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Use of distribution management systems is increasing due to a variety of changes happening in the market. The increase in insurance agency merge…
Use of distribution management systems is increasing due to a variety of changes happening in the market. The increase in insurance agency merge…
Use of distribution management systems is increasing due to a variety of changes happening in the market. The increase in insurance agency merge…
Out of necessity, insurers are becoming much more sophisticated in how they think about distribution management. While the primary channel for b…
About the Showcase Gen AI is the hottest topic in the industry right now. Insurers are reaching out daily with questions and the need for advice…
Celent conducted a survey of producers with a set of questions covering management issues related to the use of technology, digital transformati…
Distribution management systems are increasing in use due to a variety of changes happening in the market. The increase in insurance agency merg…
Distribution management systems are increasing in use due to a variety of changes happening in the market. The increase in insurance agency merg…
Shifting customer expectations are creating a new need for new business models. As the current workforce ages, insurers are exploring new distri…
Insurers that use independent agents know that high production is correlated with strong relationships. But the world of the independent agent i…
Managing agent licensing is a business-critical function for insurers and agencies. But as insurers and agencies look to grow, they face increas…
At the start of the new decade, there is a noticeable observation in how business models are evolving to satisfy the latest generation of workin…
Managing the variety and innovation in a global distribution environment increasingly requires 'digital tools' and capabilities that allow insur…
Managing the variety and dynamism in a distribution environment that is increasingly digital requires tools that allow insurers to deal with a v…
The new era of customer-centricity in insurance applies to agents just as much as it applies to policyholders. Many insurers are focusing their…
Celent has released a new report titled Onboarding in Corporate Transaction Banking: Prioritizing Investments for Reducing Friction. The report…
.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…
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…
Insurers have been modernizing their legacy systems, increasing their presence in cloud, and finding innovative use cases driven by emerging tec…
This research will provide an overview of the insurance market and technology trends in Australia and New Zealand. We will provide examples of i…
2020 has not been an ordinary year for life insurance companies. Celent expects insurers will move many digitally sales oriented investments to…
2020 has not been an ordinary year for life insurance companies. Celent expects insurers will move many digitally sales oriented investments to…
Healthcare is more important than ever, and digital health solutions are enabling personalized health assessment and overall care. Digital healt…
The current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has put the global environment into trying times and it signify opportunities to extend current…
System decisions are complicated. In this report, targeted at both the buyer and the seller, Celent discusses how to manage the process of comin…
A focus on the insurance ecosystem, the role of digital, innovation, and InsurTech. I had the great pleasure of attending DIA Munich 2018 . As a…
Celent has published a new report titled Views of the Past and Future: Trends and Predictions for North American Illustration Systems.The report…
Celent has released a report that reviews the global life insurance illustration solution spectrum titled Predicting the Future: 2016 EMEA, APAC…
Celent has released a report that reviews the North American life insurance illustration solution spectrum titled Predicting the Future, 2016 No…
Insurers have been modernizing their legacy systems, increasing their presence in cloud, and finding innovative use cases driven by emerging tec…
Are emerging technologies providing cost-effective options to manage closed block policies? In the L&A insurance segment, millions of policies t…
Best in Class Digital Insurance - A Celent Peer Networking Event Recap On Wednesday, October 20, Celent welcomed 20 life insurance leaders in vi…
Over the past two weeks, I moderated and presented at the 2021 InsureTech Connect Asia and Finovate Asia conferences. The hive of activities has…
Is the intrinsic value of the coverage enough? Or do new customers want more from their insurance company? Today’s insurance experience is often…
Snap polls reflect questions posed by members of the Celent executive research panel. Several members of the NA L&H panel queried about digital…
Yesterday, Lemonade announced the launch of their long awaited Life protection offering through a strategic partnership with Bestow. This is an…
User Experience and User DesignIn human-computer interaction, the goal is to bridge the gap between a user mental model with the product concept…
As 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…
This report explains the use cases of computer vision and OCR in insurance companies, together with the offerings vendors have developed. Next,…
At the start of the new decade, there is a noticeable observation in how business models are evolving to satisfy the latest generation of workin…
Celent's recent report, Upping the Bar, focused on the cost and key performance indicators of the New Business and Underwriting (NBUW) process a…
System decisions are complicated. In this report, targeted at both the buyer and the seller, Celent discusses how to manage the process of comin…
Celent has released a new report titled The Doorway to Straight-Through Processing: Life Insurance Electronic Applications 2016 North American V…
After writing our biannual report on new business and underwritiing systems ( New Business and Underwriting Systems: North America Life Insuranc…
Celent recently published a review of the underwriting systems marketed and sold to North American life insurers: New Business and Underwriting…
Have you wondered what changes were implemented for underwriting during the pandemic and how life insurance underwriting changed over the past t…
COVID-19 and the underlying macroeconomic environment forced life insurers to deeply examine their product offerings and business processes beca…
Since the onset of COVID-19, the life insurance industry had to make some dramatic changes. The pandemic forced life insurers to digitize rapidl…
