CIO
MARCH 13, 2023
Diversity is critical to IT performance. Diverse teams perform better, hire better talent, have more engaged members, and retain workers better than those that do not focus on diversity and inclusion, according to a 2020 report from McKinsey. Despite this, women remain widely underrepresented in IT roles. And the numbers back up this assertion, often in stark ways.
Dataversity
MARCH 13, 2023
Companies are spending a lot of money on data and analytics capabilities, creating more and more data products for people inside and outside the company. These products rely on a tangle of data pipelines, each a choreography of software executions transporting data from one place to another. As these pipelines become more complex, it’s important […] The post Data Observability vs.
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CIO
MARCH 13, 2023
By Ram Velaga, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Core Switching Group This article is a continuation of Broadcom’s blog series: 2023 Tech Trends That Transform IT. Stay tuned for future blogs that dive into the technology behind these trends from more of Broadcom’s industry-leading experts. It is clear that artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation have been growing exponentially in use—across almost everything from smart consumer devices to robotics to cybersecurity to
Alpha Sense BI
MARCH 13, 2023
It’s no surprise that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) catered to a specific type of startups, venture capitalists, and tech firms. For 40 years, SVB has provided banking services to nearly half of the country’s venture capital-backed tech and life-science companies. But in a matter of days, SVB ceased to exist—a collapse that has sent shock waves through Wall Street and Washington.
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Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.
CIO
MARCH 13, 2023
As healthcare providers emerge from the operational disruptions caused by the global pandemic, IT and business leaders are renewing their focus on “quality”– specifically, have digital investments provided quality and value for IT systems; is technology improving quality for caregivers inside facilities; and have digital transformation efforts enhanced the patient experience and the quality of care they’re receiving?
Netbasequid
MARCH 13, 2023
Social media is indispensable for advertising. And that’s because social platforms are an extension of consumers’ social lives. It’s where they go to talk with their friends, and increasingly, it’s where they go to search for new products and services. As such, brands are using this medium to engage consumers—especially when it comes to Instagram.
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Wink Intel
MARCH 13, 2023
I get to be a part of a really cool thing that the NAILBA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION does each year. **Our mission of the NAILBA Charitable Foundation is to encourage philanthropy and business, to work hand-in-hand, helping others who are at risk.** Since its beginning, the NAILBA Charitable Foundation has awarded over $3.5 million dollars in grants!! (And this is all in NAILBA communities.
CIO
MARCH 13, 2023
Signs of a tech talent shift are under way, with IT pros increasingly turning away from Silicon Valley and tech stalwarts in favor of new roles outside the technology industry. For Andreea Bodnari and Chris Jones, both of whom left Silicon Valley tech companies to work at healthcare organization Optum, the lure was not concern over mass layoffs in big tech, but the prospect of solving real-world problems and the opportunity to work on technologies that make a difference in people’s lives.
Dataversity
MARCH 13, 2023
Many organizations, when faced with the question of how to manage their workloads, ask themselves: on-premises or cloud, pitting the two against each other. But the reality is that most enterprises are operating in the world of “and,” meaning they have workloads on-prem and in the cloud – and that little three-letter word makes a world of difference.
CIO
MARCH 13, 2023
Two decades of technology-driven transformation has left many financial services firms with significant complexity and technical debt. While banking and finance organizations have aggressively moved workloads and apps to the cloud to meet changing customer needs, some remain hesitant to tackle modernization of core infrastructure and systems, fearing a disruption to the business.
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Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.
Wink Intel
MARCH 13, 2023
New York Life emerged as the big winner in a record-setting year for annuity sales with more than $23 billion in sales, according to LIMRA. The largest mutual insurer in the United States, New York Life claimed nearly a 7% market share and increased its annuity sales by 70% over 2020 – when it finished fifth in LIMRA’s rankings. Click HERE to read the full story via INN.
CIO
MARCH 13, 2023
Moving SAP workloads to the cloud promises to be transformational, but it’s not for the faint of heart. Goals for an ERP modernization initiative often range from lowering costs through infrastructure savings to adding cloud-based capabilities to ERP tasks with minimal disruption to day-to-day business. Achieving these objectives takes perceptive analysis, meticulous planning, and skillful execution.
Wink Intel
MARCH 13, 2023
The annuity industry has two gusts of wind at its back going into 2023: a higher interest rate environment and the new opportunities provided by the SECURE Act. Click HERE to read the full story via Financial Advisor The post 2022 Was Good For Annuities; 2023 Stands To Be Better appeared first on Wink.
CIO
MARCH 13, 2023
Customer Experience management company Qualtrics on Monday said private equity firm Silver Lake and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) have agreed to buy the entire company for $12.5 billion in an all-cash transaction. CPP Investments, according to a joint statement, will pay $1.75 billion in equity and another $1 billion in debt for the deal.
