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 ....

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 ....

Leveraging the ACORD Capability Model [ Source: TechWeb ]
January 2009- BA Scott, AVP, New York Life; Deb Smallwood, co-founder, Smallwood Maike Associates; Frank Neugebauer, senior enterprise architect, ACORD; and Anthony ODonnell, Executive Editor, Insurance & Technology

11 Secrets of Business Rules Success [ Source: FICO ]
May 2009- Managing business rules gives you control over high volume operational decisions and delivers unprecedented agility. Based on decades of experience developing decision management applications, FICO has developed 11 steps to help you make the most of business rules. These include:

• Picking the right applications. Business rules are a powerful tool for building smarter decisions into your applications but are better suited for some applications than others.

• Following a process. Like ....

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 ....

Business Analytics for Insurance Claims [ Source: TechWeb ]
August 2009- Insurance Companies: See how you can reduce your claims expenses by 10 percent. To find out how Diversified Insurance lowered their loss ratio by implementing SAS, go to www.sas.com/insvideo

Innovation in the Insurance Industry – Leveraging Communication Technology [ Source: Wipro Technologies ]
May 2009- Innovation is about implementing new solutions using old or new tools. Internet and mobile are emerging as the new channels of communications with multiple stakeholders through different touch points such as mobile apps, social networking, blogs and wikis. This article explores how these technology touch points can be leveraged by insurance companies to innovate tools of communications with different stakeholders -- internal and external.

A Smarter Insurance Close Up [ Source: TechWeb ]
June 2009- Turning data from into information is a challenge for carriers disadvantaged with legacy systems. IBM can help insurers access new sources of data by creating more flexible systems that provide intelligence.

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 ....