Insurance events and webcasts sponsored by Microsoft and other organizations can help you meet and share ideas with others in the industry and stay informed on the latest products, technologies, processes, and trends. Browse this page to find an event you can attend in person or participate from the convenience of your desktop.
At the 2009 ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum, Microsoft and key partners demonstrated how insurance organizations can realize the benefits of becoming a People-Ready Business with software that uniquely strengthens the capabilities and connections of people to create value in their roles. Through Microsoft's Insurance Value Chain, carriers can quickly adapt to a more competitive business environment by breaking down the barriers that prevent people, business processes, and systems & tools from executing with the maximum efficiency and expediency. By creating Connected Experiences that bridge the digital lifestyle and digital workstyle, you will be able to transform the customer, employee and operations experience, turn challenges into opportunities, and drive positive results.
Financial Services Partner Technical Briefing Series - Windows Azure At this pre-recorded webcast, learn how Software as a Service and Cloud Computing represent new opportunities for the Financial Services industry and how it can enable customers to quickly adopt new business capabilities with minimal to no hardware and software investments. Join us to learn how Microsoft's Cloud Computing platform “Windows Azure” provides you with the opportunity to leverage a set of pre-built services on a robust and scalable technology infrastructure and migrate what you have today into the cloud to propel adoption of your solutions while accelerating your sales cycle and reducing implementation timelines and costs. While this will be a technical discussion, Microsoft will talk about how they see Azure benefiting the Financial Services industry and software partners in particular.
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Navigating the financial storm: Growing share by transforming customer and employee experience The current economic environment is forcing all financial institutions, including insurance companies, to reassess their IT strategies. While most carriers are not making radical cuts in IT budgets, it's more important than ever to focus investment in areas that can truly deliver value and payback by improving efficiency, addressing customer needs and enabling carriers to respond effectively to new regulation and market realignment. What are the critical solutions and tools that will help insurance companies take customer relationships deeper and quickly adapt to new operational needs?
In this Webcast, moderated by Insurance & Technology Editorial Director Kathy Burger, get an insider's view of some of the new solutions and emerging technologies and platforms that can help insurance companies be more competitive, responsive and profitable in today's tough financial services environment. Learn how to make the most of limited IT budgets and resources through strategic partnerships and investment in solutions that can be leveraged to address a range of imperatives, from compliance to product innovation to distribution effectiveness.
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Get smart about on-demand voice services Join us for a fresh look at your most important customer contact channel: the phone. Forrester Research will provide guidance on using voice technology to meet your customers' ever changing expectations. Tellme will share its thinking on how to develop a true picture of the economic returns from deploying and maintaining an IVR solution.
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Get Smart About Business Intelligence webinar In this webinar, we'll look at how business leaders can get the information they need from the tools being delivered. You will also learn how Insurity has leveraged core data management products from Microsoft to create Reporting Decisions. Insurity's Reporting Decisions delivers powerful business intelligence (BI) capabilities uniquely predefined for property & casualty insurers by delivering prebuilt data models, BI Dashboards, key performance Indicators and reports based on years of experience delivering end-to-end policy solutions. Learn how today's tools can help you understand your business goals and measure your progress towards meeting them.
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The Web 2.0 Connected Experience for Insurance. Microsoft Industry Technical Strategist, Colin Cole, dives deeper into the IVC Software Factory for ACORD Standards and demonstrates a next-generation web reference user interface that can be implemented today.
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High-Performance Computing for Capital Modeling and Hedging Strategies How can customers improve competitiveness? In this webcast replay, hear from Insurance & Technology's Editorial Director Kathy Burger, who discusses how parallel computational clusters are helping life insurance companies meet these increasing pressures to achieve more computing speed and capacity, and how High-Performance Computing is becoming a mission-critical capability in the IT strategy of every life insurance company. In addition, you will hear from Microsoft partner Milliman, Inc. and our customer on how they are addressing HPC in the Insurance industry. 59:05 minutes
