Sapiens Decision Underwriting Accelerator elevates straight-through processing and reduces reliance on IT by up to 90%
ROCHELLE PARK, N.J., Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Sapiens International Corporation, (NASDAQ: SPNS) (TASE: SPNS), a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, today announced the release of Sapiens Decision Underwriting Accelerator, a cutting-edge solution designed to enhance underwriting efficiency and significantly improve straight-through processing (STP) for Property and Casualty (P&C) insurers. This innovative decisioning solution addresses key industry challenges by driving a substantial increase in STP rates, enabling insurers to optimize their underwriting processes and improve overall profitability.

Sapiens Decision Underwriting Accelerator addresses the needs of P&C insurers to streamline their underwriting processes while maintaining speed and accuracy. Sapiens’ new solution offers significant improvement in STP for high-volume underwriting cases, both for renewals and new policies. By automating complex decision-making tasks and integrating seamlessly with AI and machine learning models, the solution ensures comprehensive risk assessment, accelerating time-to-market and improving cycle times.
Sapiens Underwriting Accelerator empowers business analysts – without the need for coding expertise – to independently author, update, and test decision logic in real-time. This reduces reliance on IT resources by up to 90%, enabling quicker adjustments and optimizing operational efficiency. The solution also provides contextual, plain-language messages that eliminate the need for users to decipher cryptic codes, significantly improving the customer and agent experience.
Underwriting Accelerator also features pre-built decision flows, designed to handle the complexity of state, line of business, and company often found in regional and national carriers. These pre-configured models allow for faster deployment, reducing implementation time and costs for insurers. The solution also extracts decision logic from legacy systems to make embedded logic easy to access, update, and share, enabling insurers to avoid costly infrastructure overhauls while improving their existing underwriting processes. 
“Sapiens’ new release empowers the industry to achieve the highest levels of straight-through processing and underwriting efficiency, significantly improving profitability,” said Ilan Buganim, Chief Technology and Information Officer at Sapiens. “Sapiens Decision Underwriting Accelerator leverages no-code tools, pre-configured decision models, and a high-performance engine to enable insurers to make substantial improvements in their combined ratio within a matter of months. Looking ahead, Sapiens plans to expand its decisioning solutions with pre-packaged offerings for the mortgage industry, addressing similar underwriting challenges.”
Sapiens Decision provides end-to-end decision management capabilities from decision logic extraction from legacy code to decision modeling with no code tools, and deployment through Decision-as-a-Service. Sapiens Decision offers a technology-independent solution to fit any architecture, allowing organizations to reuse their existing infrastructure and governance models.  
About Sapiens
Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ: SPNS) (TASE: SPNS) is a global leader in intelligent insurance software solutions. With Sapiens’ robust platform, customer-driven partnerships, and rich ecosystem, insurers are empowered to future-proof their organizations with operational excellence in a rapidly changing marketplace. We help insurers harness the power of AI and advanced automation to support core solutions for property and casualty, workers’ compensation, and life insurance, including reinsurance, financial & compliance, data & analytics, digital, and decision management. Sapiens boasts a longtime global presence, serving over 600 customers in more than 30 countries with its innovative SaaS offerings. Recognized by industry experts and selected for the Microsoft Top 100 Partner program, Sapiens is committed to partnering with our customers for their entire transformation journey and is continuously innovating to ensure their success. 
For more information visit https://sapiens.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
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British victims of cybercrime report fear, anxiety and shame lasting months, and call for more support, according to research from Akamai
LONDON, Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the cloud company that powers and protects life online, today announced new research exposing the hidden mental health impact of cybercrime on the UK public, and has partnered with psychologist Dr Quinn-Cirillo to publish guidance on how to promote more supportive conversations with victims of cybercrime.

