For the past year and a half, the X by 2 team has not only worked from home but excelled at home. Though the transition to remote work was an adjustment, we found that our team’s ability to collaborat...
Over a decade ago, the technology world was a bit different. Web forms were the standard, databases were relational, and clouds were aloft in the sky. Since then, the industry has adopted new patterns...
In just a few short years, information technology has gone from tactical, to strategic, to existential in nature. IT departments are well-accustomed to dealing with the pressure that comes with delive...
Efforts to rework existing data models come down to the very same question that is asked for reworking most existing systems: retrofit what exists or start over with a clean slate? It’s a non-trivial ...
The insurance industry has been transforming itself for several years now. Core systems modernization, Cloud and Mobility strategies, and investments in Insurtech startups are just a few of the ways i...
X by 2 was recently named as one of the 2020 Cool Places to Work in Michigan, as recognized by Crain’s Detroit Business and Best Companies Group. A multi-year winner, X by 2 also made the list in 2019...
The road to competitive advantage and market success in the healthcare and insurance industry has taken many twists and turns since the advent of the computerized age. From mainframes to client-server...
There’s a lot of hype swirling around the use of Microservice Architecture (MSA): how to define it exactly, and whether or not the microservices concept is the next big thing in architectural and deve...
The practice of Enterprise Architecture (EA) has taken a pounding over the past several years. It has been criticized as too rigid and structured to cohabitate with Agile, and too conceptual and theor...
Many insurers have jumped on the DevOps bandwagon in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their systems and systems implementations. Very few insurers, however, spend much time thinkin...
In the race to modernize, many insurers have found their progress slowed by the size, scale and scope of large transformation programs. From core systems to data warehouses, and from cloud platforms t...
The path forward is clear: embrace and implement architectures that reinforce Agile principals and create a much better foundation for a dynamic enterprise of the future. Part 1 of this series disc...
