Reasons to Purchase *Validate your marketing messaging and positioning in the insurance industry *Compare insurance IT purchasing plans across geographies *Identify

Reasons to Purchase *Validate your marketing messaging and positioning in the insurance industry *Compare insurance IT purchasing plans across geographies *Identify emerging areas of concern for insurers. BPO is the least utilized sourcing option, even though BPOhas gained momentum since the last Datamonitor survey. Thisshould reverse in 2010, but spending will still be relatively weak IT budgetsin Asia Pacific will be stable from 2009 to 2010 Internal spend has fallen from previous years. In Datamonitor’s 2008 survey,internal spend accounted for 43% and 42% of life and non-life spend,respectively.

This year’s survey revealed that internal spend fell below 40% atboth life and non-life insurers. Specialist outsourcers and technology vendorstook a larger share of wallet in 2009. Overall, application-based outsourcing is more widely deployed thaninfrastructure-based. *Respondents included IT decision-makers such as CIOs and CTOs.

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