2024/09/10
About the Showcase Gen AI is the hottest topic in the industry right now. Insurers are reaching out daily with questions and the need for advice…
Research related to Zahara
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2024/05/15About the Showcase Gen AI is the hottest topic in the industry right now.Insurers are reaching out daily with questions and the need for advice…
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2023/11/23What is a life policy administration system? What life insurers use them for? What do they think of their components, features and functions? Do…
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2023/09/12Without a doubt, the pandemic spurred digital investment and CIOs started spending money on updating old technologies. Celent’s ongoing conversa…
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2023/08/08Using data from Celent's biennial North American policy administration solution (PAS) review, Celent drills down on the customer feedback to giv…
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2023/07/06Insurers have various approaches to acquire core business functions and capabilities. One approach is to look at relevant policy administration…
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2023/07/05This report is the fourth in Celent’s biennial look at group and voluntary policy administration systems (PAS) available to life insurers in Nor…
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2023/07/04In this ninth installment of Celent's biennial look at policy administration systems (PAS) available to life insurers in North America, we profi…
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2023/07/02Insurers have various approaches to acquire core business functions and capabilities. One approach is to look at relevant policy administration…
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2023/07/02Insurers have various approaches to acquire core business functions and capabilities. One approach is to look at relevant policy administration…
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2023/06/04Insurers have been modernizing their legacy systems, increasing their presence in cloud, and finding innovative use cases driven by emerging tec…
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2023/03/08Are emerging technologies providing cost-effective options to manage closed block policies? In the L&A insurance segment, millions of policies t…
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2022/09/28This research will provide an overview of the insurance market and technology trends in Australia and New Zealand. We will provide examples of i…
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2022/08/05What is Takaful Insurance? Takaful, often referred to as 'Islamic insurance', is a way for businesses to mitigate the financial risk of unforese…
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2022/03/18The global pandemic forced many insurers to accelerate the digitalization of their businesses. This came with a record number of policy administ…
Research related to Zinnia Distribution Solutions (ZDS)
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2024/03/27Life insurers were forced to digitize the sales process during the pandemic. Their move to direct-to-consumer sales (D2C) saw its peak (7+% of t…
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2023/09/11For the first several years of the insurtech movement, the conventional wisdom from the tech-industry founders looking to disrupt insurance was…
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2021/09/29Shifting customer expectations are creating a new need for new business models. As the current workforce ages, insurers are exploring new distri…
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2021/07/12In 2018 ING embarked on a multiyear program to reimagine application development and drive change within an agile, at-scale transformation frame…
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2021/06/30Over the past two weeks, I moderated and presented at the 2021 InsureTech Connect Asia and Finovate Asia conferences. The hive of activities has…
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2020/09/17Providing the right cover in a timely manner to customers is an increasing challenge both for underwriters and brokers. Mphasis shared some of t…
Research related to The Policy Processor (TPP)
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2025/02/06I recently read an article on mortality slippage as a result of automated underwriting (AUW). Mortality slippage—when carriers unintentionally a…
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2025/01/06Celent’s biennial North America Life Insurance New Business and Underwriting (NBUW) System research includes an online customer feedback survey.…
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2024/11/20As insurers competed for business during the pandemic, they looked for ways to simplify their application process and offer more products with e…
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2024/11/20The pandemic forced life insurers to rethink their process and products, all while managing their mortality, financial, and operations risk. The…
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2024/11/20Life insurers are working in a post-pandemic world. Many, if not most, insurers made major investments in reaction to COVID-19. Celent saw signi…
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2024/04/25Throughout history, insurance has provided protection to countless individuals and businesses. However, alongside the insurance industry, insura…
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2024/03/21Taiwan Life Insurance’s AI Platform for Claims provides multiple convenient claims delivery channels that address the many issues Taiwanese poli…
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2023/06/04
Insurers have been modernizing their legacy systems, increasing their presence in cloud, and finding innovative use cases driven by emerging tec…
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2023/04/05After writing our biannual report on new business and underwritiing systems ( New Business and Underwriting Systems: North America Life Insuranc…
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2023/03/21Celent recently published a review of the underwriting systems marketed and sold to North American life insurers: New Business and Underwriting…
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2023/03/08
Are emerging technologies providing cost-effective options to manage closed block policies? In the L&A insurance segment, millions of policies t…
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2022/12/12Have you wondered what changes were implemented for underwriting during the pandemic and how life insurance underwriting changed over the past t…
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2022/11/30COVID-19 and the underlying macroeconomic environment forced life insurers to deeply examine their product offerings and business processes beca…
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2022/11/29Since the onset of COVID-19, the life insurance industry had to make some dramatic changes. The pandemic forced life insurers to digitize rapidl…
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2022/09/13Life Insurance Underwriting - Is It Changing Fast Enough? Every two years we do a deep dive into life insurance underwriting systems. We look at…
