2015 Life Insurance Conference - Sponsors and Exhibitors

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT, BPS,infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™,recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 300,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $13.4 billion for year ended March 31, 2014 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at www.tcs.com.

Diamond Sponsor

IGATE is a NASDAQ listed global leader in providing integrated technology and operations-based solutions, headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey. As a trusted partner to corporations in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, IGATE provides solutions to clients' business challenges by leveraging its technology and process capabilities, underwritten by an understanding of domain and industry imperatives. With revenues over US$ 1.1 billion, and a global employee talent capital of over 31,000, IGATE offers productized applications and platforms that provide the necessary competitive and innovation edge to clients across industries, through a combination of speed, agility and imagination.  Visit us at www.igate.com

Dell Insurance Services is a trusted provider of end-to-end business process and application solutions to the global insurance industry. We provide TPA/BPO services for over 2.5 million life and annuity policies for 30 insurers. Our domain expertise, proven platform and global delivery footprint help insurers retire legacy systems and accelerate product implementations. We also deliver a wide variety of application services including social media, business intelligence, legacy modernization and mobility solutions. Visit us a www.dell.com/insurance

Gold Sponsor

LIDP has lead the industry in providing innovative solutions for policy and contract administration for over 30 years. Our newest release, TITANIUM, is built for technicians and proven for business. With 24X7 availability, JEE portability and scalability and complete SOA enablement you can significantly reduce costs, speed and simplify the implementation of change and improve services to clients and producers. Visit us at www.lidp.com

SE2, an Eldridge Industries business, is a leader in technology-driven third-party administration services for the U.S. life and annuity insurance industry. SE2 has a proven track record in delivering platform led transformations for the life and annuity insurance industry. SE2 uniquely combines the maturity and peerless industry knowledge of its 125+ years of life insurance industry heritage with its end-to-end digital platform to enable the rapid launch of new and innovative products through existing as well as digital channels. SE2 currently administers nearly 2 million active policies on behalf of its 25+ clients. SE2 has over $100 billion in assets under administration and handles more than 200,000 new business applications annually. Please visit SE2 at https://www.SE2.com to learn more. Visit us at: https://se2.com/

Accenture is a leader in the market, helping carriers innovate and grow by applying modern new business and policy administration capabilities using the Accenture Life Insurance & Annuity Platform (ALIP) and an advanced portfolio of digital solutions, including Accenture’s Life & Annuity Analytics, available through cutting-edge cloud and shared services delivery models.

Oracle provides the modern, rules-driven flexibility insurers need to transform the way they do business. With Oracle’s comprehensive set of solutions, insurance companies can innovate to keep pace with changing demands, simplify their IT environments and transform the business into an agile, cost-effective enterprise.  Visit us at http://www.oracle.com/insurance

Captricity’s AI-powered data capture solution extracts and enhances data with 99.5% accuracy from any customer channel — including handwritten documents — and delivers it seamlessly into downstream systems and workflows. Thirteen of the top 20 US life insurers use high-quality, normalized data from Captricity to deliver business insights that increase revenue, lower costs, and drive a deeper understanding of risk. Captricity is headquartered in Oakland, CA. For more information, visit http://www.captricity.com.

From real-time generation of claims correspondence to fully automated, batch generation of policies, Cincom Systems delivers the most-intuitive Customer Communications Management (CCM) solutions in the insurance industry. By streamlining the design, deployment, delivery and management of high-volume, personalized customer communications (print and digital), Cincom has helped over 100 insurers around the world (incl. Baltimore Life, Montana State Fund, Mutual Trust Life, Everence and National Guardian Life) acquire, strengthen and expand customer relationships, minimize compliance risks, reduce operating costs and accelerate time-to-market for all their communications. For over three decades, Cincom has helped insurers deliver a better customer experience through better communications. Visit us at: https://www.cincom.com/us/

The leading institution focused on meeting the education needs of financial services professionals, the College for Financial Planning created the Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP^®) certification and has trained over 135,000 professionals. Flexible instructor-led/Web-delivered classes featuring eBooks and interactive quizzes bring the classroom to your home or office. The College also offers Professional Designations in Retirement Planning, Asset and Wealth Management, and now the LUTCF^®.  Visit us at www.cffpinfo.com

Competiscan tracks your competitors’ direct/digital marketing activity. We are a full-service, market intelligence research and insights firm. Competiscan enables our clients to study communications activity by industry, competitor, and segmentation characteristics. Media channels tracked include Direct Mail, Email, Display, Video, SEM, Print, and Social Media. Competiscan clients utilize our web-based search facility to help them understand what our longitudinal/omni-channel panels of consumers, business owners, advisors, and producers are receiving in all of the product verticals. Visit us at: https://www.competiscan.com/

