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Blog Insurance Technology

Think Big. Start Small. Incremental Modernization for Insurance.

Increased competition and customer expectations are pushing insurers to accelerate their modernization efforts. Traditionally, a platform or system modernization is one large initiative executed over ...

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Blog Insurance Technology

A First-Timer’s Perspective on ITC Vegas 2023

ITC Vegas is one of the largest conferences in the insurance industry, boasting over 9,000 attendees and 500+ sponsors. As a young marketing professional who had never traveled for business before, at...

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Blog Careers Technology

Letter of Advice to All Future Dev Interns

When I accepted my role at X by 2 as an Intern Consultant, I was both excited and terrified. This would be my first experience working at a software consultancy, or a tech company of any kind. I was e...

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Insurance Technology

Digital Transformation and the Digital Divide in Insurance

The term “digital divide” was coined in the mid-1990’s by consumer groups who were concerned that the growth and spread of the Internet would lead to those who had access to the Internet, and those wh...

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Data Architecture Insurance Technology

Effectively Optimizing Data In Insurance

Insurance has always been a data-driven business, from ancient waybills recorded on papyrus under the Code of Hammurabi, to the charters of the first property insurers after the Great Fire of London. ...

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Insurance Technology

Digital Life Insurance for a Digital World

For any life insurer, future success means resonating with demographically diverse generations of new consumers where they live—and that’s increasingly in a digital world. For those fans of the early ...

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Blog Cloud Healthcare Insurance Technology

Understanding the Cloud: Cost, Security and Management

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...

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Architecture Technology

Single Page Application Architecture

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...

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Architecture Technology

Road to Success Paved with Business-Driven Architecture

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...

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Technology

Microservices Are the Key to Flexible Architecture & Development

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...

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Insurance Technology

Enterprise Architecture: Strategic Approach

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...

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Insurance Technology

Using Open Source for Better DevOps Outcomes

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...