Cisco plans to expand its services business over the next several years, seeing a more important role for itself in a world of connected machines and devices. The company will build up its managed services and consulting services, ...
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Consumer goods giant Unilever is looking at how it can optimise its global operations using SAP’s HANA in-memory database. The company has been consolidating its SAP systems over the past 20 years and now runs 4 regional systems. ...
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Generali France has entered into a 10 year agreement with Accenture to manage a portfolio of over 100,000 individual life insurance policies, which are no longer underwritten, marketed or promoted by the insurer. Based on the agreement, ...
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Mutual Benefit has selected Accenture Claim Components software to improve customer service and to replace the insurer’s legacy claims systems. Accenture will implement the new system to assist the firm to achieve faster, more ...
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Accenture has introduced an enhanced version of its life and annuity insurance software suite, Life Insurance Platform, in an effort to lower operating costs for insurers. Accenture Software for life insurance product line lead Mitchel ...
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Southern Trust has chosen Accenture's Duck Creek policy administration and billing software to modernize core insurance policy system and enhance processes to support business expansion. The software suite will serve as core commercial ...
IDG News Service-Nokia Siemens Networks is selling off its second business unit in less than a week,and has announced the closure of another,as it focuses on its more profitable mobile broadband networking activities. Canadian company ...
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and casualty (P&C) policy software suite to replace its legacy policy administration and billing systems, as part of long-term strategy for increasing customer service and satisfaction. Accenture Duck Creek Policy Administration and ...
Accenture has received a contract from the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) to develop, build and maintain an integrated Medicine Evaluation System. The company will provide the national authority that approves new medicines with ...
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Nokia Siemens Networks is selling its optical networking business unit to private investment firm Marlin Equity Partners, the latest in a series of sell-offs as the vendor concentrates on mobile broadband networks. The two companies ...
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The Navy Mutual Aid Association has chosen the Accenture Life Insurance Platform, the life and annuity insurance software suite from Accenture. The new platform supports Navy Mutual's life and annuity product configuration, new business, ...
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Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (AJG) has announced the promotion of Eric Dean, Jerome Hanner and Cara Richardson as the new corporate vice presidents. Arthur chairman, president and CEO Patrick Gallagher said: "All of these individuals have ...
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The British Film Institute (BFI) is to launch its own version of the BBC's iPlayer, as part of digitisation plans which could give millions of people access to its vast archive. The commercial model for the "BFiPlayer" will be decided in ...
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US based property and casualty insurance group Crum & Forster has selected Accenture’s Duck Creek Policy Administration system to modernize policy processing system for commercial lines, specialty lines and workers’ ...
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Tony Prestedge is COO at Nationwide.He joined the building society halfway through a GBP1bn IT transformation which he then took charge of.He talks to Computer Weekly about the progress being made,the benefits already being seen and what ...
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