasekaran, Vice President of Marketing for Denodo Technologies Inc.
Suresh Chandrasekaran explains how Denodo integrates structured, semi-structured and unstructured data in enterprise data mash-ups and makes it available in a composite view for analysis. |
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Robert Baker, Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of Infoglide Software
Robert Barker explains how Infoglide Software is used to uncover risk, fraud, and conflicts of interest and is also a useful tool within MDM applications including product information management, customer data integration (CDI) and data quality. |
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