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Sophos Security Threat Report: 2010
[ Source: Sophos ]
February 2010-SophosLabs received 50,000 new malware samples every day in 2009. Malware attacks are broadening and becoming more evasive with social networking sites and new computing platforms becoming primary targets for hackers. Read the 2009 security threats trends and learn how to protect yourself in 2010.
Top 10 Security Rules for Today
[ Source: Solutionary ]
January 2010-Many of the security disasters in today’s enterprises are born not of brilliant cyber villainy, but through the sort of simple mistakes that employees make when rushing, taking shortcuts, or are generally just lulled into security complacency. When you read through the major breach stories, there is usually something at the root that was eminently avoidable. This white paper provides ten reminders that can help your company stay out of the headlines – and ....
Automating IT Workloads to Accelerate Customer Satisfaction
[ Source: CA ]
March 2010-IT can no longer continue to process workload on a nightly basis and provide output to the business the next morning. Get the tips to real-time data processing and how you can drive efficiencies across the enterprise.
A Comprehensive Approach to Practicing ITIL Change Management
[ Source: BMC ]
January 2010-Read "A Comprehensive Approach to Practicing ITIL Change Management," a compelling white paper from Enterprise Management Associates, to learn best practices for integrating your batch process automation and change management solutions.
A CISO's Guide to Application Security
[ Source: Fortify ]
November 2009-Security breaches are expensive. They cost time, effort, remediation, and reputation restoration. Many IT decision-makers tend to focus their security efforts almost exclusively at the network perimeter. They overlook the software applications that run their day-to-day agencies. These applications are often packed with Social Security numbers, addresses, personal health information, or other sensitive data.
Focusing on security features at both the infrastructure and application level isn’t enough. Organizations must also consider flaws in their ....
Data Protection on the Move
[ Source: Dell - Migration Expert Zone ]
February 2010-The vast world outside the confines of your protective firewall poses a growing threat to the safety of your company’s sensitive information. With everyone from CEOs to carpenters taking company networks to customer locations with them, an increasing amount of business takes place in that world.
This paper explores the nature of the security problems that accompany highly mobile computing devices and the building blocks for solutions to those problems.
Reduce IT Cost by Simplifying and Improving Data Center Operations Management
[ Source: BMC ]
February 2010-IT workload automation results in average annual savings of $750,000 in staff costs alone. Learn more about automating complex IT processes - read the whitepaper.
Monitoring the Web 2.0 User Experience
[ Source: Alertsite ]
March 2010-You can’t improve what you don’t measure—and what you measure matters. In the case of dynamic Web 2.0 applications, what you measure must reflect the real user experience—which can only be captured from within the browser.
The reason is that dynamic Web 2.0 applications often obscure visibility into performance, so they must be accompanied by changes in how application performance is monitored.
This report describes these issues and profiles a tool from AlertSite® ....
eDiscovery Compliance and Its New Requirements: The IT Manager’s Guide to 100% Compliance
[ Source: MessageLabs, Symantec Hosted Services ]
February 2010-Email messages, attachments, and electronically stored information (ESI) are discoverable and may be used as evidence in litigation. The US federal court system clarified electronic discovery rules and requirements with the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). Some 30 US state courts and Canada’s provincial courts have followed suit and enacted rules to define the role eDiscovery plays in state and provincial court systems. In this MessageLabs white paper, you’ll learn how to navigate ....
Uncovering Your Best Business Intelligence: How Next-Generation Insight Portals Turbo-Charge Executive Decision Making
[ Source: Saama ]
January 2010-For IT directors at large companies, delivering effective business intelligence (BI) is a critical responsibility. Corporations invest millions in data warehousing to learn more about the inner workings of their businesses but consolidating insights across multiple BI reporting systems is often a challenge.
Business functions like sales, marketing, operations and manufacturing collect data to help identify potential business problems. However, each functional area often uses different BI tools to collect and maintain this ....
Bankers Insurance Improves Disaster Recovery and Gains Efficiency by Replacing Paper Documents with Electronic Versions
[ Source: Perceptive Software ]
January 2007-
With headquarters in Florida, Bankers Insurance Group is in an area prone to hurricanes and flooding. Company administrators decided that paper records were too vulnerable, and opted to replace them with electronic versions managed in ImageNow. ImageNow supports Bankers’ disaster recovery plan by securely storing all documentation related to any claim or policy on the ImageNow server. WebNow, the browser-based complement to ImageNow, extends ImageNow functionality to any location and ensures documents are ....
The Case for a Stand-Alone Rating Engine -- An Oracle Insurance Brief
[ Source: Oracle Insurance ]
April 2009-
In the current economic climate, insurers are looking for ways to expand their distribution and sales channels, while still keeping their costs down. How can you accomplish both? A Web-based, stand-alone rating engine can give you the scalability you need to expand and grow, while providing the online rating capabilities your agents demand. What's more, de-coupling rating from your policy administration system, and consolidating multiple rating engines, reduces IT costs and duplication of effort. ....
Decision Management for Insurance: Revenue-Generating Decisions Begin at the Point of Sale
[ Source: FICO ]
January 2010-
A new generation of technology solution—Decision Management—is bringing revenue-generating decisions to the point of sale with precision pricing and straight-through processing.
In this white paper, you'll learn how Decision Management can deliver deeper insights into risk exposure, enabling you to expand risk tiers, assign more accurate pricing and rapidly bring innovative products to new markets. You’ll also see how Decision Management can help you contain costs by allowing business users to implement business rule ....
