Roughly 20% of your data “pea pods” will contain peas that cause all sorts of migration problems. A good migration utility, however, can quickly make those peas sweet and help the whole data transition go down smoothly and efficiently.
IT Governance
Avoid The CIO Blame Game: 4 Keys to Controlling Large-Scale Initiatives
If you’re going through a large scale project, you won’t know everything that the project manager knows – even though your neck is on the line. Large-scale projects require a different level of management than day to day operations.
5 Best Practices for Successful Technology Deployment
Failed technology initiatives are legendary in the insurance industry, but embracing deployment best practices will ensure successful initiatives in the face of limited resources and the rapidly changing technology and regulatory landscapes.
Oceanwide’s Provider Assessment Tool Addresses Insurers’ Fears About the Cloud
Using multiple-choice questions organized into a set of standard security domains, Oceanwide’s CPAM tool provides a quick, easy way to assess risks associated with cloud providers and their solutions,
CIO Survivors: Insurance IT Leaders Who Have Endured, and Why That Matters
Depending on the circumstances, a short CIO stint may be the best option for both the carrier and the executive in question. However, as we explore in this first issue of Insurance Innovation Reporter, there are significant advantages to CIO longevity and major disadvantages to short CIO tenure.
CIO Survivors: Partner in Growth – Gary Scholten, Principal Financial Group
During his 33-year career at Principal Financial Group, Gary Scholten’s personal professional growth has paralleled the company’s evolution into a global financial services provider.
LUBA and AEGIS Upgrade to StoneRiver CompSuite
Long-term StoneRiver clients are two of 10 to upgrade from the vendor’s WCMS offering to CompSuite this year.
Booz Allen’s Top 7 Financial Services Cyber Security Trends for 2014
Senior executives and boards of directors of financial services companies are far likely to include information security and cyber attacks among their priorities today. Booz Allen recommends that they take note of seven cyber security trends that that could affect their businesses during 2014.
6 Insurance Innovation Imperatives, Part V: Apply 5 Key Steps to the Execution of Innovative Ideas
Technology officers must create a management framework and build upon it the necessary expertise to manage progressive solutions that have disruptive potential. Here are five vital steps.
6 Tenets of TCO for Core System Modernization
All too often insurers enter a transformation project with a set of established goals in mind but fail to think about the long term costs associated with these projects such as data conversion, maintaining legacy systems prior to sun-setting and core upgrades.