I spent last weekend reconfiguring and rebuilding the search indexes for a client. We indexed something like 3.5 million items, consisting of about three terabytes of data....

Almost a year ago we looked back on 2008 and remarked on three things: the financial state of the insurance industry, the corresponding software market, and the “arrival” in our market of giant software vendors. ...

Allstate Insurance and its Allstate Motor Club have launched a new mobile application that brings roadside services directly to drivers with iPhones and selected BlackBerry models. ...

It didn’t take Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co. 100 years to realize changes needed to be made in how the company handles workflow and business processes. ...

As CIO of HealthPartners, the country’s largest consumer-governed nonprofit healthcare organization, Alan Abramson has been at the forefront of some of the most innovative uses of technology in the healthcare industry. ...