From Architecture to Code: A Primer On How to Get it Right

It’s an old lament. While creating an enterprise or application architecture is great for a conceptual understanding of something, it would be even greater if that architecture could be used directly to move from the conceptual to the tangible.
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Open Source Versioning: The Race to Stay Up-to-Date

Open source libraries, once shunned as risky and not ready for prime time, are now used extensively across major corporations, including insurers.
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Use Software Accelerators to Fill That Elusive Twenty Percent

In the modern computer era of the last several decades, industries including auto, banking, and, of course, insurance have developed and re-developed their core processing systems many times over.
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The Blockchain Future: Part One

Many insurers may not be able to adopt blockchain in time to retain a competitive advantage, so it’s imperative that every company has a blockchain game plan—and the sooner, the better.
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How Insurers Can Really Embrace Big Data

For the insurance industry, Big Data should mean that the technologies and capabilities that are now part of the data and information ecosystem begin to become pervasive inside insurance companies.
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The Benefits of Actively Managing Technical Debt

Most insurers have a business technology ecosystem that has grown and advanced over years and decades.
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Why Worry About Business Architecture?

This article argues for the importance of effective business architecture in organizations as a way to, among other things, optimize processes and create standards that enable business technology success.
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How Healthcare Organizations Can ‘Pay Off’ Technical Debt

Most healthcare organizations have a business technology ecosystem that has grown and advanced over years and decades.
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Four Ways to Build Effective Agile Teams

A good way to approach this is to establish an Integrations Center of Excellence, staffed with integration specialists.
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How to Integrate Systems More Efficiently

Any large software program has tentacles that stretch across the entire insurance organization.
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