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Don Goodenow
Director, Product Management, Reinsurance & Collections
StoneRiver

You know BOB. Sure you do. BOB’s been around for a long time, and I’m sure you’ve seen BOB, or a BOB look-alike a number of times. Everyone knows BOB - Best Of Breed.

BOB’s been the object of everyone’s desire: the absolute best processing component that you could ever want. Powerful and feature-rich, good old BOB was the best at his specific task. He’s been sought-after for as long as I can remember.

But BOB hasn’t had it easy. BOB didn’t always work well with others, and this has become a big problem. Being compared to that other ideal, the fully integrated suite, took its toll. In today’s world, being BOB just isn’t good enough. But neither is just being an integrated suite.

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Don Goodenow
Director, Product Management, Reinsurance & Collections
StoneRiver

It seems like you can’t turn around without bumping into someone’s new or improved SOA-based process. Platform-based, service-oriented, loosely-coupled, API-interfaced: everyone wants to be there.

That’s great. Service-oriented architecture can deliver real benefits, but let’s remember – it’s an architecture, not a solution in itself. Just like post-and-beam is an architectural style, SOA is a way to build things. So now we have new tools. The important question is the same as it has always been: what do you build with them?

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Don Goodenow
Director, Product Management, Reinsurance & Collections
StoneRiver

Ara Trembly, a respected member of the insurance technology fraternity, wrote an interesting blog post on this subject a while back. It got me thinking about just what the heck Thought Leadership is. Is it “Inspired Strategy or Tired Buzzword,” as he asks, or is it something else?

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Don Goodenow
Director, Product Management, Reinsurance & Collections
StoneRiver

My last few posts covered areas that require attention in order to comply with SOX and Model Audit Rule requirements. Here’s one more thing to think about – How do you audit system administrator or super user activities?

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Don Goodenow
Director, Product Management, Reinsurance & Collections
StoneRiver

Where we'll look at three more common system services: Workflow, Documents and Business Intelligence.

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Don Goodenow
Director, Product Management, Reinsurance & Collections
StoneRiver

In my last post we looked at three common services that can be found in an SOA-based processing suite. Today we’ll look at three more.

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Don Goodenow
Director, Product Management, Reinsurance & Collections
StoneRiver

In my last post I outlined common service elements that can be included in an SOA solution. Today we’ll look at Configuration, Financials and Party (name and address +) in more detail, and see how they can enable compliance with regulatory requirements.

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Don Goodenow
Director, Product Management, Reinsurance & Collections
StoneRiver

In my last post, I outlined how regulatory requirements have become more demanding of insurance carriers. Is this something we as software vendors should be concerned with? If so, what should we be doing about regulatory requirements?

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Don Goodenow
Director, Product Management, Reinsurance & Collections
StoneRiver

The world of audits, controls and compliance is not what it used to be. It changed dramatically in 2002 with the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX). It changed again for many insurers when the NAIC adopted a replacement of its Model Audit Rule (MAR), in June of 2006.

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