Get Ready for Success: 7 Ways Automation Improves Underwriter Efficiency and Customer Service
[ Source: Optical Image Technology ]
March 2008-
Underwriting today is all about efficiency and service. Managerial expectations dictate the need to process more work, faster, often with fewer human resources, and as cost-effectively as possible. Understanding customer demands, and knowing the details of your routine business processes, records retention demands, and other legal requirements is vital to the smooth running of an underwriting department. This article explains seven ways you can tap into digital capture, storage, and process automation to maximize the ....
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 ....
Policy Administration: Managing Distribution and Portfolio Shift in Turbulent Times
[ Source: Oracle Insurance ]
May 2009-
Recent market events have highlighted that the insurance industry must always be prepared for shifts in business climate. Yet in these cost-conscious times, many insurers are reluctant to invest in the systems that will support rapid changes in strategy and direction. How can you contain costs while still achieving the business agility that is critical to survival in today’s market?
Learn how a completely Web-based, rules-driven policy administration system can help you:
....
Smarter Underwriting: New Strategies for Cost Control and Pricing Precision Using Decision Management
[ Source: FICO ]
January 2010-
Today insurance carriers are extending the efficiencies achieved through back office automation to point-of-sale (POS) decision making across all channels, including self-service websites, in-house sales and agent/distributor networks. New Decision Management solutions not only facilitate straight-through-processing, by improving the quality of inbound data, they also increase the accuracy, objectivity and consistency of underwriting and application decisions, even when business volume is rising rapidly. In addition, by providing deeper insights into loss risk, Decision Management enables ....
The 11 Secrets of Business Rules Success
[ Source: FICO ]
January 2010-
Managing business rules gives insurers control over high-volume operational decisions in areas from underwriting to product configuration to claims management, and gives you the agility you need in a dynamic marketplace. 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, ....
Smarter Underwriting: New Strategies for Cost Control and Pricing Precision Using Decision Management
[ Source: FICO ]
January 2010-
Today insurance carriers are extending the efficiencies achieved through back office automation to point-of-sale (POS) decision making across all channels, including self-service websites, in-house sales and agent/distributor networks. New Decision Management solutions not only facilitate straight-through-processing, by improving the quality of inbound data, they also increase the accuracy, objectivity and consistency of underwriting and application decisions, even when business volume is rising rapidly. In addition, by providing deeper insights into loss risk, Decision Management enables ....
Policy Administration: Managing Distribution and Portfolio Shift in Turbulent Times
[ Source: Oracle Insurance ]
May 2009-
Recent market events have highlighted that the insurance industry must always be prepared for shifts in business climate. Yet in these cost-conscious times, many insurers are reluctant to invest in the systems that will support rapid changes in strategy and direction. How can you contain costs while still achieving the business agility that is critical to survival in today’s market?
Learn how a completely Web-based, rules-driven policy administration system can help you:
....
Decision Management for Insurance: Revenue-Generating Decisions Begin at the Point of Sale
[ Source: FICO ]
January 2010-
A new generation of technology solution—Decision Management—is bringing revenue-generating decisions to the point of sale with precision pricing and straight-through processing.
In this white paper, you'll learn how Decision Management can deliver deeper insights into risk exposure, enabling you to expand risk tiers, assign more accurate pricing and rapidly bring innovative products to new markets. You’ll also see how Decision Management can help you contain costs by allowing business users to implement business rule ....
The Case for a Stand-Alone Rating Engine -- An Oracle Insurance Brief
[ Source: Oracle Insurance ]
April 2009-
In the current economic climate, insurers are looking for ways to expand their distribution and sales channels, while still keeping their costs down. How can you accomplish both? A Web-based, stand-alone rating engine can give you the scalability you need to expand and grow, while providing the online rating capabilities your agents demand. What's more, de-coupling rating from your policy administration system, and consolidating multiple rating engines, reduces IT costs and duplication of effort. ....
Competitive Strategies for Managing Customized Forms
[ Source: EMC Document Sciences ]
January 2007-
Product customization is a common means by which carriers compete. As a result, most carriers are overrun with the multitude of administrative forms required to sell and service their products. This increases the analytical challenges placed on pricing and underwriting, makes marketing more difficult, and drives up costs.
Based on survey data and interviews with insurance carriers, this Celent report focuses on the impact that a customization strategy has on forms management, and ....
Managing Risk Intelligently: How to Leverage Business Intelligence to Improve Risk Management and Boost the Bottom Line
[ Source: Insurance & Technology ]
March 2009-
As the global economic crisis continues to batter the financial services industry, insurers’ very survival increasingly depends on their ability to manage risk. By weaving analytics into the fabrics of their organizations, innovative carriers are turning their massive stores of data into actionable intelligence, gaining a more complete view of their risk exposure and driving greater profitability to the bottom line.
BPM Done Right: 15 Ways to Succeed Where Others Have Failed
[ Source: Software AG ]
March 2008-
The rates of adoption of business process management (BPM) technology are increasing dramatically, and with them, the stories of missed expectations and wasted investment also are on the rise. BPM’s promises are real, but the path to success is littered with pitfalls and shortcuts to failure. Best practices can help you avoid them. The good news is that BPM has now reached a stage of maturity that ensures that customers who are just embarking on ....
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 ....
Bankers Insurance Improves Disaster Recovery and Gains Efficiency by Replacing Paper Documents with Electronic Versions
[ Source: Perceptive Software ]
January 2007-
With headquarters in Florida, Bankers Insurance Group is in an area prone to hurricanes and flooding. Company administrators decided that paper records were too vulnerable, and opted to replace them with electronic versions managed in ImageNow. ImageNow supports Bankers’ disaster recovery plan by securely storing all documentation related to any claim or policy on the ImageNow server. WebNow, the browser-based complement to ImageNow, extends ImageNow functionality to any location and ensures documents are ....
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