ICT investment trends in insurance

NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

Summary
While providers intend to make some or significant IT investments across all insurance business functions through 2016, vendors need to respond to this in relation to the current market dynamics across the sector. More providers invested in modernizing their core systems such as policy administration and claims processing in order to improve infrastructure and policy service, as well as to achieve efficiency and lay the groundwork for growth and investment in new digital technologies

Key Findings
- Modernization of core systems has been top of mind for insurers through 2016
- Insurers will boost investment in real-time analytics in the next two years
- Vendors are in turn expected to better contextualize their solutions and services

Synopsis
ICT investment trends in insurance presents the findings from a survey of 99 insurers regarding their Information and Communications Technology (ICT) investment trends. The survey investigates how insurers currently allocate their ICT budgets across the core areas of enterprise ICT expenditure: hardware, software, IT services, communications, and consulting. The report illustrates the core technologies insurers are investing in, including business intelligence, internet of things (IoT) and green IT and virtualization. Understand the approach adopted by insurance companies to purchase technology and get a better insight into ICT vendors and services providers when pitching their solutions to insurers. The report focuses on insurers' ICT expenditure trends for specific business areas, identifying the top three IT projects, and understanding the business challenges faced by insurers.

In particular, it provides an in-depth analysis of the following:
- How ICT budgets are set to change in 2015 in terms of their overall size
- Allocation across the core elements of IT spend, including hardware, software, services, communications, and consulting
- Distribution of ICT money in areas such as the business intelligence, internet of things (IoT) and green IT and virtualization
- Which ICT functions insurers are interested in outsourcing
- Insurers' investment priorities based on their budget allocations across core technology categories such as business intelligence, internet of things (IoT) and green IT and virtualization
- Factors that are influencing insurers' investments in each technology category
- How insurers' IT budgets are currently allocated across various segments within a technology category
- Insurers' distribution of their ICT budget across various segments within a technology category
- Vendor satisfaction ratings for various core and advanced technology categories
- Insight into insurers' preferred buying approaches
- Business objectives that insurers are looking to achieve through their IT investment strategies

Reasons To Buy
- Understand how the insurers' ICT landscape is set to change in 2016 to prioritize your target market
- Comprehend how ICT money are being allocated by insurers in specific verticals and size bands to improve your market penetration
- Make effective business decisions by recognizing the opportunities within each of the core areas of ICT spend (hardware, software, IT services, telecommunications, and consulting)
- Realign your sales initiatives by understanding the current strategic objectives of insurers
- Enhance your market segmentation with the included, detailed breakdown of opportunities within selected technology categories (Business intelligence, Internet of things (IoT) and Green IT and virtualization)
- Prioritize your focus areas by understanding which factors are influencing insurers' decisions when selecting an ICT provider
- Understand the changes in customers' priorities and identify the business and IT objectives that insurers are looking to achieve through their ICT investment strategies

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