Research related to Zinnia Illustrations
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2023/11/03.At the start of any life insurance sales cycle for a non-traditional product comes an illustration. An insurer has many choices in vendors and…
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2023/11/02At the start of any life insurance sales cycle for a non-traditional product comes an illustration. An insurer has many choices in vendors and w…
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2023/06/04
Insurers have been modernizing their legacy systems, increasing their presence in cloud, and finding innovative use cases driven by emerging tec…
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2022/09/28
This research will provide an overview of the insurance market and technology trends in Australia and New Zealand. We will provide examples of i…
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2020/12/092020 has not been an ordinary year for life insurance companies. Celent expects insurers will move many digitally sales oriented investments to…
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2020/11/302020 has not been an ordinary year for life insurance companies. Celent expects insurers will move many digitally sales oriented investments to…
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2020/10/02Healthcare is more important than ever, and digital health solutions are enabling personalized health assessment and overall care. Digital healt…
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2020/03/24The current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has put the global environment into trying times and it signify opportunities to extend current…
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2019/03/18System decisions are complicated. In this report, targeted at both the buyer and the seller, Celent discusses how to manage the process of comin…
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2018/10/29A focus on the insurance ecosystem, the role of digital, innovation, and InsurTech. I had the great pleasure of attending DIA Munich 2018 . As a…
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2016/09/23
Celent has published a new report titled Views of the Past and Future: Trends and Predictions for North American Illustration Systems.The report…
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2016/08/25
Celent has released a report that reviews the global life insurance illustration solution spectrum titled Predicting the Future: 2016 EMEA, APAC…
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2016/08/24
Celent has released a report that reviews the North American life insurance illustration solution spectrum titled Predicting the Future, 2016 No…
Research related to Zinnia Third Party Administration
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2024/09/26In recent years, the P&C insurance industry has witnessed a significant transformation driven by technological advancements. As insurers strive…
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2024/06/10Third Party Administration (TPA) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) offers insurers a way to reduce costs, address operational issues, and c…
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2024/06/10Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Third Party Administration (TPA) services offer insurers a way to reduce costs, address operational issue…
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2024/04/30Since 2011, Celent has been analyzing and evaluating BPO vendors. The 16 global vendors iprofiled in this report business process outsourcing (B…
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2024/04/30Since 2011, Celent has been analyzing and evaluating BPO vendors. The 19 global vendors profiled in this report offer business process outsourci…
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2023/03/08
Are emerging technologies providing cost-effective options to manage closed block policies? In the L&A insurance segment, millions of policies t…
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2021/09/08"Conversions are very risky, painful and are never on-time!"— is this old saying still true for insurance system conversions? Apparently, there…
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2021/08/17The market for IT services continues to grow as providers rebound in the wake of the pandemic. On one end, commoditization of technology infrast…
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2021/05/14The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially hard on P&C insurers. Along with a large number of natural disasters and severe weather events which c…
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2021/04/30COVID-19 presented the global life insurance industry with challenges that have turned into opportunities. New societal realities and customer n…
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2021/04/04The IT services market is dynamic, and vendors active in this market help insurers capture the value of relevant technologies to enhance their d…
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2021/04/03The IT services market is dynamic, and vendors active in this market help insurers capture the value of relevant technologies to enhance their d…
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2021/03/31Insurance BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) sector has seen significant growth in the past owing to increasing customer demands and operational…
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2021/03/31Insurance BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) sector has seen significant growth in the past owing to increasing customer demands and operational…
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2021/03/10This Model Bank report uncovers how Discover Financial Services quickly adjusted to the challenges the pandemic created by enabling its agents t…
Research related to WinFlex
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2023/11/03
.At the start of any life insurance sales cycle for a non-traditional product comes an illustration. An insurer has many choices in vendors and…
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2023/11/02
At the start of any life insurance sales cycle for a non-traditional product comes an illustration. An insurer has many choices in vendors and w…
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2023/06/04
Insurers have been modernizing their legacy systems, increasing their presence in cloud, and finding innovative use cases driven by emerging tec…
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2022/09/28
This research will provide an overview of the insurance market and technology trends in Australia and New Zealand. We will provide examples of i…
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2020/12/09
2020 has not been an ordinary year for life insurance companies. Celent expects insurers will move many digitally sales oriented investments to…
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2020/11/30
2020 has not been an ordinary year for life insurance companies. Celent expects insurers will move many digitally sales oriented investments to…
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2020/10/02
Healthcare is more important than ever, and digital health solutions are enabling personalized health assessment and overall care. Digital healt…
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2020/03/24
