Technology

Backup: If accountants and lawyers aren’t getting it right, how well are you doing?

On the back of recent research conducted by Alto Africa, a fascinating glimpse has been taken into the data backup habits of some of the most regulated industries in the country: the legal and accounting professions. What we found is that while most practitioners have some measures in place, information isn’t universally well protected - and a small percentage does nothing at all to safeguard their data.

Making sense of big data could be key for the insurance industry

STRIDE enables access to big data

With the increased roll-out of the industry data switch, STRIDE, insurers will shortly have more data at their fingertips than they ever had before. Future STRIDE and other industry initiatives will further increase the availability of data to both the insurer and broker market. How will this change the way we do business in the South African short term insurance market?

Ignition Group launches Viva Life product suite using Exergy2Go

Following its acquisition of the Resolution Life insurance license, the Ignition Group has launched the Viva Life suite of products and gone live with Exergy, the insurance administration software platform of SilverBridge, who is a provider of software solutions to the financial services industry.