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ACE Completes $2.56 Billion Acquisition of Combined Insurance From Aon
Insurer ACE Ltd. said it completed its $2.56 billion acquisition of Combined Insurance Co. of America and some of its subsidiaries from Aon Corp., a risk-management services provider.
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SCPIE Notifies New York Stock Exchange of Intent to Delist Common Stock
SCPIE Holdings Inc., a major provider of healthcare liability insurance, announced that it notified the NYSE Euronext of its intent to delist its common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, from the New York Stock Exchange immediately following the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated October 15, 2007, by and among The Doctors Company, Scalpel Acquisition Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent, and SCPIE.
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Treasury Proposal Lets Insurers Bypass State Rules
At an insurance conference last week, Allstate Corp.''s investor relations chief was giving a rundown of how many states sell certain products. Your Choice Home is in 15 states, and Your Choice Auto is in 48 states, Robert Block said.
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Pharmacists Mutual Expands Use of iPartners Performance Management Reporting Services Across the Enterprise
Pharmacists Mutual Companies finds iPartners’ Insurance Scorecard hosted reporting solution adds speed and coherence to the carrier’s performance intelligence efforts.
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Insight Wins the Game (Adobe Acrobat PDF File)
A hosted performance management system is helping senior insurance executives in smaller companies use “scorecards” to monitor their business.
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Tech decisions - Tech Edge Article
iPartners is offering its Insurance Scorecard product to provide property/casualty carriers with next-day access to policy and claims information, which will help managers make decisions affecting income and profitability.
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Start Your Engines (Adobe Acrobat PDF File)
You’ve driven the winding road to ERP. You’ve navigated
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SaaS in the Real World
Q&A with Jeff Kaplan, managing director of THINK strategies and SaaS Showplace
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Ten Reasons Why On-Demand Services Will Soar in 2008
Jeff Kaplan shares his top ten predictions why the shift from packaged products to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), utility computing and managed services will accelerate in 2008.
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BusinessWeek: Software-as-a-Service Myths
A consultant explains why this new breed of Web-based software has staying power.
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IT Futures and Tech Populism
At Forrester conference, the mix of in-house and hosted application shifts, while savvy users self-provision collaboration and productivity
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SaaS Overcoming Common Customer Concerns
Many industry pundits and incumbent software vendors (ISVs) predicted that Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) was just a passing fad and would fade away like its predecessor of the dot.com era, the application service provider (ASP).
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Novarica ACE Rankings Document
Each Ranking is Based on the Results of an Independent Customer Satisfaction Survey of At Least Five Insurers
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Informatica Further Expands OEM Partnerships Into Cloud Computing
Data Integration Recognized as Critical Enabler for Enterprises Both Within and Beyond the Firewall
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Gartner: SaaS to grow in 90% of organizations
Nine out of ten companies plan to grow their use of software-as-a-service (SaaS) in the next year, according to a survey by Gartner.
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SaaS Accelerates Despite Economy’s Woes
Market research firm IDC predicts that the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market will expand rather than contract during 2009, even as broader markets for products and services are declining or at a standstill.
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Panning for Gold
Today’s prospectors aren’t searching for gold or silver—they are sorting through streams of information for untapped intelligence lost inside a carrier’s database that can be turned into actionable information. Having the business users manning the pans also makes the process less time-consuming for IT.
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Behind the Buzz - SaaS
Prior to deploying the iPartners platform, Celina had built its own data warehouse and analysis tool. However, after building the warehouse, the system sat relatively unused.
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iPartners recognized as an Up and Coming Technology Firm in Property and Casualty
iPartners Honored Among the Winners in Insurer`s Choice Technology Ranking 2009
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Insurers Use Analytics to Assign the Right Price
Working with iPartners LLC, Alpharetta, Ga., Majestic is able to identify trends such as sudden changes in the frequency, duration and outcome of medical ...
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Improving Broker Performance: iPartners SaaS Business Intelligence System Aids Marketing Efforts at Majestic Insurance
The iPartners Insurance Scorecard, a SaaS (software as a service) Business Intelligence (BI) system designed especially for insurance companies, is helping marketing executives at Majestic Insurance Company manage the performance of the firm’s brokers more effectively.
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iPartners: Property Casualty Insurance Scorecard
Property casualty insurance company managers are using the iPartners Insurance Scorecard, an SaaS (software as a service) application, to analyze performance data more thoroughly than they could before the s corecard was installed.
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iPartners Insurance Scorecard Streamlines Reporting at ULLICO
ULLICO Inc., the nation's only fully-unionized provider of multi-line insurance, financial services and administrative products, has streamlined its financial and management reporting function since implementing the iPartners Insurance Scorecard
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American Safety Insurance improves business intelligence and performance
A decision a year ago by American Safety Insurance Services, Inc. (ASI) to
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Who's Buying What: Recent deals for technology software and services
Property/casualty carrier Celina Insurance Group, Celina, Ohio, has implemented Alpharetta, Ga.-based iPartners LLC's Insurance Scorecard, a software-as-a service business intelligence system.
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iPartner Data Management Scorecard Application Released
Atlanta-based iPartners has announced the release of iPartners Insurance Scorecard to help managers in mid-sized property casualty insurance companies to view and analyze all of the data they need to maximize profitability.
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Insurance and Technology Performance Monitors
Application partners and spinoff iPartners have released performance indicator iScorecard and customizable user interface iDashboard for property and casualty insurers.
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DM Review - iControl Release Announcement
iPartners added an ad hoc reporting feature called iControl to the iPartners Insurance Scorecard.
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Opposition rising on changes to flood-insurance law
Environmentalists, consumer organizations and insurers have joined forces to oppose a bill expanding the National Flood Insurance Program to include coverage for wind damage.
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Appeals court allows WTC case to move forward
A federal appeals court has ruled that lawsuits by over 10,000 World Trade Center relief workers can move forward against New York City and contractors under its jurisdiction, as well as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
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Consumer and taxpayer groups join insurers to oppose windstorm bill
In a case of politics making strange bedfellows, J. Robert Hunter of the Consumer Federation of America and the Reinsurance Association of America have joined to oppose legislation expanding the National Flood Insurance Program.
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Insurers oppose plan requiring climate change assessment
Insurance trade groups are seething over plans by regulators to move ahead this weekend with a proposed rule requiring insurers to make assessments of climate change impact on their customers and investment partners.
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Bankers Cautiously Supportive: Say Overhaul Long Overdue
Western New York bankers say they're generally supportive of the Bush administration plan to overhaul the nation''s financial regulatory structure to meet changing times, but they''re wary of rushing too quickly, going too far, and losing the historic role of states.
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