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Insurance IT leaders herald new era for digital customer experience

CIO

The insurance industry is undergoing a sea change, with IT playing a crucial role in rolling out digital customer experiences for policyholders and agents, as in-person meetings all but vanish in the post-pandemic era. IT as industry differentiator Insurers and financial services firms like MassMutual, of Springfield, Mass.,

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Planck, the insurance data analytics platform, raises $20M growth round

TechCrunch

Planck , the AI-based data platform for commercial insurance underwriting, announced today it has raised a $20 million growth round. Planck said it currently works with “dozens of commercial insurance companies in the U.S.,” including more than half of the top-30 insurers. It will use its new funding to build its U.S.

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As Next Insurance makes its first acquisition, insurtech looks energetic

TechCrunch

Next Insurance , a startup that competes in the small business (SMB) insurance market, announced this morning that it has acquired its first company. Next Insurance raised $250 million earlier this year at a valuation of $2 billion , making it one of the richest startups to compete in the broad insurtech niche.

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Cowbell raises $100M to build out its AI-based cyber insurance platform for SMBs

TechCrunch

Cybercrime is on the rise, and today an insurance startup that’s built an artificial intelligence-based platform to help manage the risks from that is announcing a big round of funding to meet the opportunity. “Underwriting cyber insurance for SMEs is a more dire prospect than for large enterprises,” he said. .

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Business intelligence and analytics firm Pyramid Analytics raises $100M

TechCrunch

Business intelligence is an increasingly well-funded category in the software-as-a-service market. Pervasive BI remains elusive, but statistics on the category reveal that about a third of employees use BI tools for analytics to inform strategy. “In short, data teams in enterprise analytics are stuck in the past.

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Perficient Included in IDC Market Glance: Payer, 2Q24

Perficient

Health insurers today are facing a rapidly evolving landscape of complex expectations and requirements. IDC Market Glance: Payer, 2Q24 Perficient is excited to be included in the IDC Market Glance: Payer, 2Q24 (doc #US51961724, April 2024) report. We were included in the categories of IT Services and Interoperability.

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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO

What is data analytics? Data analytics is a discipline focused on extracting insights from data. The chief aim of data analytics is to apply statistical analysis and technologies on data to find trends and solve problems. What are the four types of data analytics?

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