Technology Will Level The Playing Field

Monday, July 12th, 1999 Technology

The third major transformation of the insurance industry has begun, and over the next decade everything will change. Innovative companies will grow as they adopt new ways to boost service levels at lower costs. The mergers, acquisitions and blending of roles we’ve already seen will accelerate. Some insurers will rise to the top while others will sink to the bottom. By 2010, the business landscape will be very different. The advent of true network-based computing is driving this transformation. Using all types of networks—the Internet, intranets, extranets, LANs and WANs—network-based computing brings processing power to the point of service, anytime, anyplace.

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