Transformation is difficult. It requires a partner with flexible solutions tailored to your needs — today and in the future. Concentrix provides contemporary technology solutions and end-to-end back-offices services with visionary leadership in administration, digital, analytics, underwriting, process optimization, and self-service all backed by a Fortune 212 organization. Let us help you transform your operations, launch new products quickly and enter new markets, while optimizing your operational costs. https://www.concentrix.com/cis

Corporate Insight provides competitive intelligence, consulting and user experience research to the nation's leading insurers, financial services firms and educational institutions. For more than two decades, the firm has published customer experience-focused research and has advised clients on key competitive issues with a focus on helping them improve their digital capabilities. The firm offers subscription-based Monitor services in 14 verticals, including retirement, brokerage and life insurance, along with custom research and consulting services, digital capabilities audits, special studies and UX research. http://corporateinsight.com/

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology serves nearly 6,000 private and public sector clients across 70 countries. The company’s technology independence, global talent and extensive partner alliance combine to deliver powerful next-generation IT services and solutions. DXC Technology is recognized among the best corporate citizens globally. For more information, visit www.dxc.technology

Edgewater Insurance Consulting provides strategic solutions to insurance organizations challenged to meet the demands of both agents and clients by system constraints. In addition to our business advisory, data management and technology expertise, our Cloud Services give insurance carriers a starting point for enterprise-wide systems integration and modernization initiatives too daunting to consider in the past.  To learn about Edgewater and our insurance industry expertise, reach us at edgewater-consulting.com, 781-246-3343, or makewaves@edgewater.com.

Equisoft is a privately held company specialized in the design and delivery of advanced digital business solutions that optimize processes, increase revenue and enable growth for the life insurance and wealth management industries. All Equisoft software systems are developed for optimal scalability and configurability to empower clients. Solutions are webbased, mobile-compatible and fully customizable to meet specific business needs. The company offers innovative front-end applications, such as Equisoft/apply and Equisoft/analyze for advisors, used by thousands of advisors around the world. In addition, Equisoft is an Oracle Insurance Policy Administration for Life and Annuity (OIPA) integration partner for more than 15 insurers globally. To complete this unique offering, Equisoft brings extensive experience in insurance data migration through its subsidiary Universal Conversion Technologies (UCT). Founded in 1994, Equisoft has a growing team of nearly 400 specialized resources based in the United States, Canada, Caribbean, Chile, South Africa and India. www.equisoft.com/en

EXL is a leading operations management and analytics company that helps our clients build and grow sustainable businesses. By orchestrating our domain expertise, data, analytics and digital technology, we look deeper to design and manage agile, customer-centric operating models to improve global operations, drive profitability, enhance customer satisfaction, increase data-driven insights, and manage risk and compliance. EXL uses data and analytics to help insurers optimize customer acquisition, improve customer and broker experience, improve product underwriting and servicing experience, increase customer loyalty and improve claims experience. We understand that technological advances must work to achieve effortless, personalized, and contextualized customer interaction regardless of channel. EXL’s LifePRO® administrative digital platform supports the full customer lifecycle by providing a function-rich, configurable solution for an extremely broad range of life, health and annuity products. https://www.exlservice.com/life-annuity-insurance/

FAST Insurance Components is an award winning life and annuity solution created by industry pioneers.  Our modern and configurable solution provides a game changing way of managing products which improves speed to market, business transparency, and enables product creativity.  Customer centric design supports cross-sell, multi-policy discounts, fraud detection and account servicing.  Our offering is flexible and can be implemented as an end to end solution or as components to address a specific business needs.  Visit us at www.fasttechnology.com.

First Consulting & Administration, Inc. is a premier provider assisting the insurance industry in achieving business strategies with a focus on compliance and regulatory issues. Since 1969, First Consulting has advised and assisted companies across the country. The primary areas of practice include product development, drafting and filing; compliance consulting; third party administrator licensing; research; advertising compliance; UCAA filings; corporate governance; anti-fraud training; and, a full range of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) services including Own Risk & Solvency Assessment (ORSA) compliance tailored to insurance company needs. More information about our Co-sourcing services is available at: www.firstconsulting.com

