BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - June 10, 2010) - Between the financial chaos of the last two years and the forthcoming changes to insurance regulations in the United States of America, insurers are under intense pressure to care for their customers while staying above water themselves. The research report "The Intelligent Insurer: Enhanced Business Performance with Pervasive Analytics," announced today by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (
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The report reveals the strategies top performing insurers use to meet their performance management requirements. Aberdeen's research found:
- Top-performing insurers are more than twice as likely as their competitors to be able to measure performance against corporate goals. Business departments within top-performing insurance companies are also 2.2-times more likely to improve their use of business information by collaborating across departmental lines.
- Insurers who use Business Intelligence successfully expand their business analytics to more insurance activities. A company whose Business Intelligence system serves Marketing, Risk Assessment, Sales Management, Underwriting, and Re-insurance gets more mileage out of its data than a company that limits BI to particular business functions. Greater visibility and transparency help everyone.
"When managers can only access data relevant to their own branch of the business, they can't see how their work fits with the rest of the company," says Max Gladstone, Research Associate and co-author of the study. "By expanding insurance functions covered by Business Intelligence, insurers can put disparate bits of data into context, and help employees develop real knowledge about their business."
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