Anyone who has tried to resolve the wildly conflicting opinions found on Zagat or TripAdvisor or Ebay knows that feedback from strangers is of questionable value in determining the truth about goods or services.

With less than 400 working days to go until ‘go live’ for the UK Retail Distribution Review, many Life and Pensions companies are deep in the middle of planning their implementation. Due to start on 31st December 2012, this legislation will introduce major changes to the way that new long-term savings and investment products are [...]

It pains me to have regular conversations with industry participants of all persuasions where we all agree that there is room for two big industry shows a year, but not within weeks of each other.

Every year, Celent conducts a survey of software providers which details the activity in the insurance automation market (http://www.celent.com/reports/north-american-insurance-software-deal-trends-2011-lifehealthannuity-edition and http://www.celent.com/reports/north-american-insurance-software-deal-trends-2011-propertycasualty-edition). The latest snapshot showed a 14% growth in SaaS across all categories. This increase was expected based on conversations we had last year with both insurers and vendors. It was good to get some [...]

On the 19th of May, Celent has organized an event in Paris whose objective was to discuss about the French insurers CIO perspectives for 2011 and adoption of social media. As the first speaker I presented the results of our 2011 French CIO report. Interestingly, almost one-third of French insurers are considering investment in social [...]