2022/10/24
Celent 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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2021/09/29Shifting 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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2021/07/19Insurers 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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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…
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2020/01/20At the start of the new decade, there is a noticeable observation in how business models are evolving to satisfy the latest generation of workin…
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2019/09/10Managing the variety and innovation in a global distribution environment increasingly requires 'digital tools' and capabilities that allow insur…
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2019/05/14Managing the variety and dynamism in a distribution environment that is increasingly digital requires tools that allow insurers to deal with a v…
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2018/10/18The new era of customer-centricity in insurance applies to agents just as much as it applies to policyholders. Many insurers are focusing their…
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2016/08/17
Celent has released a new report titled Onboarding in Corporate Transaction Banking: Prioritizing Investments for Reducing Friction. The report…
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2023/03/19This report in the Health Policy Administration series focuses on the perceptions of the insurers in their vendors. In the lead report, Celent s…
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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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2022/12/21Health insurers are no longer simply paying medical bills and underwriting health. They are also supporting customers in various times of their…
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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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2022/07/13Some loyal readers may be surprised by my authorship of a blog post. I suppose this my reintroduction to Celent. Prior to mid-2020, I led the Am…
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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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2021/06/07In June 2020, Celent published its second global health policy administration system vendor report. In the framework of this report, we asked he…
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2021/05/17Health insurance is undergoing big changes where technology has a significant impact. Health insurers are increasingly looking at ways to improv…
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2021/03/03Insurers are choosing other approaches to technology modernization than just going with the traditional industrial approach where you build a ne…
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2020/12/18The increasing importance of APIs in financial services has moved the middle layer to a customer facing role. Historically such layers were hidd…
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2020/12/02The usage of legacy data sources combined with new alternative data sources are transforming underwriting, policy application approval, and issu…
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2020/08/29Conversations in innovation strategy deployments has seen plug-and-play and APIs as the common solution for shipping and serving modular contain…
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2020/08/24As we come to grips with the events at the turn of a new decade, there is never a better opportunity to re-imagine current business processes an…
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2020/07/05Natural language processing (NLP) is the technique to provide semantics to information extracted from optical character recognition engines and…
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2023/10/03Recorded on September 28, 2023. Watch this webinar to gain insights into how rating engines underpin insurance underwriting as we explore their…
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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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2023/04/18Stand-alone rating engines are used for a variety of reasons—but primarily to externalize the rates, rules, and logic associated with rating fro…
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2023/04/18Stand-alone rating engines are used for a variety of reasons—but primarily to externalize the rates, rules, and logic associated with rating fro…
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2023/03/29The development and execution of a business data strategy is crucial to an insurer’s goal of innovation. The appropriate strategy, with curated…
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2021/09/22Significant innovation is occurring in product management in the insurance industry. Carriers are looking to grow, differentiate themselves, nav…
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2021/09/12
Significant innovation is occurring in product management in the North American region. Carriers are looking to grow, differentiate themselves,…
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2021/05/27Customers and the industries we serve are always at the heart of the insurance business. For the most part increased digitisation and innovation…
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2019/09/22Stand-alone rating engines are used for a variety of reasons — but primarily to externalize the rates, rules, and logic associated with rating f…
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2019/07/18Stand-alone rating engines are used for a variety of reasons — but primarily to externalize the rates, rules, and logic associated with rating f…
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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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2018/10/22With the fight for new customers growing more and more competitive, carriers continue to look for new ways of differentiation through their prod…
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2018/07/09In January this year I posted a blog, If 2017 Was the Year of Insurtech, Will 2018 be the Year of the Insurance Platform? The blog pointed out t…
Research related to BPO Service
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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…
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2021/01/22The pressure on the buy side is intense . On the journey to managing operational and regulatory demands in a cost-effective way, investment mana…
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2020/12/08The world had a tough 2020 but, unlike the 2008 financial markets crisis, this time capital markets emerged as the hero as governments worldwide…
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2020/11/20Insurance companies today face both internal and external challenges that hinder them from becoming more competitive and meeting business goals.…
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2020/11/11Insurance companies today face both internal and external challenges that hinder them from becoming more competitive and meeting business goals.…
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2020/08/17The mortgage lending industry is in turmoil for the second time in only a decade as the coronavirus has increased loan delinquencies and affecte…
Research related to msg.Claims
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2024/03/20Welcome to a future where the claims journey is as seamless as it is empowering. Markerstudy Insurance Services Limited embarked on a transforma…
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2024/03/08This week, we at Celent released new and updated P&C claims systems vendor reports for four regions: North America EMEA Latin America Asia-Pac…
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2024/03/07Claims, often referred to as the "moment of truth," represent the fulfillment of an insurance policy's promise to indemnify and make customers w…
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2024/03/06Claims, often referred to as the "moment of truth," represent the fulfillment of an insurance policy's promise to indemnify and make customers w…
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2024/03/06Claims, often referred to as the "moment of truth," represent the fulfillment of an insurance policy's promise to indemnify and make customers w…
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2024/03/06Claims, often referred to as the "moment of truth," represent the fulfillment of an insurance policy's promise to indemnify and make customers w…
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2024/03/05Housing hunters are familiar with the axiom, "Size, location, price: Pick one." But for insurance system replacements, sights are usually set hi…
