Archive for 'SaaS/Cloud Computing' Category
Cloud Computing and ESCROW – luxury or requirement??
Software as a Service (SaaS), a form of cloud computing, is increasingly commonly used especially now in the insurance sector – Unirisx should know, we’ve now almost reached our tenth anniversary in running Unirisx as a Cloud service! However this is also the trend across the whole financial services sector according to NCC Group, the [...]
Microsoft Joins The Cloud!
An interesting article caught our attention — Microsoft is joining the World of Cloud Computing. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, said in an e-mail to all employees “…..Today, nearly every one of our products has, or is developing, features or services that support the Cloud.”
That’s a big announcement, given Microsoft’s market reach, marketing muscle and [...]
Two Go-Lives in Two Weeks…WHEW!
Like most of us here at Unirisx, I’ve been developing and delivering software to insurance companies for a pretty long time. Ask my kids and they’ll say it goes back to before the age of dinosaurs (but then kids always think their parents are old). If there’s one thing I’ve learned from all these years [...]
Full Service or Partial Service?
Policy administration systems and their respective vendors have been at the core of the P&C industry for years. Some have been shooting stars that are here today, gone tomorrow because they’re designed by technologists with little “real world” insurance industry experience; others have staying power but also have significant limitations imposed by their design and [...]
See article where Dave Hollander is quoted in Insurance & Technology.
“Hollander argues that early vendor adopters of SaaS, including Unirisx, have accumulated sufficient history to demonstarte the security of their solutions. He claims that Unirisx has supplied SaaS-delivered policy processing to 17 clients across 19 countires since 2004 and is yet to have an SLA issue.
“The real answer lies in well-architected application software solutions that run in a well-managed hardware/software hosting facility and are actively monitored by carrier personnel.”
Software-as-a-Service as Next-Gen Business Platform
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is undergoing a fundamental shift in how software is acquired, used and paid for. Emerging SaaS models and offerings are taking the SaaS concept far beyond first-generation application functionality and deployment, and into mission-critical business operations for large and small firms. And contrary to conventional wisdom, the smallest firms are the most likely [...]
Some Notes on Defining Cloud Computing
There seems to be some key attributes that describe cloud computing. The challenge is they overlap with other computing definitions, so maintaining distinction and how this overlap is helpful in solving other computing problems is important.
Some key attributes that apply to cloud computing based on the industry’s use Circa 2007:
*Certainly Internet-based and very network centric [...]
