For decades, technologically sophisticated agents have been begging insurers to provide real-time capability for handling transactions between agent and carrier. Now that some insurers have been offer

Having covered this industry these past 10 years, one fact has become abundantly clear to me: Insurance companies are scared to death of technology vendors. In truth, they don't seem to like or trust

Insurer information technology budgets in 2008 will be focused on getting new business in the door, servicing it efficiently and creating a more modern infrastructure, one leading consulting firm

o DRC earlier this year announced the introduction and general availability of "DecisionMaker Assistant" (DM Assistant), the latest addition to DRC's DecisionMaker solution suite, which enables

Perhaps no portion of the insurance enterprise today receives as much attention as policy administration. By some estimates, there are as many as 40 policy administration software vendors in the insur

For decades, technologically sophisticated agencies have literally been begging insurers to provide real-time capability for handling transactions between agent and carrier. Now that some insurers

On the surface, such a move makes sense, in terms of better interaction with the Web and Web applications, as well as cutting down the number of data "silos" that make dealing with the huge amounts

Since the much ballyhooed debut of Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system at the beginning of this year, both trade and consumer media outlets have tested and reviewed just about every aspect