September 17, 2018 by Patti Kliegl
Patti Kliegl is an Assistant Vice President of IT and CIO in the Retirement and Income Solutions Business Unit of the Principal Financial Group. Kliegl joined the company in 1995 and has held a number of different positions within the IT organization. She was promoted to her current position in 2014 and currently has responsibility for the information technology areas that support the Annuities, Individual Investor and Principal Bank businesses at Principal Financial Group. A military brat, Kliegl has lived all over the United States as well as in Europe. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Patti was interviewed for the Novarica Update in 2018.
September 17, 2018 by Robert McIsaac
Novarica recently completed its fourth semiannual Silicon Valley Innovation Tour, an immersive series of on-site visits to accelerators, venture capital firms, as well as startups and later-stage and mature companies central to the Bay Area’s hotbed of business and technology innovation.
September 14, 2018 by Aite-Novarica Media
When choosing what direction to pursue in the data warehouse (DW)/business intelligence (BI) application, there are two distinct interrelated parts. The DW portion has its own considerations, but the structure and accessibility of the DW is heavily influenced by the BI needs. After all, the BI portion of the application is the front-facing success measurement of the application.
September 14, 2018 by Martin Higgins
My colleagues and I got together recently to discuss what we see trending in the P/C industry. Top of the list was the possible return of the core system custom build.
Once widespread, core system builds fell out of favor during the highly competitive core vendor landscape that emerged in the early 2000s. The horror stories of cost overrun and missed expectations associated with a “build it yourself” approach didn’t help the case either. For the last five years at least, buy v. build wasn’t much of a question in P/C core systems.