http://www.silicon.com Results for Norwich Union en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39415324,00.htm Norwich Union Life, part of Aviva, today confirmed that the majority of the losses will be in the areas of IT and business change.permanent roles will be cut by the end of 2009, but the insurer said that the impact on staff will be minimised by... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:33:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39401769,00.htm Back in December, Aviva - known as Norwich Union in the UK until 1 June this year - awarded a four-year contract to Hitachi Data Systems to move business critical data onto its new primary datacentre in Norwich. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:04:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39394810,00.htm Norwich Union tried using GPS tracking to offer pay-as-you go car insurance to its customers in 2006. Young drivers in Staffordshire will have their driving assessed by an in-car computer to earn discounts on their insurance. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:39:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39359894,00.htm Norwich Union has awarded a four-year contract to Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) to move business critical data to a new primary datacentre in Norwich. The data migration will take place with the system still live because the information it stores is... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:27:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39299147,00.htm Insurance giant Norwich Union launched its Pay As You Drive insurance policy back in October 2006, paying for telematics boxes to be installed in customers' cars to collect data on when, where and how their vehicles were used. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:55:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39285285,00.htm In December 2007 the FSA fined Norwich Union Life £1.26m for various shortcomings in information security and fraud prevention. As more financial services companies look to outsource core parts of their operations to external suppliers, managing... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/bpo/0,3800004865,39258581,00.htm The world's fifth largest insurance group, owner of Norwich Union, struck an eight-year deal with Indian outsourcer WNS Global Services to run its business process outsourcing operations. Insurance giant Aviva is to sell off its offshore operations... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:37:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://services.silicon.com/itoutsourcing/0,3800004871,39230406,00.htm Norwich Union is considering outsourcing some of its IT infrastructure which could affect up to 400 IT staff next year. A spokesman for Norwich Union said: "We are at the very start of the process and it will continue through to next year before we... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 23 May 2008 17:01:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39220137,00.htm The insurance company, which was formed from Norwich Union and GNU (itself the union of Commercial Union and General Accident) in 2002, will be using C&W for 72 separate services including telephony, data and IPVPN and MPLS wide area networking to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 13 May 2008 11:38:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39183833,00.htm FSA has fined insurer Norwich Union £1.26m after its lack of controls enabled fraudsters to cash in £3.3m in polices. HSBC faces possible investigation by the UK's financial watchdog after admitting losing a CD containing the details of 370,000... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:23:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39170070,00.htm The Financial Services Authority fined Norwich Union £1.26m in December for failing to manage customer-data adequately. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is for Antivirus editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:40:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/leanandgreen/0,3800014367,39169669,00.htm Financial services heavyweight Norwich Union has implemented a document automation project to make its communications with customers more understandable. Norwich Union head of delivery, Scott McFie, said the stock documents and letters sent out to... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:39:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39169481,00.htm The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Norwich Union Life £1.26m for failing to manage customer data adequately, resulting in financial crimes such as identity theft being committed against its customers. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:26:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39169285,00.htm As far back as 2003 word got out that insurer Norwich Union (NU) was working on a pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) in-car 'black box' device. Early suppliers emerged including IBM and Orange, for the telematics software and network coverage respectively... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:56:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39168814,00.htm Norwich Union's HR department has rolled out a search application to make it easier for staff to find out about employment policies themselves. The system has been so successful, Norwich Union will roll it out to its RAC subsidiary by the end of... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:00:00 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39167704,00.htm The changes mean Alex Robinson steps up from Norwich Union in the UK to become CIO for Aviva Europe. Norwich Union - the UK brand for Aviva - will get two new CIOs in the restructure. Ian Butterworth becomes CIO for Norwich Union Life and Sean Egan... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:15:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39167481,00.htm Many of those on the CIO50 attended the launch, including the CIOs of Associated Newspapers, Atkins, Avis Europe, BAA, Betfair, British Energy, Carphone Warehouse, Corus, LCH Clearnet, Norwich Union, Siemens and the UK government. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:52:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/cio2007/0,3800013886,39167057,00.htm He worked for two years at Leicestershire County Council as a programmer and then relocated to Norfolk with his family and joined Norwich Union as a systems analyst in 1989, rising to the position of IT director in 1999 and then CIO, via a spell... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:04:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/ciojury/0,3800003161,39166724,00.htm Many large businesses, such as Welsh Water and Reuters, have already made outsourcing to India a core part of their IT strategy and earlier this year Norwich Union CIO Alex Robinson told silicon.com half of the company's IT will be done in India... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:43:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/financialservices/0,3800010322,39166559,00.htm There was talk about Norwich Union at the weekend and the operations it uses in India. There have been some interesting stories knocking about on the subject of security, just recently. Somewhat overblown by the mainstream media, along the lines of... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:05:04 +0000