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Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission
Wink Intel
MARCH 13, 2023
BOSTON & TOPEKA, Kan.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–To accelerate organic growth and create hyper-relevant engagement with prospective new clients, Advisors Excel , an industry-leading financial services company, will make Catchlight available to their advisors across the U.S. Advisors Excel’s advisors will use Catchlight’s data–driven insights and proprietary artificial intelligence to better understand and prioritize their leads.
CIO
MARCH 13, 2023
Over the past two decades, cloud computing has evolved from a method that utilized extra data center capacity to the mission-critical infrastructure across enterprises that we see today. But along the way, the transformation and dramatic growth of the cloud have created increasingly complex, multi-account, and multi-region environments that can hinder, rather than accelerate, a company’s ability to deploy and manage globally connected networks.
Wink Intel
MARCH 13, 2023
Alfred Eskandar, president and COO of Salt Financial, joins InvestmentNews anchor Gregg Greenberg to talk about using annuity solutions to combat the longevity crisis, as well as Salt’s recent index projects with the Nasdaq. Click HERE to view view via InvestmentNews The post Why investors need to add annuities to their portfolio mix appeared first on Wink.
CIO
MARCH 13, 2023
Organizations that are investing in analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and other data-driven initiatives have exposed a growing challenge: a lack of integration across data sources that is limiting their ability to extract true value from these investments. It’s imperative for IT and business leaders to eliminate these data silos – some of which are operational, and some of which are cultural – to enable better insights for the business.
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
Wink Intel
MARCH 13, 2023
Senior Solutions & Services Joins Integrity for Access to Innovative Agent and Consumer-Focused Platform Integrity’s best-in-class systems and technology will empower Senior Solutions & Services agents to meet Medicare coverage needs more effectively and efficiently DALLAS – MARCH 8, 2023 – Integrity Marketing Group, LLC (“Integrity”), a leading distributor of life and health insurance, and provider of wealth management and retirement planning solutions, today announced it has acquired S
mention
MARCH 13, 2023
The checkout conversion rate is an eCommerce metric that measures the percentage of customers who start and finish the checkout process within a period. It demonstrates how successfully your website converts visitors into customers. When you focus on increasing your checkout conversion rate, you’ll make more sales without having to generate additional traffic.
Wink Intel
MARCH 13, 2023
Ameriprise Financial expects around $18 billion to move onto its balance sheet later this year under a new agreement to take over management of Comerica Bank’s broker-dealer client assets. Minneapolis-based Ameriprise announced Friday that it had been chosen by Dallas-based Comerica to provide investment services to roughly 100 Comerica financial advisors based in Texas, Michigan, California, Florida, Arizona and the Carolinas.
Wink Intel
MARCH 13, 2023
As March is Women’s History Month and we recently had International Women’s Day, we want to give a shoutout to an inspiring industry leader, our rock star CEO, Sheryl Moore. How Sheryl Moore grew into one of the life and annuity industry’s leading product experts, check out this feature article “From Stay-at-Home mom to Insurance Evangelist” page 32 here: [link] [link] The post Women’s History Month appeared first on Wink.
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Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.
Wink Intel
MARCH 13, 2023
Indexed life insurance policies continued to sell well in the fourth quarter, as sales of two other types of non-variable cash value life insurance dropped. Wink — a Des Moines, Iowa-based life and annuity market monitoring firm — published on Tuesday a new insurer survey report exploring U.S. individual life insurance sales trends. C lick HERE to read the full story via ThinkAdvisor The post Indexed Life Sales Continue to Rise appeared first on Wink.
Wink Intel
MARCH 13, 2023
The failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank of New York — two banks that began the year with solid credit ratings and good 2022 earnings — raise questions about whether other solid-looking financial services companies, such as life insurers, could be suffering from similar types of hard-to-detect problems. Life insurers have emphasized, over and over again, that writing life insurance policies and annuity contracts is much different than offering consumers instant access to the cash i
Wink Intel
MARCH 13, 2023
U.S. consumers seemed to be looking for less income from immediate income annuities in the fourth quarter of 2022, and more income from deferred income annuities, according to Cannex Financial Exchanges. The Toronto-based data services firm uses its own income annuity search data to produce quarterly shopping activity statistics. Click HERE to read the full story via ThinkAdvisor The post Income Annuity Shoppers Might Be Splitting: Cannex appeared first on Wink.
Wink Intel
MARCH 13, 2023
The administration of President Joe Biden hopes to impose federal income, estate and gift taxes on the “frozen cash value” inside some wealthy families’ life insurance arrangements. The U.S. Treasury Department described the new proposal Thursday in its “Greenbook,” or description, of the tax provisions in the administration’s 2024 budget proposal. Click HERE to read the full story via ThinkAdvisor The post Biden Hopes to Tax ‘Frozen Cash Value’ Life Contracts appeared first on Wink.
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
Wink Intel
MARCH 13, 2023
Billowing inflation has hit most of us hard over the last year. Surging prices for essential products like energy, food, and gasoline have emptied our bank accounts and put many dreams of homeownership and career advancement on hold. Click HERE to read the full story via Think Advisor The post Annuities Can Help Clients Fight Inflation appeared first on Wink.
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