Microsoft is enhancing research and analytics with AI for investment banks, asset management firms, and financial data and analytics providers.
Global digitization combined with unprecedented changes to the financial services business model is mandating transformation. What’s your plan for digital transformation? How will you transform and perform in this new environment, satisfying clients and shareholders alike? Join us at Microsoft Envision from April 4-6, 2016 in New Orleans. Microsoft Envision brings together the most forward
Its getting hard to keep saying blockchain for everything in this space, so I'll just start referring to it as the distributed ledger ecosystem. Azure Blockchain as a Service has become a very diverse ecosystem hosting a wide variety of technologies. Open, is perhaps what best describes the current environment: A place for partners to put new platforms, frameworks, tools and services for curious customers to discover and experiment with. What is the best way to find out how well a consensus protocol performs in a geographically distributed network? Azure of course! What is the right platform to test out a wild idea for distributed ledger technology without breaking the bank (pun intended)? Azure of course! How should you go about testing a particular platform against your functional and non-functional requirements? Azure of course!
According to a calculation run by Willis Towers Watson, the cost of insuring the world’s population has been calculated at approximately $190 trillion, or roughly 2.5 times world GDP*.
Digital disruption is now occurring at every level – accelerated by the rise of next generation customers who are much more mobile, socially connected and demanding for state-of-the-art services.
STRATO Azure’s Blockchain as a Service welcomes its first certified offering from Blockapps: STRATO. The STRATO offering is a single-node blockchain instance, which acts as a developer sandbox for testing Ethereum blockchain applications and offers the STRATO RESTful API for connecting applications to private, semi-private (consortium) and public Ethereum blockchains. Combined with Bloc, the web application software development kit which
Optimized processing and advanced analytics are enabling insurers to deliver exceptional claims processing and prevent pay-out of fraudulent claims
We hear from BIAN’s Hans Tesselaar about the progress the banking standards association is making to develop the most complete banking industry framework
APIs are set to change the way banks bring to market new applications, drive innovation and better serve their digital customers, as we find out in conversation with Microsoft’s Guillermo Kopp and Peter Hazou
If insurance companies provide effective, easy to access self-help BI, they can focus on profitable lines and customers; better anticipate and manage their claims environments; and respond more quickly to opportunities and sources of risk.
Learn the importance of bridging the gaps between reporting and predictive analytics, and how you need to go beyond operational reporting.
Global digitization, combined with unprecedented changes to the financial services business model, is mandating transformation.
Data has been an important part of the insurance industry for centuries, but the emergence of big data has brought unprecedented challenges to insurers around the world. Today, insurance companies large and small need to ingest, process, analyze and act on massive amounts of data from heterogeneous sources quickly and cost effectively.
