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Commercial Lines Insurance- the End of the Line for All Data

Cloudera

Since the beginning of Commercial insurance as we know it today, insurers have been using data generated by other industries to assess and rate risks. In the days of Lloyd’s Coffee House , insurers gathered data about cargo, voyages, seasonal weather and the performance history of vessels and mariners to underwrite risks.

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How Big Data Is Influencing Web Design and What You Can Learn from It

Smart Data Collective

Big data has become the lifeblood of small and large businesses alike, and it is influencing every aspect of digital innovation, including web development. What is Big Data? Big data can be defined as the large volume of structured or unstructured data that requires processing and analytics beyond traditional methods.

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Quantitative and Qualitative Data: A Vital Combination

Sisense

These techniques allow you to: See trends and relationships among factors so you can identify operational areas that can be optimized Compare your data against hypotheses and assumptions to show how decisions might affect your organization Anticipate risk and uncertainty via mathematically modeling.

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The Benefits of Data Governance in Banks and Financial Institutions

Alation

Data governance means putting in place a continuous process to create and improve policies and standards around managing data to ensure that the information is usable, accessible, and protected. In banks, this means: Setting data format standards. Identifying structured and unstructured data that needs to be protected.

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Back to the Financial Regulatory Future

Cloudera

While there are clear reasons SVB collapsed, which can be reviewed here , my purpose in this post isn’t to rehash the past but to present some of the regulatory and compliance challenges financial (and to some degree insurance) institutions face and how data plays a role in mitigating and managing risk.

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How to Choose the Best Analytics Platform, and Empower Business-Driven Analytics

Grooper

Choosing the best analytics and BI platform for solving business problems requires non-technical workers to “speak data.”. A baseline understanding of data enables the proper communication required to “be on the same page” with data scientists and engineers. Master data management. Data governance.

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Shutterstock capitalizes on the cloud’s cutting edge

CIO Business Intelligence

Advancements in analytics and AI as well as support for unstructured data in centralized data lakes are key benefits of doing business in the cloud, and Shutterstock is capitalizing on its cloud foundation, creating new revenue streams and business models using the cloud and data lakes as key components of its innovation platform.