Fixing the Insurance Systems Ecosystem

By leveraging an enterprise architecture, insurance IT organizations can simplify their system portfolios, reducing maintenance burdens and improving development capabilities, according to 2006 Elite 8 honoree John Kellington, now SVP, ACORD.

Insurance CIOs have a very challenging role. In order to be successful, they require financial acumen, deep technical experience and an understanding of the supported business. Meanwhile the operational environment of managing hundreds of systems along with the need for new application development creates a resource strain that seems never-ending... This scenario will remain the same unless CIOs can fix their ecosystems...

I&T: Fixing the Insurance Systems Ecosystem