IBU, Inc provides INSTANT EOI DECISIONS using its on line underwriting system which significantly INCREASES ENROLLMENTS while reducing the burden on the HR department. The IBU underwriting system fits into existing enrollment systems, enhancing them by moving the EOI process on line. This enables the IBU system to apply rules sets to EOI data fields enabling an instant decision on a significant percentage of employees requiring EOI. There are no large set up costs as pricing is per case. IBU also provides human underwriters an APS/Questionaire alternative phone interviews if desired. Contact Lincoln Tedeschi at ltedeschi@ibuinc.com or by phone 860-295-1190 or text 860-270-0249. www.ibuinc.com

illustrate inc is an industry leader in the provision of innovative technology solutions to insurance and financial service professionals throughout North America. Our OPUS solution set, provides fast, easy access to life insurance and financial service products harnessing today’s mobile technology, modular design and device independence. Advisors can increase their productivity by taking advantage of sales support tools like needs analysis, product quotes, basic to advanced concepts, illustrations, electronic applications and more. With clients in Canada and abroad, illustrate inc continues to evolve to anticipate and meet the changing needs of the insurance and financial services industries. www.illustrateinc.com

Insight Decision Solutions provides a comprehensive, integrated suite of business intelligence systems for insurance providing actuarial, financial and operational analytics, complete with data management and integrated applications. The wide range of embedded applications includes profitability, experience studies, IBNR, sales and marketing, reinsurance, inforce management, performance management and can integrate with predictive analytics. The generic insurance model covers all lines of business: Life, Annuities, Health, Group Benefits, Reinsurance and Property & Casualty. It can be implemented as an ongoing actuarial data warehouse integrating admin and valuation data, or as a stand-alone experience study system. The system is built on Microsoft SQL Server with Analysis Services, delivered through Microsoft Excel, deployed onsite or in the cloud, and can be integrated with enterprise BI reporting tools. The system enables companies to make faster and better decisions, provide confidence in data, and enables staff to focus on analysis rather than working in support of the data. For more information visit us at www.insightdecision.com.

Insurance Technologies is a premier provider of innovative sales and regulatory automation solutions to the insurance and financial services industries. We provide carriers and distributors a suite of integrated sales tools and experiences to better serve advisors, agents, and consumers. From pre-sale functions to quoting and illustration through e-application and e-delivery to post-sale services, our solutions provide the key sales components to create automated and cohesive sales journeys across all lines of insurance, retirement and investment products. Insurance Technologies is headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO, and is the provider of ForeSight® and FireLight® solutions. For more information, visit www.insurancetechnologies.com.

Iowa provides the ideal climate for business growth with pro-business policies and a legendary Midwestern work ethic.  Over 80 insurance companies have selected Iowa as their location for headquarters, establishing Iowa as an insurance hub with a savvy financial services labor market and an environment that is efficient, fair and responsive.   To learn more, visit our website www.iowaeconomicdevelopment.com

LexisNexis® provides solutions that help life insurers manage risks, make better decisions more quickly and with confidence. Our solutions can help reduce the time it takes to obtain critical information from days and weeks to seconds and hours. Gain valuable insight for knowing your prospects and customers through every step of the policy life cycle with cutting-edge technology, unique data and advanced scoring analytics while upholding the highest standards of security and privacy. www.lexisnexis.com/risk/life

Majesco is the Future of Insurance. We provide technology, expertise, and leadership that helps insurers modernize, innovate and connect to build the future of their business — and the industry — at speed and scale. Our platforms connect people and business to insurance in ways that are innovative, hyper-relevant, compelling and personal. Our solutions include CloudInsurer™ P&C Core Suite (Policy, Billing, Claims); CloudInsurer™ L&A and Group Core Suite (Policy, Billing, Claims); Digital1st Insurance™ that includes Digital1st eConnect™, Digital1st EcoExchange™ and Digital1st Platform™ — a native cloud, microservices and open API platform; Distribution Management, Data and Analytics and an Enterprise Data Warehouse. For more information visit: https://www.majesco.com/

Management Data, Inc. (MDI) is an employee-owned provider of policy administration software and services and has supported insurance companies and banks offering insurance products since 1982. The company is an exclusive supplier of the insurance segment, serving carriers who sell individual or group life, annuity, and health policies. Their core system FIMMAS supports all product lines including, Disability and Long Term Care, in a single implementation utilizing the synergy of cross product and client support for both Individual and Group products. FIMMAS provides all insurance functionality from a pre-sale quote through claims payments, and everything in between. For additional information please visit www.mgtdata.com.

