I Wish
Friday, 31 May 2019
In our many (many!) years in the insurance business, the question that is always and universally asked is, “Why doesn’t the system [fill in the blank].” And, frankly, the response is almost universally the same: “I wish it did that, too.” Why doesn’t someone start with those universal questions? Why can’t a system: Be intuitive
- Published in Captive Software, Insurance Software, Megaladon News, Software Implementation
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The More Things Stay the Same: The Future of Tech in Insurance
Monday, 29 January 2018
If you take all the hype to its illogical conclusion, we’re right around the corner from people-less insurance companies. With technology advances, particularly with artificial intelligence (AI), we’ll have no need for underwriters or sales people, and claims decision-making will be performed by sophisticated algorithms without the need for human judgement. The savings in coffee
- Published in Megaladon News
8 Factors for Choosing Insurance Software
Tuesday, 07 November 2017
Have you ever wanted to throw your hands up in frustration at how your current insurance software system functions? Do you have umpteen workarounds to try to do one process…like prior term endorsements? Do you have to manually adapt premiums via debits/surcharges/credits to get a premium where it needs to be rated? Does your system
- Published in Insurance Software, Megaladon News, Software Implementation, Technology
For the Love of Spreadsheets
Monday, 22 May 2017
I love spreadsheets. I was weaned on Lotus 1-2-3, a master Quattro Pro user (including their macro language), and now I’m a pretty fair expert on Excel. I can do just about anything in Excel (short of programming), and if I don’t have a formula that one must pull the formula bar down four rows