The current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has put the global environment into trying times and it signify opportunities to extend current…
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2019/03/18
System decisions are complicated. In this report, targeted at both the buyer and the seller, Celent discusses how to manage the process of comin…
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2018/10/29
A focus on the insurance ecosystem, the role of digital, innovation, and InsurTech. I had the great pleasure of attending DIA Munich 2018 . As a…
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2016/09/23
Celent has published a new report titled Views of the Past and Future: Trends and Predictions for North American Illustration Systems.The report…
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2016/08/25
Celent has released a report that reviews the global life insurance illustration solution spectrum titled Predicting the Future: 2016 EMEA, APAC…
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2016/08/24
Celent has released a report that reviews the North American life insurance illustration solution spectrum titled Predicting the Future, 2016 No…
Research related to SmartOffice
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2024/11/18The influence of a customer relationship management (CRM) solution on financial institutions (FIs) is profound and multifaceted. By centralizing…
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2023/11/19Last week the Celent corporate banking team published its annual Technology Trends Previsory: Corporate Banking 2024 Edition which can be downl…
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2023/09/27It would be a stretch to say that Sibos news and chatter was dominated by generative AI (or Gen AI). After all, for banks at least, we are still…
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2023/08/21The current banking crisis in 2023 has so far focused on large regional and national banks that have had liquidity issues leading to a bank run…
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2023/04/19Celent has released a new report specifically for digital banking channel owners that covers specialized fintech, rising competition from non-ba…
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2022/11/11Over three weeks in September 2022, Celent Banking team ran an online survey where we invited our contacts in the industry – clients and non-cli…
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2022/10/31Faced with historically high inflation and energy bills, increasing interest rates, and continued geopolitical and economic uncertainty, consume…
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2022/09/30Experiencing product value before purchase drives growth—Product-Led Growth:PLG •This is a primer for those who are not so familiar with Product…
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2022/06/30A customer management (CM) strategy is a critical component of making the customer experience a seamless and engaging event for any insurer. Cus…
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2022/05/11Snap polls reflect questions posed by members of the Celent Executive Panel, a group of C level executives in the insurance industry. This quest…
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2022/03/29Last week, my colleague Kieran Hines and I attended FinovateEurope 2022, which was back in London as an in-person event again, and it was such a…
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2022/03/15The imperative for financial institutions (FIs) to undergo digital transformation has only increased during the past two years. Many FIs are in…
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2022/03/14Tower is a specialised personal and commercial lines insurer in New Zealand with approximately 304,000 customers across New Zealand and the Paci…
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2021/12/06The marketing statements of financial institutions have for years touted“customer-first”, “customer 360”; and “omnichannel communications” to de…
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2021/11/08Snap polls reflect questions posed by members of the Celent Executive Research Panel, a group of C level executives in the insurance industry. T…
Research related to Producer Support System (PSS)
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2024/07/08Use of distribution management systems is increasing due to a variety of changes happening in the market. The increase in insurance agency merge…
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2024/07/08Use of distribution management systems is increasing due to a variety of changes happening in the market. The increase in insurance agency merge…
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2024/07/08Out of necessity, insurers are becoming much more sophisticated in how they think about distribution management. While the primary channel for b…
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2024/05/15About the Showcase Gen AI is the hottest topic in the industry right now. Insurers are reaching out daily with questions and the need for advice…
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2024/03/27
Life insurers were forced to digitize the sales process during the pandemic. Their move to direct-to-consumer sales (D2C) saw its peak (7+% of t…
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2023/09/11
For the first several years of the insurtech movement, the conventional wisdom from the tech-industry founders looking to disrupt insurance was…
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2022/10/24Celent conducted a survey of producers with a set of questions covering management issues related to the use of technology, digital transformati…
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2022/08/10Distribution management systems are increasing in use due to a variety of changes happening in the market. The increase in insurance agency merg…
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2022/08/10Distribution management systems are increasing in use due to a variety of changes happening in the market. The increase in insurance agency merg…
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2021/09/29
Shifting customer expectations are creating a new need for new business models. As the current workforce ages, insurers are exploring new distri…
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2021/07/19Insurers that use independent agents know that high production is correlated with strong relationships. But the world of the independent agent i…
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2021/07/12
In 2018 ING embarked on a multiyear program to reimagine application development and drive change within an agile, at-scale transformation frame…
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2021/06/30
Over the past two weeks, I moderated and presented at the 2021 InsureTech Connect Asia and Finovate Asia conferences. The hive of activities has…
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2020/09/17
Providing the right cover in a timely manner to customers is an increasing challenge both for underwriters and brokers. Mphasis shared some of t…
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2020/07/26Managing agent licensing is a business-critical function for insurers and agencies. But as insurers and agencies look to grow, they face increas…