With changing lifestyle choices, climatic changes, and overall technological inventions, the present-day risk scenario has also transformed. Insurance companies are coming up with wacky insurance proposals such as Alien Abduction insurance, body part insurance, Taste Buds insurance, Valentine insurance, Bail bond insurance, Wedding insurance, and Kidnapping insurance too. Some [...]
Can you determine a potential risk? Guess not. With changing lifestyle and rapidly revolutionizing technology, the idea of ‘potential risk’ is also getting constantly redefined. This has become a serious challenge for the insurance sector. Technology platforms continue to serve as a strong pillar that can help and strengthen [...]
Usage-based Insurance (UBI) is an innovative type of vehicle insurance that calculates insurance costs based chiefly on the vehicle used. Usage based Insurance allows insurance carriers to monitor their customer driving habits through a telematics device. Telematics and UBI play an integral part in the future of auto insurance market. [...]
Deloitte in its report on Insurance industry outlook has deliberated on how the Insurance sector is facing significant disruption and how the traditional business models can pose a challenge to the industry. Is the insurance sector lagging in a socio-economic scenario that demands more alertness and personalized attention? Can [...]
Several accounts of people leaving lucrative jobs in order to work for themselves have popped up repeatedly over recent times. Marketplace aggregators such as Uber have ensured that these dreams could be achieved by the average person. Concepts such as ‘ride sharing’ enable consumers to commute to their destination [...]
As per the Global Insurance Outlook by Ernst & Young for 2015, “Many insurers are investing in digital platforms that strengthen their relationships with customers across all product classifications and geographies. Their goal is to empower both businesses and consumers to better shop for insurance, making products more transparent, [...]
[Tweet ““New Technologies and Business Models Will Drive Digital Disruption in Insurance” – Gartner’s predictions for 2016”] Technology is evolving fast and many insurance organizations are challenged to keep up the pace. These technological advancements are driving the demand for software developers to acquire new skills and capabilities in the [...]
In a sector like insurance that is marked by its inherent complexity and diversified structure, development of new features and maintenance of the insurance application is a challenge. But a bigger challenge is test data management as the data in such applications tend to be sensitive, interdependent and often [...]