Life Insurance Underwriting - Is It Changing Fast Enough? Every two years we do a deep dive into life insurance underwriting systems. We look at…
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…
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…
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…
Best in Class Digital Insurance - A Celent Peer Networking Event Recap On Wednesday, October 20, Celent welcomed 20 life insurance leaders in vi…
Is the intrinsic value of the coverage enough? Or do new customers want more from their insurance company? Today’s insurance experience is often…
Elon Musk once said “Failure is an option here. If you’re not failing, you’re not innovating enough". When I reflect on our work here at Celent,…
Snap polls reflect questions posed by members of the Celent executive research panel. Several members of the NA L&H panel queried about digital…
Alternative data sources would provide insurers with additional data that complement internal organizational or policyholders’ information. It w…
Insurers are pursuing digitization while challenging themselves to become customer centric. Some have gone the path of establishing greenfield d…
About the Showcase Gen AI is the hottest topic in the industry right now.Insurers are reaching out daily with questions and the need for advice…
What is a life policy administration system? What life insurers use them for? What do they think of their components, features and functions? Do…
Without a doubt, the pandemic spurred digital investment and CIOs started spending money on updating old technologies. Celent’s ongoing conversa…
Using data from Celent's biennial North American policy administration solution (PAS) review, Celent drills down on the customer feedback to giv…
Insurers have various approaches to acquire core business functions and capabilities. One approach is to look at relevant policy administration…
This report is the fourth in Celent’s biennial look at group and voluntary policy administration systems (PAS) available to life insurers in Nor…
In this ninth installment of Celent's biennial look at policy administration systems (PAS) available to life insurers in North America, we profi…
Insurers have various approaches to acquire core business functions and capabilities. One approach is to look at relevant policy administration…
Insurers have various approaches to acquire core business functions and capabilities. One approach is to look at relevant policy administration…
Insurers have been modernizing their legacy systems, increasing their presence in cloud, and finding innovative use cases driven by emerging tec…
Are emerging technologies providing cost-effective options to manage closed block policies? In the L&A insurance segment, millions of policies t…
This research will provide an overview of the insurance market and technology trends in Australia and New Zealand. We will provide examples of i…
What is Takaful Insurance? Takaful, often referred to as 'Islamic insurance', is a way for businesses to mitigate the financial risk of unforese…
The global pandemic forced many insurers to accelerate the digitalization of their businesses. This came with a record number of policy administ…
The 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…
After writing our biannual report on new business and underwritiing systems ( New Business and Underwriting Systems: North America Life Insuranc…
Celent recently published a review of the underwriting systems marketed and sold to North American life insurers: New Business and Underwriting…
Have you wondered what changes were implemented for underwriting during the pandemic and how life insurance underwriting changed over the past t…
COVID-19 and the underlying macroeconomic environment forced life insurers to deeply examine their product offerings and business processes beca…
Since the onset of COVID-19, the life insurance industry had to make some dramatic changes. The pandemic forced life insurers to digitize rapidl…
Life Insurance Underwriting - Is It Changing Fast Enough? Every two years we do a deep dive into life insurance underwriting systems. We look at…
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…
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…
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…
Best in Class Digital Insurance - A Celent Peer Networking Event Recap On Wednesday, October 20, Celent welcomed 20 life insurance leaders in vi…
Is the intrinsic value of the coverage enough? Or do new customers want more from their insurance company? Today’s insurance experience is often…
Elon Musk once said “Failure is an option here. If you’re not failing, you’re not innovating enough". When I reflect on our work here at Celent,…
Snap polls reflect questions posed by members of the Celent executive research panel. Several members of the NA L&H panel queried about digital…
Alternative data sources would provide insurers with additional data that complement internal organizational or policyholders’ information. It w…
Insurers are pursuing digitization while challenging themselves to become customer centric. Some have gone the path of establishing greenfield d…
Are emerging technologies providing cost-effective options to manage closed block policies? In the L&A insurance segment, millions of policies t…
Best in Class Digital Insurance - A Celent Peer Networking Event Recap On Wednesday, October 20, Celent welcomed 20 life insurance leaders in vi…
Over the past two weeks, I moderated and presented at the 2021 InsureTech Connect Asia and Finovate Asia conferences. The hive of activities has…
Is the intrinsic value of the coverage enough? Or do new customers want more from their insurance company? Today’s insurance experience is often…
Yesterday, Lemonade announced the launch of their long awaited Life protection offering through a strategic partnership with Bestow. This is an…
As 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…
This report explains the use cases of computer vision and OCR in insurance companies, together with the offerings vendors have developed. Next,…
At the start of the new decade, there is a noticeable observation in how business models are evolving to satisfy the latest generation of workin…
System decisions are complicated. In this report, targeted at both the buyer and the seller, Celent discusses how to manage the process of comin…
In 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…
A digital point-of-sale (“POS”) platform offers consumers the ability to buy life insurance online instantly. These cloud-based platforms are ma…
COVID-19 created lasting changes in the distribution of life insurance. The evolution of direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales was slow until the pande…
