Special Reports

Best Practices for Leveraging Business Analytics in Today's and Tomorrow's Insurance Sector Register now to download Mark B. Gorman & Associates’ research report on how prominent insurance organizations are using business analytics to thrive, not just survive, in today’s challenging market. This report details how insurance companies can make the cultural changes required to: Ensure enterprise collaboration in a siloed organization. Align resources toward thought leadership. Manage IT's transition from data guardian to data steward. Appropriate business analytics governance -- whether centralized or decentralized.

Performance management for the banking and insurance industries (full report) Register now to access the full 52-page special issue and read expert commentary and case studies about how banks and insurers can: Take a unified approach to performance management. Use analytics to improve performance through strategic insight and predictive performance management. Improve customer and product profitability.

Analytics makes the difference (sample article)
Download this article (PDF: 471KB) to read about how analytics makes a difference between merely managing performance and actually improving it.

Maximizing Lifetime Value Register now to access the 52-page sascom international insurance special issue and read about how to: Predict the lifetime value of their customers. Reduce rates by up to 70 percent for customers with a tailored risk management solution. Choose the right combination of tools to stop fraud in its tracks. Reap the rewards of an enterprise risk management strategy.

The Informed Insurer (sample article)
Download this article (PDF: 263K). Guest commentator Barry Rabkin of IDC Financial Insights on the advantages that real-time analytics can deliver.

Improving Customer Loyalty, Meeting Regulatory Requirements & SAVING COSTS Register now to access the 36-page sascom supplement that includes information on: Fighting Fraud – What is the price of complacency? Risk Management Strategies – Are you up-to-date? Agency Management – What are the current trends?

SAS End-to-End Business Intelligence Underwrites Performance at HBOS General Insurance (sample article)
Download this article (PDF: 91K). An integrated SAS solution provides management with essential performance intelligence for the general insurance arm of the HBOS Group.