NEOS is a recognized leader in helping global Insurance and Financial Services organizations drive transformative change. Specializing in Life, Annuities, Retirement, Employee Benefits, Property and Casualty, and Wealth Management, NEOS provides management consulting and delivery services that enable clients to solve strategy, distribution, operations, data, and technology challenges. For more information about NEOS, visit www.neosllc.com

As the 3rd largest life and annuity TPA in the U.S., NTT DATA is the insurance industry’s best kept secret. We administer more than 5 million insurance policies, with 10,000+ experienced global insurance professionals and six global BPO delivery centers. We help more than 100 insurance clients innovate and grow while reducing costs in the areas of digital transformation, application modernization, digital platforms, new product and market introductions, open and closed block outsourcing, fixed/variable annuities, claims transformation, customer and agent centricity, data and analytics, AI/ML, regulatory compliance, white hat cybersecurity services and Flux7 cloud services. Visit us at: www.nttdataservices.com/insurance

Sapiens International Corporation empowers insurers to succeed in an evolving industry. The company offers digital software platforms, solutions and services for the property & casualty; life, pension and annuity; reinsurance; financial & compliance; workers’ compensation and financial markets. With more than 35 years of experience delivering to over 500 organizations globally, Sapiens has a proven ability to satisfy customers’ core, data and digital requirements. Our portfolio includes policy administration, billing and claims; underwriting, illustration and electronic application; reinsurance; and decision management software. Sapiens’ digital suite features customer and agent portals, and an advanced analytics solution. Sapiens’ team of over 3,300 operates through our fully owned subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, EMEA and Asia Pacific. For more information: www.sapiens.com.

For a 360° BI view of your company’s internal data and performance drivers, SNL iPartners is a streamlined business intelligence platform designed specifically for insurance companies. This full service data warehouse solution enables visibility into your operations and provides accountability for your staff by integrating data from your many internal application systems. For more information, please visit us at http://ipartners.net/

Soluta builds customized software solutions that enhance operational efficiencies. With over 50 years of experience providing business process outsourcing services to the insurance industry, Soluta’s professionals live and breathe complex operations. Leveraging industry and IT expertise, our team will think critically and creatively to meet your needs. Visit www.solutahealth.com to learn more.

StoneRiver life insurance solutions are specifically designed to improve time-to-market, simplify new business acquisition and reduce operational expenses. By implementing the complete solution set, clients can achieve straight-through processing from application submission, to underwriting and case management, to issuing a claim check. Implement the life systems together or individually. Visit us at www.stoneriver.com

Founded in 1992, UCT is recognized as the only North American company dedicated to life insurance data migration. An Equisoft subsidiary, UCT is a one-stop partner and solution provider for data analysis and auditing, data cleansing, conversion, balancing and reporting. The firm specializes in complex, high-volume data conversion projects that frequently involve multiple source and target systems. UCT also offers its advanced proprietary data conversion toolset (DCA) under licensing agreements. Having successfully completed over 200 migration projects for hundreds of insurance companies and policy admin vendors, UCT has developed a unique expertise, methodology and technology stack that dramatically reduces the costs and risks associated with data migration projects. Website: www.uctcorp.com/en

UTG is an insurance holding company and a member of a billion dollar financial services organization.  Through its insurance affiliate, UTG provides servicing on a broad block of life, health, and annuity products for both internal business and provides Business Process Outsourcing support for other insurance carriers. Visit us at www.utgins.com

Venture Solutions provides print and electronic mission-critical customer communication programs for the retirement and insurance industries. Our consultative approach allows us to deliver custom, industry-leading solutions that elevate our clients above the competition and transform critical communications into an engaging customer experience. Online account management/customer service tools, client-controlled letter creation, eMail/SMS communications, eConsent preference centers and mobile apps complement our full-service variable-color print and mail solutions. With over 50 years of experience providing high-quality paper and electronic communications in highly regulated industries, Venture has the expertise and capabilities in data, print and interactive solutions to exceed your expectations. Visit www.venturesolutions.com or contact us at 1-800-728-2615.

Xpertdoc provides innovative document output and customer communications solutions to the insurance industry. Our products and services help organizations automate and streamline the processes of document output and management, reducing risks, costs and time to market. Xpertdoc's award-winning CCM platform integrates easily with core systems and fully supports modern customer engagement strategies and multichannel communications. Visit us at www.xpertdoc.com/insurance

From lead topics at many of the major CEO forums to the front page of the Wall Street Journal, the use of analytics in healthcare and insurance industry is moving towards center stage. Major companies are introducing predictive analytics rollouts and pilot programs to enhance a value and variety of healthcare and life insurance products and processes. XtLytics offers tools for broader use of analytics in the Health Insurance industry and throughout entire Life Insurance and Property Casualty (P&C) insurance organizations. Companies are starting to realize the value of data and that it is an asset. XtLytics solutions and predictive analytic tools are built to help companies to streamline processes, reduce expenses and overall make better-informed decisions throughout their business. Visit us at www.xtlytics.com