More Profitable Decisions
[ Source: QlikView ]
September 2009-
Business Intelligence is not a “one-size-fits-all” category. Different approaches, including reporting, modeling and dashboarding, have been used to address the various challenges that exist across large organizations. Reporting-based technology was originally intended to answer questions that are known in advance — in a predictive fashion — with predefined views of information. But over time, a gap has emerged in addressing questions that are hard to predict and ad hoc in nature. And this is an ....
Leading-Edge Product Development Strategies to Improve Speed to Market
[ Source: Infosys Technologies ]
June 2009-
The insurance industry is going through a period of major change. Traditional products and markets are no longer providing growth opportunities. Carriers are forced to look outside their traditional products and markets for profitable growth. This is why it is important for insurance companies to understand the potential of leading-edge product development strategies to improve speed to market. With the aging of the baby boomer generation and their impending exodus from the workplace, there is ....
Modern Policy Administration Systems Require Modern Implementation Methodologies
[ Source: Camilion Solutions, Inc ]
December 2008-
The insurance industry is rife with anecdotes of late or failed implementations and millions of dollars lost in the process. In the Celent report "The 18 Month Rule: Avoiding The Endless Project" (Nov. 2006), it was noted that “between 30% and 80% of all large projects fail, with most estimates coming in on the higher side of this range.” But it doesn’t have to be this way –- implementations of modern policy admin systems can ....
Virtual & Dynamic Infrastructure Strategy
[ Source: Adaptivity Inc. ]
October 2008-
The more tightly bound an application is to its underlying platform, the less capital efficiencies are realized. The IT waste associated with under utilized hardware resources has been clearly demonstrated, which in turn has spawned the creation of datacenter consolidation programs that devise ways to more tightly compress the application infrastructure footprint onto existing hardware resources. Breaking the bonds that tie an application to an instance of an operating system and tie an instance ....
DR Capacity Harvesting Strategy
[ Source: Adaptivity Inc. ]
October 2008-
Every day IT is being challenged to do more with less. IT needs to eliminate waste wherever it is identified so precious resources can be invested into developing revenue streams and not merely supporting standard operations. To accomplish this, every ounce of compute power needs to be wrung from existing infrastructure. The largest area of untapped potential remains off limits for exploitation; the resources set aside for Disaster Recover (DR). Entire datacenters filled with ....
Next Generation Datacenter Transformation Strategy
[ Source: Adaptivity Inc. ]
October 2008-
Today’s IT organizations face a dual challenge of "keeping the lights on" while providing "new services" at unprecedented rates with reduced investment support from the business. At the same time the very business model of IT is changing —how applications, content, information, and infrastructure are delivered.
These demands and changes must account for the fact that external facing customer experience and corporate branding, as well as internal operational systems, depends heavily ....
Next-Generation Affinity Insurance Marketing via the Web
[ Source: IdeaStar, Inc. ]
September 2008-
The Affinity insurance distribution model illustrates the ways in which rather complex go-to-market systems can be simplified utilizing technology solutions and the Web. Moreover, Web-enabled technology solutions can be highly effective for the sale of insurance products and services to association members and affinity groups. The solution is robust. however, and requires a great deal of marketing savvy and technological capability. As with any affinity and member-driven organization, the goal is to provide valuable ....
Dilithium Content Adapter
[ Source: Dilithium Networks ]
June 2008-
The Dilithium Content Adapter (DCA) is a high capacity and scalable software solution that automates the adaptation and delivery of multimedia content to the widest range of networks and devices. DCA’s unique patented audio and video technologies enable on-demand transcoding, transrating and trans-sizing of multimedia content. DCA provides an open API that allows the development of innovative value added services. With DCA, service providers, content owners and aggregators can deliver ....
Taking Policy Administration System Transformation 'One Bite at a Time'
[ Source: Diamond Management & Technology Consultants ]
April 2008-
Most insurance carriers are placing policy administration system (PAS) transformation near the top of their to-do lists for the coming year, and many of these companies will expect a dramatic change in business results by moving PAS to the forefront of daily business operations. However, it is critical that carriers do not underestimate the operational challenges associated with replacing an existing PAS platform, because it will require changes to nearly every business process and technical ....
Face Fear to Implement the Right Software for Your Organization
[ Source: Optical Image Technology, Inc. ]
March 2006-
The biggest hindrance to implementing a new technology doesn’t lie in the bells and whistles the technology has or doesn’t have; it lies in the fear of change. The fact that companies aren’t doing more with technologies like document management has more to do with people than it does with the technology’s limitations or cost. Fear of change is a very real thing, and if technology isn’t chosen and implemented with that in mind, ....