Insurance Networking News: Executive Strategies for Technology Management

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Articles in January, 2007 issue of Insurance Networking News: Executive Strategies for Technology Management

• Why An Innovation Award?: Insurance Networking News establishes the INNovators of the Year award to advance the spread of knowledge in the insurance industry.
• Alliances.(Exstream Software Inc. entered co-marketing partnership with Fiserv Inc., Docucorp International agreement with Skywire Software)
• News Briefs.(Empire Life Insurance Company enhances its universal life insurance product, survey results of online insurance customers, Aetna Inc. launches an interactive voice response system)
• Pinpoints Profits: New Software Smoothes Road to Compensation.(technology application of insurance industry, trends)
  by McKinley, Ed
• Clients Flee Bad Sites.(insurance company websites, survey among user groups)
• Solutions.(Software AG, InsFocus Systems Ltd., TraceSecurity launch software solutions)
• News Briefs.(email management of organizations, end user problems, insurance claims management trends)(Report)(Brief article)
• Finding the Cat's Eye.(technology application, vendor relations of insurance industry, ranking of insurance technology providers)
  by Speer, Pat
• Who's Doing What in European BPO.(business process outsourcing)(Brief article)
• Solutions.(Whitehill Technologies Inc., Catcher Inc. and Witness Systems Inc. launches new software solutions for insurance industry)
• Solutions.(Oleansoft, Insightix and Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. launches software solutions)
• The Age of E-Discovery: It's a whole new era as the Feds create rules for handling electronic documents during litigation. Now, every case is an e-discovery case.(Jon Neiditz of Bissell & Brook)(Interview)
• Who's Buying What: Recent deals for technology software and services.(Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co. partnered with ChoicePoint Inc., Meadowbrook Insurance Group Inc. with Adeptia Inc., World Life and Health Insurance Company of Pennsylvania partnered
• In Early Stages: Annuities Business Becoming Paperless.(Pacific Life Insurance Co. automates annuities business )
  by Joelson, Daniel
• Billing - The Next Big Wave: Don't think of billing as just another back-office 'chore.' See bills as one more reason to catch a wave and contact customers.
  by Sankalia, Nimish
• Making the Marriage Work: The stakes are high for insurers of all sizes as they forge successful long-term agreements with their technology providers.
  by Speer, Pat
• CEOs See The Light: Global IT Budgets Get Some Respect.
  by Burns, Carrie
• Solutions.(Metropolitan Reporting Bureau partnered with Guidewire Software Inc., Docubase Systems Inc. launches Docubase Information Suite, Infogix develops Infogix EM)
• Ad Index For January 2007.
• News Briefs.(study on trends of adoption of software as a service by insurance industry, Guy Carpenter & Company Ltd. automates claims settlement, Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. partners with LCG LewisCo Group)(Report)
• European Insurers See BPO as Vital: Despite myriad challenges for insurers and service providers, BPO in Europe is on the rise.
  by Speer, Pat