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Insurance Underwriter Relies on Microsoft to Manage and Secure Its Growing IT

Beazley engaged Microsoft Gold Partner Eurodata Systems, an IT solutions and consultancy company, to jointly design an architecture that used Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. The solution provides secure remote access and management, the ability to do business online, reliable IT, and an...

Tags: Solution, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Insurance Underwriter, Insurance, Financial Planning, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management

Case studies 2006-04-28

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IDF: Will your device really get to know you?

IDF: Will your device really get to know you?Personal devicesYou will receive a discount on health insurance, or maybe a chance to keep you job, when you wear the device and provide the information to the insurance carrier.RE: IDF: Will your device really get to know you?I'm 50. I joined...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, IDF, I.D

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

62.7% of US employees choose PPO plan for their medical insurance

Consumer Driven Health Plans, or CDHPs, increased by 43% from 2007, and now comprise nearly 13% of all plans offered by employers. The%age of employees enrolled in these plans nearly doubled, from six% in 2007 to 11.2% 2008. While preferred provider organizations PPOs continue to dominate the market, representing 54%...

Tags: Employee, Insurance, Plan, HMO, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, AM

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Surviving a lightning strike: Shock and awe

Surviving a lightning strike: Shock and awe.....So what, you lost some electronics and doo dads. You and your's are alive, that's what is important. The electronics can be replaced, repaired and data recovered from back-ups I know you have them. The fact that you consider losing your electronics harmful is...

Tags: Desktops, Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, security system, lightning strike, electronics, strike

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Compliance and IT

Compliance and ITOne Small Comment[i]for the average company with three or four sites and a few thousand employees[/i]The average company doesn't have a few thousand employees. 99% of all companies are SME's.AccuracyIf I only had a dollar for every time I was told the tracking data in some system...

Tags: compliance, IT IS, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Can drugs break the chemical chain of memory? Should they?

Can drugs break the chemical chain of memory? Should they?Wow, a powerful question...Dana;Excellent question. A very thought-provoking question indeed.First, allow me to tell you a bit about myself and then I'll go from there. I suffered a nearly fatal motorcycle accident where I was left for dead. A hit and...

Tags: Talk about ignorance, addiction, addict, memory, Dana

Discussion threads 2008-08-15

Voters disconnected from their health policy reality

Voters disconnected from their health policy realityMedicare tends to keep costs downInsurance companies don't seem to worry as much as politicians when it comes to health care costs. Doctors therefore accept less for Medicare patients than they do for private insurance patients.The reason for this is that private insurance...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Health care inflation, Medicare, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-08-14

Drive Backup Express (msi)

Backing up your data is like an insurance, you never have to worry if disaster strikes. Now there's no more excuse for lost data--this insurance costs you nothing. If your system and data are safe now, keep them that way with Drive Backup 9.0 Express. This simple easy to use...

Tags: Paragon Software, Data, Backup, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance

Software downloads 2008-08-14

Fire burns for three hours at Apple HQ in Cupertino (updated 2x)

Fire burns for three hours at Apple HQ in Cupertino (updated 2x)Witness reportedseeing a fat bald guy in his 50s running from the Apple campus. When he reached the street and looked back at the fire, the witnesses said he started jumping around the street - something like a...

Tags: 3G, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

No retail channel for laptop Linux

No retail channel for laptop LinuxPlease do not forgetthat many of the reviews posted online at Wal-Mart their disatisfaction with the system.Yes these were in most cases "newbies" but the point:That unless the person is very sure of what they are buying, in the end if they dislike it, they...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, laptop computer, Linux, netbook, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

StatPlus 2008 Professional (exe)

StatPlus is easy-to-use statistical data processing software application. StatPlus has a very simple, graphical user interface that provides access to a wide range of powerful and flexible statistical tools. With StatPlus 2008, one gets a robust suite of statistics tools and graphical analysis methods that are easily accessed though a...

Tags: Data-processing, Analysis, AnalystSoft, StatPlus, Productivity

Software downloads 2008-08-12

Unique corporate service relies on good human nature

Last week I was on a call with Frank Hannigan, Managing Director of YouGetItBack.com, and quite possibly the best thing to come out of Ireland since Guinness. YouGetItBack is a lost and found company, the idea created in 2004, probably from a drunken...

Tags: phone, mobile, service, yougetitback, o2 bluebook, advertising & promotion, marketing, zack whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-11

Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?

Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?Universal not a good idea . . .Universal health care is not that good of an idea - the taxes can really kill an economy, and there's no guarantee the quality will be any better.We simply need a better idea.Remember...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Universal Health Care, health care, insurance

Discussion threads 2008-08-08

Do 4 in 5 of us want real health care reform?

The Fund called for pre-payment of premiums for everyone a form of universal insurance, set fees for procedures rather than a la carte, and more use of pay for performance (p4p). by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: health care, benefits, vertical industries, healthcare, insurance, financial planning, human resources, enterprise software, software, business operations, corporate insurance, finance, dana blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-08-08

Oracle seeks unbreakable contract

Oracle seeks unbreakable contractThats pretty much where I figure everyone is headed.Why not build on a platform that YOU control rather than build on a platform controlled by your competitor? Why would you want to build you database on Windows when MS can just make your product run more poorly...

Tags: Linux, Insurance, Financial Planning, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-07

Is it time for concierge emergency medicine?

Is it time for concierge emergency medicine?No way!How would such a facility attract "the best and the brightest" medical people? Such people want to be actively involved in treating patients because they are motivated by the challenge. Just having the latest technology is nowhere near enough. Such...

Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, payroll solutions, emergency medicine

Discussion threads 2008-08-07

HospitalGate Advanced (exe)

HospitalGate is a network and multi-user hospital Information System - HIS, electronic medical record software and hospital admission software for small-medium hospital that contain all the financial, clinical, and operational elements for a successful running medical office. HospitalGate for small-medium hospital to manage in-patient & out-patient medical record, laboratory tests,...

Tags: hospital, billing, electronic health record, insurance, medsites, hospitalgate, e-health, healthcare

Software downloads 2008-08-07

Six steps to an effective data governance program

As data governance becomes a key benchmark of a company's responsibility to enhance and protect data, here are six simple steps that start to develop a program based on individual needs. In the past few years, dozens of high-profile incidents involving data mismanagement have gained international attention. Caught off...

Tags: Data, Organization, Corporate Governance, Tools & Techniques, Pricing, Databases, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, data governance, mismanagement, Steve Alder, IBM, Special to ZDNet

News items 2008-08-06

Don't trust Google with your data

Don't trust Google with your dataNo, I don't trust Google BUT...I trust Google more than I trust me. There is a bigger chance that I'll lose my own data than Google will. I don't have the energy nor do I choose to spend the money to constantly backup all of...

Tags: Backups, cloud computing, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.

If there was one solid message to come from the opening keynotes at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, it is this: Now is the time. Illustrated through the lenses of two large, mainstream industries – financial services and health care – the first two presenters talked about ways...

Tags: Hospital, Health Care, Linux, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-05