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Fireman's Fund sees strategic differentiation in SOA: Fireman's Fund is one of several leading adopters of Service Oriented Architecture SOA in the insurance industry. The company, which generates $4.3 Billion in premium revenue, is relying on SOA to consolidate 70% of its technology applications. By more effectively aligning business with IT and strengthening its relationship with agents,...; Tags: Fireman, Fred Matteson, SOA; Blog posts 2005-08-21

Creating competitive advantage through IT: A Churchill Club panel discussion on July 27 dealt with the complex issue of getting competitive advantage from IT investments. Nick Carr stirred up controversy with his article and book positing that in most cases IT doesn't offer competitive advantage, basically because everybody has access to the same technology. Most...; Tags: Information Technology, Competitive Advantage, Strategy, Management, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2005-08-03
Fireman's Fund embraces SOA: At a recent IBM customer conference, Steve Mills, IBM's software group senior vice president, and Michael Liebow, vice president of Web services for IBM's Global Services Division, presented their vision of SOA's future. Mills contended that new developments in the field will help SOAs become an increasingly attractive option for...; Tags: SOA; Blog posts 2005-06-16
CIO agenda: Three funerals and a wedding: Tom Foremski of the SiliconValleyWatcher describes the mood of the recent Churchhill Club CIO panel with particpants from Levi Strauss, Agilent Technologies, Microsoft and Fireman's Fund as "three funerals and a wedding." * Ron Markezich, the Microsoft CIO, was in an ebullient mood, very much at odds with the rest of the...; Tags: Agilent Technologies Inc., Fireman, Fund, Ron Markezich; Blog posts 2004-12-02

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