Embedded finance is reshaping the way customers engage with financial products and expanding the distribution of tools and services that banks,…
Over the past two weeks, I moderated and presented at the 2021 InsureTech Connect Asia and Finovate Asia conferences. The hive of activities has…
Insurers are pursuing digitization while challenging themselves to become customer centric. Some have gone the path of establishing greenfield d…
Insurers are choosing other approaches to technology modernization than just going with the traditional industrial approach where you build a ne…
As we head forward into 2020, we are witnessing common acceptance for remote delivery and communication, whereby both client-relationships and i…
Insurtechs and innovation are the disruptors of the insurance world, and in Singapore, there is a unique group of insurtech companies that seek…
In this report, we look at insurance claims and healthcare use cases for image recognition. Due to the synergy between insurance and healthcare,…
At the start of the new decade, there is a noticeable observation in how business models are evolving to satisfy the latest generation of workin…
InsureTech Connect is the world’s largest insurtech event and this document was created for Celent customers interested in insurtech and innovat…
.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…
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…
Insurers have been modernizing their legacy systems, increasing their presence in cloud, and finding innovative use cases driven by emerging tec…
This research will provide an overview of the insurance market and technology trends in Australia and New Zealand. We will provide examples of i…
2020 has not been an ordinary year for life insurance companies. Celent expects insurers will move many digitally sales oriented investments to…
2020 has not been an ordinary year for life insurance companies. Celent expects insurers will move many digitally sales oriented investments to…
Healthcare is more important than ever, and digital health solutions are enabling personalized health assessment and overall care. Digital healt…
The current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has put the global environment into trying times and it signify opportunities to extend current…
System decisions are complicated. In this report, targeted at both the buyer and the seller, Celent discusses how to manage the process of comin…
A focus on the insurance ecosystem, the role of digital, innovation, and InsurTech. I had the great pleasure of attending DIA Munich 2018 . As a…
Celent has published a new report titled Views of the Past and Future: Trends and Predictions for North American Illustration Systems.The report…
Celent has released a report that reviews the global life insurance illustration solution spectrum titled Predicting the Future: 2016 EMEA, APAC…
Celent has released a report that reviews the North American life insurance illustration solution spectrum titled Predicting the Future, 2016 No…
After writing our biannual report on new business and underwritiing systems ( New Business and Underwriting Systems: North America Life Insuranc…
Celent recently published a review of the underwriting systems marketed and sold to North American life insurers: New Business and Underwriting…
Have you wondered what changes were implemented for underwriting during the pandemic and how life insurance underwriting changed over the past t…
COVID-19 and the underlying macroeconomic environment forced life insurers to deeply examine their product offerings and business processes beca…
Since the onset of COVID-19, the life insurance industry had to make some dramatic changes. The pandemic forced life insurers to digitize rapidl…
Life Insurance Underwriting - Is It Changing Fast Enough? Every two years we do a deep dive into life insurance underwriting systems. We look at…
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…
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…
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…
Best in Class Digital Insurance - A Celent Peer Networking Event Recap On Wednesday, October 20, Celent welcomed 20 life insurance leaders in vi…
Is the intrinsic value of the coverage enough? Or do new customers want more from their insurance company? Today’s insurance experience is often…
Elon Musk once said “Failure is an option here. If you’re not failing, you’re not innovating enough". When I reflect on our work here at Celent,…
Snap polls reflect questions posed by members of the Celent executive research panel. Several members of the NA L&H panel queried about digital…
Alternative data sources would provide insurers with additional data that complement internal organizational or policyholders’ information. It w…
Insurers are pursuing digitization while challenging themselves to become customer centric. Some have gone the path of establishing greenfield d…
.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…
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…
Insurers have been modernizing their legacy systems, increasing their presence in cloud, and finding innovative use cases driven by emerging tec…
This research will provide an overview of the insurance market and technology trends in Australia and New Zealand. We will provide examples of i…
2020 has not been an ordinary year for life insurance companies. Celent expects insurers will move many digitally sales oriented investments to…
2020 has not been an ordinary year for life insurance companies. Celent expects insurers will move many digitally sales oriented investments to…
Healthcare is more important than ever, and digital health solutions are enabling personalized health assessment and overall care. Digital healt…
The current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has put the global environment into trying times and it signify opportunities to extend current…
System decisions are complicated. In this report, targeted at both the buyer and the seller, Celent discusses how to manage the process of comin…
A focus on the insurance ecosystem, the role of digital, innovation, and InsurTech. I had the great pleasure of attending DIA Munich 2018 . As a…
Celent has published a new report titled Views of the Past and Future: Trends and Predictions for North American Illustration Systems.The report…
Celent has released a report that reviews the global life insurance illustration solution spectrum titled Predicting the Future: 2016 EMEA, APAC…
Celent has released a report that reviews the North American life insurance illustration solution spectrum titled Predicting the Future, 2016 No…