Celent's Model Insurer awards have become a standard for recognizing excellence in technology best practice at insurers globally. Insurance in Asia faces its own set of business challenges and insurance technology has evolved along a distinctive--and sometimes more advanced--path. For these reasons, Celent is conducting an Asia specific program to identify the potentially unique "model insurer" components that have recently been deployed in the Asia-Pacific region: Celent Model Insurer Asia. Celent is pleased to announce that it is now accepting submissions for Model Insurer Asia 2012. This report is designed to illustrate best practice use of IT in the Asian insurance industry. Celent will highlight examples from individual Asian insurers in short case studies, and cite them as “Celent Model Insurer Components.” In addition to having their best practice case study publicized in the media, each featured insurer will receive an award at a formal awards ceremony later in the year. We anticipate featuring initiatives from 20-25 insurers in case studies of 100-300 words. We would like to invite insurance companies in the Asia Pacific region to submit a nomination. Our online nomination form is at here We also welcome technology vendors completing the nomination on behalf of insurance company, but please make sure that the insurance company know you are nominating them. We will contact insurance company directly to review the nomination and draft their Model Insurer Asia case study. The deadline of nomination is July 31, 2011. If you would like to learn more about the Model Insurer Asia initiative please refer to the Model Insurer Asia 2011 report. Please contact me for any question.