Underwriting
(39)
Comparing Secure Mobile Workforce Solutions: Research in Motion BlackBerry vs. Microsoft ActiveSync
[ Source: Microsoft ]
October 2009-In today's mobile work culture, corporate staff - from executive to individual contributor - work beyond the boundaries of the traditional office environment. To support this concept, many organizations are adopting mobile solutions for these employees, who expect not only access to information, but full participation in business from any location whenever it is required. What is the best solution for your company? What options are there?
This paper analyzes key user experience features ....
Role-Based Access Governance And HIPAA Compliance: A Pragmatic Approach
[ Source: Aveksa ]
July 2009-The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) imposed more stringent regulatory and security requirements to the privacy rules of HIPAA. Compliance with the letter of the guideline can be difficult for organizations without strong access governance processes and policies.
Healthcare organizations often struggle to maintain a consistent approach to govern user access across information resource, and as a result, may have an incomplete or fragmented posture of compliance throughout the ....
Solutions for 21st Century Healthcare
[ Source: 3Com ]
September 2009-To significantly improve the delivery of healthcare, an impressive arrange of new technology solutions are being introduced daily. 3Com designs solutions that deliver unique price/performance value, reduce complexity to facilitate healthcare delivery and ensure security to protect investments, resources and information.
In this case study, learn how 3Com can help you enhance patient care by maximizing business continuity, security, and productivity.
Virtualization for midsize businesses: reduce cost, improve service and manage risk
[ Source: IBM ]
October 2009-As data mounts, small and midsize businesses cope with a sprawling and often costly infrastructure. This paper shows how these businesses can benefit by implementing a virtualization strategy. A well-executed strategy can result in fewer, better-utilized servers, rapid provisioning of servers, affordable business continuity, and more streamlined, efficient management.
2009 IT Salary Survey: Meager Raises, Solid Prospects
[ Source: InformationWeek ]
April 2009-Raises are notably smaller than a year ago, and the pay shifts track the industries and regions hardest hit during this recession. Job security’s shrinking, and concerns are rising again about the IT career path. In all, though, IT careers are looking safer than many others in this economic downturn. Get all the findings in InformationWeek's comprehensive, annual IT Salary Survey.
Cloud Connect: Charting the Course of On-Demand Computing
[ Source: Cloud Connect ]
October 2009-Cloud Computing represents the biggest shift in computing of the last
decade. It's as fundamental as the move from client-server computing to
web-centric computing, and in many ways more disruptive. Learn the latest about cloud computing models, technologies and migration in this whitepaper by Cloud expert and Cloud Connect 2010 Conference Chair, Alistair Croll.
From Trust to Process: Closing the Risk Gap in Privileged Access Control
[ Source: BeyondTrust ]
October 2009-In this whitepaper, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) examines this critical issue in IT security administration in light of the BeyondTrust approach to helping businesses move from a trust-based system to a secure, auditable process in order to provide a higher standard of control and better support for regulatory compliance.
Tips and Tools for Automating Excel Spreadsheets
[ Source: Actuate ]
October 2009-Over 250 million people know how to use Microsoft Excel. Because so many end users are comfortable with using Excel for reviewing data and for conducting "what-if" analysis, delivering reports in spreadsheet format is a common requirement for reporting projects.
Download this whitepaper to learn key tips and tools for deploying a fast and cost-effective method of automating Excel spreadsheet manipulation, thereby, reducing potential costly mistakes.
Business Information Management Blueprinting
[ Source: Capgemini ]
November 2009-Organizations continue to invest millions of dollars in technology and solutions to create, manage and store business data and yet, despite these investments, many organizations are “data-rich” and “information-poor.” In addition to navigating the changes and consolidation in the Business Intelligence market, it has become increasingly difficult for companies to know if they are properly positioned in this important arena. How do you know if your Business Intelligence investment is on track? Capgemini has developed ....
Meet the Content Tsunami Head On: Leveraging Classification for Compliance Information Management
[ Source: IBM ]
November 2009-The world is awash in information. Exponential growth in the creation and storage of e-mail and other unstructured electronic business content has engulfed workers and swamped information systems, resulting in data and productivity losses, security breaches, and bloated infrastructures. Organizations are struggling to manage their business records amid increasingly complex legal and regulatory compliance pressures. This white paper is an urgent call for the promulgation of enterprise standards, strategically developed information ....
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 2009-
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 2009-
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 ....
Smarter Underwriting: New Strategies for Cost Control and Pricing Precision Using Decision Management
[ Source: FICO ]
January 2009-
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 2009-
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 ....
New Policy Admin System Shines Bright for Buckeye Insurance
[ Source: Insuresoft ]
June 2006-
Buckeye Insurance Group had spent 20 years enhancing its legacy system, and its problems and limitations were becoming obvious. Staffing (and turnover) was becoming a major issue. In September 2000, Buckeye went live with Insuresoft's Diamond 4.0. Within six months, data conversion for the personal-auto line was complete, and 10,000 policies were in the system.
More from the Policy Administration & Management Section
(29)- Billing (15)
- Quoting (20)
- Rating (11)
- Underwriting (39)
More Policy Administration & Management Resources
More On Policy Administration & Management
- News
- |
- Windows
- |
- Security
- |
- Outsourcing
- |
- Internet
- |
- Software
- |
- Hardware
- |
- Management
- |
- Research & Tools
- |
- Industries
- |
- Careers
|
|
InformationWeek Business Technology Network
|
 |
|
TechWeb
Events Network |
|