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Visual Analytics - Seeing Is Believing

By Andre Meyer |June 10, 2020|English | Français | Español

“The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.” This quote from the mathematician Richard W. Hamming resonates today because the challenges around understanding and analysing huge amounts of data have grown significantly over the last...
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Life and Health in Asia - What Are O2O Services and Why Are They Important to Insurers?

By Orchis Li |June 02, 2020|English

In case the term “O2O” is unfamiliar, it means online-to-offline, or offline-to-online, and describes the two-way flow between online discovery and actual commerce in the real world. Those of us who have been working in the insurance industry...
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COVID-19 Is Clearly Demonstrating How Digital Health Solutions, Like TrackActive, Can Make a Difference

By Tasneem Harnekar|May 14, 2020|English

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing consumer behaviour and we are all having to find ways to adjust. Significant delays to routine medical examinations, screenings and doctor confirmations due to overstretched healthcare networks and social distancing...
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Antibody Tests for COVID-19 - Are They the Answer Insurers Have Been Searching For?

By Nabaneeta Sirkar and Dr. Thomas Ashley |April 28, 2020|English

The novel corona virus-affected world has been inundated with medical testing and related published data like never before. The volume and nature of testing has evolved significantly in the last few weeks. Antibody tests, which reveal whether a person...
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Working From Home? Don’t Let Cyber Criminals Break In

By John Connors|April 16, 2020|English | Chinese

As companies around the world operate on a recommended work-from-home basis, or with their offices closed entirely, most organizations have more people working at home than at any time in their histories. People with limited to no work-from-home experience...
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Ecosystems - The Third Leg for Insurance Distribution in Asia

By Tuan Miang Chua |March 17, 2020|English

When bancassurance came to Asia 20 years ago there were many in the industry who believed it wouldn’t work. History was clearly on the side of the innovators. Over the last few years, we have seen the innovation of ecosystem models and the parallels...
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