Thursday | 8 January, 2009

Stories about: Allstate

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    Tibco entering hardware space 01/05/2008 08:29:45

    Tibco Software is set to make a play in the computer hardware space, readying its Tibco Messaging Appliance for ultra-low-latency messaging deployments.
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    Books that can change your life 23/01/2008 10:54:47

    Andrew Galbus was a programmer/analyst at a food manufacturing company in the mid-1990s when he read Edward Yourdon's Decline and Fall of the American Programmer. Galbus says the book made him realize that his employer was not helping him build a sustainable career in the IT sector. "It made me think, 'Do I want a job or a career, and do I want just a career in a company or a career in the IT industry?'" Galbus says.
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    Vista power consumption reduced with new product 30/10/2007 06:15:24

    Technology for reducing the energy consumption of computers running Windows Vista is hitting the market, with a product from power-management software vendor 1E that centralizes and automates the PC shutdown process.
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    Network performance vital to insurer's success 05/09/2007 10:57:37

    In the pressure-cooker global economy, U.S. regional insurance companies face particularly heavy pressure. Operating in the shadow of giants like The Prudential, Aetna and Allstate, they survive by the rule "grow or die" in constant fear of a shakeout that could see them gobbled up by their larger competitors. And because most sell through independent agents, who represent multiple competing insurers, they are in direct competition for every sale.
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    A new context for data protection 27/06/2007 16:33:40

    Experts gathered for the ongoing InfoWorld Enterprise Data Protection Forum in New York Tuesday said that companies need to get a better handle on all the factors that make their sensitive information susceptible to attack and become more proactive with their overall defensive strategies if they are to improve on their current security status.
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    Where does the time go? 23/04/2007 12:03:25

    When John Halamka first became the CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston in 1998, he was told that being an IT chief was a 9-to-5 job. He quickly discovered that they had it backward. "It turned into a 5-to-9 job," says Halamka, meaning 5 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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    Squeezing dollars from maintenance 21/12/2006 14:11:27

    It's a conundrum many IT executives face: how to drive down spending on IT maintenance and operations to free up capital for discretionary IT-business projects.
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    Getting help to those in need faster 18/09/2006 16:16:25

    At Allstate Insurance, business intelligence technology must prove itself every time a hurricane blows through Florida or wreaks havoc elsewhere in the U.S.
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    U.S. 100 Best Places to Work in IT 2006 10/09/2006 14:17:36

    Willy Anderson remembers the day he realized the human impact of the work he does at Allstate Insurance. When he started as an intern at the insurance giant at the age of 19, Anderson was responsible for maintaining the company's claims loss reporting system. As part of that job, he listened in on a call that the claim center received from a woman who had just been in a car accident.
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    Squeezing IT dollars from maintenance 02/08/2006 10:26:38

    It's a conundrum many IT executives face: how to drive down spending on IT maintenance and operations to free up capital for discretionary IT-business projects.
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    How to build a vendor scorecard 21/06/2006 09:58:09

    Whether new to a company or making a list of your suppliers based on their performance and importance to you, a scorecard will not only help but will be a record to share with colleagues.
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