Data Analytics

Some insurers see fraud as just a cost of doing business, but that attitude can't continue in an era of razor-thin margins -- and there are answers.

Fine words about protecting privacy don't mask how consumers are being denied decision-making power about their own data.

The analytics firms being acquired by core solution providers have deep expertise that many insurers have never been able to access.

Insurers have unbelievably broad data -- but that won't matter unless we embrace an entirely new field of knowledge.

The C-suite believes in the need for data analytics but will not invest in initiatives they cannot measure, manage and understand.

Better data analytics is important in a way that people often don't recognize: They are the equivalent of “compounding interest.”

Traditional weather data -- primarily radar and satellite -- leave insurers with a blind spot about what's actually happening on the ground.

What ever happened to all those massive, megabillion-dollar data lakes we all kept hearing about over the past few years?