Insurers Can Use Metadata Standards For Internal Data.

Insurance Networking News: Executive Strategies for Technology Management,  March, 2007  by McKinley, Ed

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The metadata standards that streamline company-to-company communication can do double duty as prototypes for internal data management within a single insurance carrier.

"If it has already been invented in the industry, why should we think that we're going to be able to invent our own that's better?" reasons Rich Maynard, an enterprise architect for The Hartford Financial Services Group, Hartford, Conn. He's one of many insurance executives who view industry metadata standards that way.

Metadata, or "data about data," works something like a dictionary that ...

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