Posts Tagged ‘Emerging Technologies’

By Don Canning, Microsoft Product life cycle management has been a strategic business method used in manufacturing since the industrial revolution. This historic technique is now being applied in the insurance industry in the form of product design and development. Analysts contend this emerging technology trend will continue to offer the insurance industry a new more accurate way of bench testing new product designs saving both ... Full story

Call it search engine insurance. Since every personal and corporate decision is now preceded by multiple fact-finding queries on search engines, it's now time to get protection - preventative and remedial - for the Internet. If you don't control your search engine results, you're letting fate or someone else decide what people will see first about you and your enterprise. Warren Buffett says it takes ... Full story

Software that connects agents with P&C carriers while providing excellent customer service and transparency via straight-through processing will be the new standard deployment over the next five years. Most carriers are struggling with just a couple of service areas, and now must attune to six emerging trends or "ground swells" in commercial lines IT, shaping P&C business models. Whether you work in a P&C company, ... Full story

With U.S. e-commerce retail sales ballooning to over $54 billion in 2006, overall e-commerce sales including B2B extending beyond a staggering $1 trillion, and over 200 million Internet users, enterprises face a mammoth problem. How to secure the applications that are behind these Web sites? At large enterprises, the kind to which we entrust our most confidential information, Information Technology group may not even ... Full story

Financial institutions have recently recognized the opportunity in desktop real estate to capture the attention of the underserved small and mid-sized business (SMB) market and provide commerce services. To succeed in this often elusive market, FIs will have to address the real needs of the SMBs – like cash management tools and financial services, and make them easy to access and use. The Small Business ... Full story

It’s getting harder and harder to gain users’ trust embracing the latest buzz surrounding Web 2.0 and online transition processing when fears of identity theft due to phishing and spoofing are on the rise. Out-of-band security and validation dramatically decreases online fraud by ensuring the rightful user is controlling the credentials used to access payment type services. This closed loop process validates that users are ... Full story