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InternetNews April 22, 2004 Clint Boulton	TIBCO Bags Staffware for $217M In an effort to broaden its portfolio and extend its influence overseas, TIBCO Software said Thursday that it will acquire U.K.-based Staffware for $217 million in cash.
Insurance & Technology March 16, 2004 Anthony O'Donnell	Many Paths to Integration The ideal of a fully integrated, end-to-end, real-time enterprise is a worthwhile goal, no matter what your lines of business may be. But who you are will shape how you get there.
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Insurance & Technology July 12, 2006 Maria Woehr	Digging for Dollars The insurance agent often is portrayed as going door to door with an oversized briefcase brimming with paper applications. While that might have been so in the 1950s, today, selling insurance means connecting with the customer, and it takes more than just a smile and a shoeshine. It takes knowledge.
Insurance & Technology January 17, 2006 Maria Woehr	GuideOne Selects Insurity Looking to replace its aging core systems with a Web services platform, GuideOne Insurance will implement Insurity's Policy Decisions policy administration system for underwriting, rate/quote, workflow and policy issuance for commercial and personal lines.
Insurance & Technology November 17, 2004 Steve Forte	Hitting the Wall As existing policy administration systems impede effective reengineering of business process improvements, leading insurers have begun to recognize the strategic importance that policy platforms play in critical process improvements.
Insurance & Technology August 7, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell	Policy Admin System Replacement: Insurers Shift Focus From Systems to Functionalities Interboro Insurance Co.'s policy administration replacement initiative was in key respects a classic case.
Insurance & Technology February 1, 2006 Phil Britt	A Web of Support There has been an upturn in insurers' investments in Web-based tools that enable agents to work more efficiently and, through those efficiencies, sell more, increase commissions and make more money for the companies they represent.
Insurance & Technology September 16, 2005 Deena M. Amato-McCoy	Eye of the Storm Insurers that implement processes and technologies for accurately assessing data and measuring risk across business lines and geographies before disaster strikes will weather the storm.
Insurance & Technology September 14, 2004 Anthony O'Donnell	The Power of One Creating a single, unified technology infrastructure built with an eye to future channels can make taking advantage of insurance market opportunities easier and much less costly.
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Insurance & Technology September 7, 2007 Susana Schwartz	Main Driver Behind STP Initiatives Today Is Ease Of Doing Business Straight-through processing is more a business issue than a technology, and is fundamental to the ability to drive intelligence into the underwriting process and throughout the organization.
Insurance & Technology March 18, 2005 Lori Widmer	Speeding the Cycle It isn't often that a company is able to find solutions to its processing problems in one place.
Insurance & Technology January 25, 2005	Deja Vu All Over Again Many of the major areas of focus for senior insurance technology executives in the coming year will be familiar ones that have become even more pressing. Insurers will boost their offshore outsourcing activities and increasingly dip a toe into business process outsourcing (BPO).
Insurance & Technology November 26, 2003 Cynthia Saccocia	Placing Your Bets Technology Will insurers ante up on technology investments in front-office or back-office systems in 2004, or hold back? In this exclusive preview, TowerGroup assesses the field.
Insurance & Technology January 17, 2006 Cynthia Saccocia	Managing in the Best and Worst of Times The insurance industry leaders - from megaglobal insurers to small regional or niche carriers - are achieving excellence by concentrating on profitable growth and competitive advantage.
The Motley Fool June 18, 2007 Emil Lee	Disaster Preparedness: Are Insurers Ready for the Big One? With private insurers withdrawing from the coastal areas, leaving the taxpayers holding the bag, one wonders: What should investors do if the big one does hit?
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Insurance & Technology September 16, 2005 Lori Widmer	New and Improved Sompo Japan Insurance Company of America chose Insurity's Commercial Intellisys (CII) policy administration system to improve policy issuance by replacing their DOS-based policy admin system with a Web-based system.
