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- Business & Technology Priorities for P&C Insurers
A recent Gartner survey of insurance customers found that policy administration continues to be the top priority among P&C insurers. The Internet, pricing accuracy and rating, and architecture are also top priorities in the coming year. Listen and learn more. - Healthcare Payers: A Road Map to Service Excellence
Healthcare payers must grasp the impact of pervasive consumerism on their operations, and champion essential changes necessary to anticipate and address increased consumer involvement in every key healthcare decision. Listen and learn why. - Life Insurance Sales Force Automation Requirements
Life insurance sales organizations seek greater efficiency and effectiveness through the use of sales force automation systems, but success depends on life insurers carefully matching fragmented market supplier capabilities with their business requirements. Learn why. - The Changing Face of Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise architecture (EA) is a constantly-evolving discipline that is intended to broadly influence and support investment decisions and organizational change. But your EA program must be properly resourced and well-run to achieve its promised benefits. Listen and learn more. - Application Integration: A Key SOA Enabler
As organizations strive to build loosely coupled systems based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles, data redundancy, quality and consistency issues are exacerbated and become significant barriers to successful integration efforts. Listen and learn more. - SOA Tips and Traps
Simply being aware of some common tips and traps may help your IT organization avoid several mistakes in developing a successful service-oriented architecture (SOA) program. Listen and learn why. - Multichannel Integration in Insurance
Property and casualty, as well as life, insurers will face multiple risks if they don't integrate channels. To avoid these risks, insurers must invest in processes and technologies to support cross-channel sales and service transactions, and establish integrated, intelligent channel architectures. Listen and learn more. - PLANT SEEDS: A Web 2.0 Framework
Web 2.0 practices and technologies can deliver transformational benefits to the enterprise but success depends on effective community cultivation. The PLANT SEEDS framework identifies critical design considerations for enhancing Enterprise Web 2.0 adoption. Listen and learn more. - Enterprise Mashups
Mashups - Web technology-based lightweight composite applications created by sourcing capabilities from established content and systems functionality - are moving into the enterprise and are poised to enable end-user-assembled applications. Listen and learn more. - The Implications of Oracle Acquiring BEA
Oracle's offer to buy BEA Systems will create short-term uncertainty. If the deal proceeds, Oracle will strengthen its position and emerge as the most powerful competitor to IBM, the current middleware market leader. Listen and learn more. - The Future of BI for Health Insurers
Uncoordinated business intelligence (BI) tools and poor data quality continue to hamstring healthcare insurers by limiting decision-making agility. This often leads to significant business and customer risk. Listen and learn why. - The Rise of the Millennials
Media fragmentation is frequently cited as a top concern for advertisers. This has made Millennials - consumers coming of age in and around the first decade of the 21st century - a highly prized target for advertisers. Listen and learn more. - Retain Customers through Better Claims Mgmt.
Consumers increasingly require personal lines property and casualty insurers to think and act small, treating them as if they're individuals and not just part of the mass market. Consumers want a claims process that's much faster, more intuitive and more convenient. Listen and learn more. - Simplifying Insurance
As the insurance industry evolves, insurers are trying to make technology decisions that will better position them in the future market. Although there is no magic solution, simplifying business processes and being easy to do business with will be key to achieving insurance success. Listen and learn more. - Effective Disaster Recovery Strategies
Knowing how you're performing in disaster recovery (DR) management will help you determine which investments to make to improve your organization and move on to the next level of disaster recovery management maturity. Listen and learn more. - New Demands on IT
IT is no longer a separate and distinct business activity. New areas of focus are evolving that are centered on business processes and information, as well as relationships with peers, partners and customers. Listen and learn more. - The Growing Trend Toward Virtualization
Many enterprises are moving toward virtualized environments and, under the right circumstances, virtualization can offer alternatives that can improve the flexibility, efficiency and accuracy of application delivery. Listen and learn more. - Evaluating the Apple iPhone
iPhone's arrival on store shelves culminates months of hype and speculation. To capitalize on the buzz, Apple and AT&T must evolve products and services rapidly and create unique value for consumers and media companies. Listen as Gartner analysts Allen Weiner and Michael McGuire take an in-depth look at the iPhone and its impact on the media industry. - The Changing World of the Media Titans
Digital distribution and an ever-powerful set of technologies, enabling great consumer control over media access and manipulation, will continue to set the stage for a new order of media titans. Listen and learn more. - The Future of Property & Casualty Underwriting
Property and casualty (P&C) insurers are facing critical technology investment decisions that may affect their ability to compete, differentiate themselves and enhance customer service in the future. Listen and learn more. - A Conversation with Michael Oxley
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 - commonly known as SOX - has forever changed the face of regulatory compliance. Listen as Michael Oxley - former U.S. Congressman, co-author of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Vice Chairman of the NASDAQ - elaborates on his career. - Getting Customer-Centric with CRM
Despite ongoing consolidation among major customer relationship management (CRM) vendors, product-centric strategies are taking a back seat to customer-centric strategies. Listen and learn more. - Manufacturing Innovation: The Customer Connection
IT plays a critical role in effectively managing the complexities of manufacturing. Listen as Gartner analysts Bruce Bond and Dale Hagemeyer discuss why innovation may be the key to success. - Are Banks Banking Too Much on Digital Immigrants?
A recent survey of more than 1,000 business executives reveals "bullish" attitudes and changing expectations toward the use of IT in business. Listen as Gartner analysts Bruce Bond, David Furlonger and Vincent Oliva discuss why banks may be banking too much on
