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Inside Track
The new millennium has brought new tools to the old game of legacy systems management. There also has been an increased emphasis on strategic alignment between business and technology as the metaphori...
Shop Talk
The policy administration system (PAS) is the electronic heart and lungs of an insurance operation. The PAS stores information about each insured risk, generates the company’s top-line revenue numbers...
Stats Watch
The life insurance products carriers are offering have been meeting the needs of the retirement community, but of greater concern to the industry is the younger generation, according to Rachel Alt-Sim...
Departments
Industry Intelligence
There probably isn’t any group in the IT department that has to address the question, “What have you done for me lately?” more often than the Web designers. The life insurance carrier New York Life up...
Business Solutions
Reacting to things is not considered a strategic plan, and reacting is the position in which Scottsdale Insurance found itself. To become proactive, Scottsdale turned to a business intelligence tool f...
The depressed economy has good and bad news for workers’ compensation insurers, said the chief executive officer of the National Council on Compensation Insurance at the group’s annual seminar. The go...
Agent Relations
The idea of real-time transactions—once known as SEMCI (single-entry, multiple-company interface)—between agents and carriers is getting plenty of publicity in insurance technology circles these days,...
Top Tech
For two years, Lincoln Financial Group CIO Chuck Cornelio has focused on integrating and consolidating systems as part of a major acquisition. With the bulk of that work behind him, Cornelio is turnin...
News
When hiring staff, I always consider such qualifications as job history, professional skills, interpersonal skills (the airplane test—could you sit next to this person on a plane for the next 14...