For the first time at ACORD LOMA one of the sessions was a discussion, a workshop on a topic that required the audience to participate.  The session, “Social Media in Business: Friend, Foe, or Who Cares” was moderated by Mike Fitzgerald of Celent and in the end was well attended and well received. When I [...]

Several aspects of this deal stand out. It is the first acquisition by Guidewire, which until now has been a “we build it, we sell it shop.” It augments Guidewire’s capabilities in the hottest part of the technology landscape: Business Intelligence/Analytics. And it reinforces Guidewire’s strategy to capture the community and network effect benefits of [...]

Celent recently held its first UK CIO Agenda Roundtable.   The aim of this event was to bring together senior IT executives from across the UK insurance industry to debate shared topics of interest.  The event was hosted by a CIO’s at their premises, and the prize for hosting was that the CIO got to choose [...]

Celent Analyst Karen Monks This event is free to attend for Celent clients, flex-plan clients, and the media. Non-clients can attend for a fee of US$250. If you are unsure of your client status, please contact Chuck Smith at +1.617.262.3125 or csmith@celent.com. Please click here for more information.

The week of April 22nd was something of a landmark in the Celent Peer Networking process. For the first time, we held two events in the same week; the first in Wellesely, Ma. focusing on Group and Voluntary Insurance, and the second in Columbus, Oh. with a focus on Innovation across business lines. I was [...]

It’s hard to believe that it’s May already and the conference season is about to begin in North America, with ACORD LOMA in Las Vegas next week and IASA in Washington next month. These events have always been great places to gain knowledge about insurance technologies in a short space of time while trying to [...]

I had the good fortune to attend Gadget Show Live this year – a day off secured on the proviso I wrote a blog post. There were a few things that were a surprise to me that I thought it worth sharing here. What’s running computers… In terms of presence of platform Android won. There [...]

Celent Senior Analysts Craig Beattie and Mike Fitzgerald This event is free to attend for Celent clients, flex-plan clients, and the media. Non-clients can attend for a fee of US$250. If you are unsure of your client status, please contact Chuck Smith at +1.617.262.3125 or csmith@celent.com. Please click here for more information.

Celent Senior Analysts Nicolas Michellod and Craig Beattie This event is free to attend for Celent clients, flex-plan clients, and the media. Non-clients can attend for a fee of US$250. If you are unsure of your client status, please contact Chuck Smith at +1.617.262.3125 or csmith@celent.com. Please click here for more information.

Celent Senior Analyst Nicolas Michellod This event is free to attend for Celent clients, flex-plan clients, and the media. Non-clients can attend for a fee of US$250. If you are unsure of your client status, please contact Chuck Smith at +1.617.262.3125 or csmith@celent.com. Please click here for more information.