Insurance & Technology December 23, 2005 Maria Woehr	NaviSys Supports TIAA-CREF The enterprise platform based on J2EE standards enables insurers to add and reuse complex new insurance concepts utilizing upgraded configuration tools.
Insurance & Technology April 14, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell	COUNTRY Financial Goes Live on Insurity's Policy Decisions Implementation of the customized commercial lines at Insurity solution is aimed at bringing greater value to the financial representative and independent agents supported by COUNTRY Financial and its MiddleOak affiliates.
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Insurance & Technology August 10, 2006 Lori Widmer	Taming Paper Tigers Following an assessment of the underwriting process by Software AG in May 2005, the vendor recommended that ACMIC implement business process management to automate new-business application processing.
Insurance & Technology May 19, 2009 Kaytes & Josefowicz	Technology and the Science of Customer Retention Data accessibility, analytics, rules-driven workflow, and process visibility can supply the capabilities insurers need to retain profitable customers.
Insurance & Technology February 6, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell	Insurers Seek Competitive Edge Through Underwriting Analytics Underwriters have come to appreciate technology much the way agents have.
Insurance & Technology January 10, 2008 Katherine Burger	What Could Prevent the Property/Casualty Industry from Continuing Its Strong Performance? Here is why the property/casualty insurance industry's current underwriting prowess might not be long-lasting.
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CFO April 1, 2003 David M. Katz	Holes in the Net? Insurers' woes are mounting -- and your company's coverage may be at risk.
The Motley Fool December 12, 2006 Emil Lee	Insurance Industry Basics: Combined Ratio Investors who buy insurance companies with low long-term combined ratios should eventually be rewarded with superior investment returns. Just ask Warren Buffett.
Insurance & Technology January 5, 2007 Matthew Josefowicz	Responding to a Changing Market: The Core Is Key Core systems replacement has been compared to open-heart surgery -- it is one of the most drastic changes that insurers can make to their IT infrastructures.
Insurance & Technology February 1, 2006 Cynthia Saccocia	Value-Added Sales Services Improve Producer Productivity Insurers that demonstrate that they can help producers make more money can differentiate themselves from the competition. To create long-term competitive advantage, carriers must incorporate value-added sales services to their efforts.
Insurance & Technology November 15, 2007 Katherine Burger	Insurers' Technology Investments Transform Catastrophe Claims Management Strategies While technology's power is welcomed by the public, politicians and the media in terms of catastrophe claims response, it's not always so appreciated when it comes to how insurers deploy it to forecast, analyze and underwrite risks.
Insurance & Technology January 25, 2005 Cynthia Saccocia	Did You Say Controlled Tech Spending? Aw, Not Again! Insurance is an industry that reacts decisively to its business cycles and urgently to intrusions of reality such as catastrophic claims, economic issues and regulation.
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The Motley Fool March 6, 2007 Dan Caplinger	The Ups and Downs of Insurance Like other cyclical businesses, the insurance industry experiences boom times and busts. By understanding how insurance companies earn profits, you can predict premium increases and be prepared to deal with the consequences of higher rates on your personal finances.
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BusinessWeek May 14, 2007 Coy & Aston	Hurricane Ahead, But Lower Insurance Why the price of property coverage is going down in the face of dire predictions.
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The Motley Fool December 18, 2006 Brian Lawler	Nice: No Hurricanes Thankfully, we experienced nice weather in 2006. After the unprecedented losses incurred in 2005, almost anything would have been better for insurers this year. Investors, take note.
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Insurance & Technology November 25, 2003 Johannah Rodgers	GE Commercial Leaps A Technology Generation Insurer moves from legacy architecture to an Internet-based product to improve service, business processes.
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Insurance & Technology January 17, 2006 Maria Woehr	Constant Change The coming year's regulatory and political agenda could result in requirements for reform and increasing technology investments, which could alter the business environment for property and casualty, life, and health insurers alike.
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