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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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2022/03/29Celent profiles 23 core claims systems that are in use or being marketed for use in North America There are sixteen systems that qualified for C…
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2022/02/11The burgeoning Insurtech space is vast and rapidly evolving. It is difficult for even the savviest of industry insiders to keep up with today’s…
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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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2021/04/20This report is part of a series on claims systems in North America, Latin America, EMEA, and the Asia-Pacific. It profiles the majority of the p…
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2021/03/10Every company that embarks on a transformation initiative has its own set of challenges to overcome. For the AA, the list was long but not too d…
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2020/12/02This Solution Brief discusses one solution which delivers this new vision for claims teams, seeks to leverage the configurability of the low cod…
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2020/07/19Claims systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated as insurers look to optimize their processes and improve the customer experience. This re…
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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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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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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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2022/09/28
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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2022/09/25A digital point-of-sale (“POS”) platform offers consumers the ability to buy life insurance online instantly. These cloud-based platforms are ma…
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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…
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2022/08/18In this report, we look at how data solutions play a role to provide support for actuary and underwriting functions in the insurance value chain…
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2022/05/31COVID-19 created lasting changes in the distribution of life insurance. The evolution of direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales was slow until the pande…
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2022/04/11As part of Celent's Innovation and Insight Week 2022, a roundtable was conducted for the data, analytics, and AI theme on the topic of 'Data Inn…
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2022/03/04Embedded finance is reshaping the way customers engage with financial products and expanding the distribution of tools and services that banks,…
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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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2023/04/05
After writing our biannual report on new business and underwritiing systems ( New Business and Underwriting Systems: North America Life Insuranc…
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2023/03/29When Joyn Insurance developed Spark, a digital workflow platform for commercial business, it transformed a largely manual process to enable unde…
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2023/03/21
Celent recently published a review of the underwriting systems marketed and sold to North American life insurers: New Business and Underwriting…
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2022/12/12
Have 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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2022/11/30
COVID-19 and the underlying macroeconomic environment forced life insurers to deeply examine their product offerings and business processes beca…
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2022/11/29
Since 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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2022/09/28
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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2022/09/13
Life Insurance Underwriting - Is It Changing Fast Enough? Every two years we do a deep dive into life insurance underwriting systems. We look at…
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2022/08/18
In this report, we look at how data solutions play a role to provide support for actuary and underwriting functions in the insurance value chain…
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2022/04/11
As part of Celent's Innovation and Insight Week 2022, a roundtable was conducted for the data, analytics, and AI theme on the topic of 'Data Inn…
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2022/03/17Amerisure, one of the nation's leading providers of commercial insurance, embarked on an underwriting transformation program in 2017 to support…
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2021/11/17
Not long ago insurers were resistant (or, at best hesitant) to move legacy data and applications to any place outside of the control of their ow…
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2021/10/21Best in Class Digital Insurance - A Celent Peer Networking Event Recap On Wednesday, October 20, Celent welcomed 20 life insurance leaders in vi…
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2021/08/08The world is witnessing a state of flux, with climate change threatening where we live, work, and play. Natural catastrophes and weather reliant…
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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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2024/03/20
Welcome to a future where the claims journey is as seamless as it is empowering. Markerstudy Insurance Services Limited embarked on a transforma…
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2024/03/08
This week, we at Celent released new and updated P&C claims systems vendor reports for four regions: North America EMEA Latin America Asia-Pac…
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2024/03/07
Claims, often referred to as the "moment of truth," represent the fulfillment of an insurance policy's promise to indemnify and make customers w…
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2024/03/06
Claims, often referred to as the "moment of truth," represent the fulfillment of an insurance policy's promise to indemnify and make customers w…
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2024/03/06
Claims, often referred to as the "moment of truth," represent the fulfillment of an insurance policy's promise to indemnify and make customers w…
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2024/03/06
Claims, often referred to as the "moment of truth," represent the fulfillment of an insurance policy's promise to indemnify and make customers w…
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2024/03/05
Housing hunters are familiar with the axiom, "Size, location, price: Pick one." But for insurance system replacements, sights are usually set hi…
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2023/12/11In July 2023, Celent published the LATAM life policy administration system vendor report. The data-gathering process provided some insight into…
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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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2023/11/03
.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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2023/09/28Recorded on September 27, 2023. Watch this webinar to learn about the evolving insurance billing systems landscape, its functionalities, and eme…
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2023/09/22Recorded on September 21, 2023. In this webinar, we look at what the market for these foundational systems offers today and where the market is…
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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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2023/12/11
In July 2023, Celent published the LATAM life policy administration system vendor report. The data-gathering process provided some insight into…
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2023/11/23
What 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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2023/09/12
Without 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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2023/06/04
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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2023/03/08
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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2022/09/28
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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2022/08/05
What 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…
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2022/03/09The last two years have seen life insurers move from complete uncertainty as to how to handle the change COVID thrust upon them to them making t…