A survey of 1,002 Britons who have been a victim of cybercrime in the past year, commissioned by Akamai, reveals most are ashamed of their experience, feel they’ve done something wrong, and believe there’s an unfair stigma placed on them.
Cybercrime causes significant mental health damage
On average, cybercrime costs the victims surveyed £808. As a result, one in five struggled to pay their bills or had to cut back spending on essentials like food in the wake of the financial losses their cybercrime incurred. However, the damage cybercrime causes to mental health is less widely understood.
Nearly two-thirds of Britons said they felt traumatised by what happened to them (62%), and a majority also admitted to feelings of shame (59%) and embarrassment (67%). Over half (55%) said they continued to experience anxiety after the cybercrime, especially while using online services, and nearly one in three (29%) had trouble sleeping.
Despite this, many Britons are likely to hide the cybercrime they experienced from others. More than two-fifths (43%) said they avoided telling people about what happened to them, out of fear that they would be judged. A similar number (41%) admitted they hid the true extent of the emotional impact. Nearly two-thirds (64%) blamed themselves for what happened.
‘Cybercrime is incredibly common. And with the rise of AI, it’s becoming even more difficult to tell the difference between a genuine request from someone you know, and a scammer,” said Natalie Billingham, EMEA Managing Director, Akamai. “Cybercrime is not just a technological issue; it’s a human one. Cybercriminals prey on a victim’s vulnerability as there’s still a perception that if you’re a victim of cybercrime, you’ve done something wrong. They rely on their victims not talking about their attack. We need to stop this ‘cyberstigma’ because if we’re more understanding about cybercrime, and talk about it more, we’ll stand a better chance of fighting back against cybercriminals.”
Combatting ‘cyberstigma’
The Britons surveyed experienced a wide range of cybercrimes, including phishing (57%), identity theft (33%), phone hacking (30%), and ransomware (15%). But the majority said they couldn’t find resources and support to help them (55%), and that there needs to be more support for cybercrime victims (70%). Britons reported it took an average of ten weeks for them to feel back to normal after the cybercrime they suffered.
To address this problem, Akamai has published a new guide for dealing with the mental health impact of cybercrime, in partnership with Dr Tara Quinn-Cirillo, associate fellow of the British Psychological Society. It’s Time to Talk About Cyberstigma includes detailed advice for cybercrime victims and those close to them on how to have open discussions about cybercrime, as well as advice for the public on what steps they can take to protect themselves online.
Download It’s Time to Talk About Cyberstigma here: https://www.akamai.com/resources/ebook/akamai-cyberstigma-guide
“Cybercrime can be devastating to an individual’s mental well-being. As this research has shown, self-blame is common, and feeds into feelings of inadequacy that can be incredibly toxic,” said Dr Tara Quinn-Cirillo. “The truth is, today cybercrime can happen to anyone, and it’s so important we consider the mental health effects of this type of crime on victims. I’m proud to contribute to this important work shedding light on this under-reported issue.”
About the research
The research was conducted by Censuswide, among a sample of 1002 respondents who have been a victim of a cybercrime (in the last 12 months) in the UK. The data was collected between 23.08.2024 – 27.08.2024. Censuswide abides by and employs members of the Market Research Society and follows the MRS code of conduct and ESOMAR principles. Censuswide is also a member of the British Polling Council.
About Akamai
Akamai Security protects the applications that drive your business at every point of interaction, without compromising performance or customer experience. By leveraging the scale of our global platform and its visibility to threats, we partner with you to prevent, detect, and mitigate threats, so you can build brand trust and deliver on your vision. Learn more about Akamai’s cloud computing, security, and content delivery solutions at akamai.com and akamai.com/blog, or follow Akamai Technologies on X, formerly known as Twitter, and LinkedIn.
About Dr Tara Quinn-Cirillo
Dr Tara Quinn-Cirillo is a Chartered and HCPC Registered Counselling Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, with over 20 years’ clinical experience.
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Altair’s best-in-class consulting expertise and AI-powered engineering technology help Motivo deliver superior product designs
TROY, Mich., Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational intelligence, is proud to announce its collaboration with Motivo, a product engineering firm focused on translating forward-thinking visions into best-in-class products for clients in the mobility, energy, agriculture technology, and aerospace sectors. Motivo utilizes Altair’s unique combination of engineering consulting and software to drive innovation for organizations in the aerospace industry.

“We are delighted to collaborate with Motivo and help them advance their engineering innovations by applying leading technology and industry expertise to their process,” said Pietro Cervellera, senior vice president of aerospace and defense, Altair. “Altair has a long history of empowering customers in the aerospace sector to create safer, better, and more sustainable aircraft. Helping Motivo achieve these same outcomes for its clients is just another example that demonstrates our commitment to helping shape a more innovative aerospace sector.”
Motivo uses Altair’s leading technology portfolio to tackle complex analysis and simulation work – particularly in prototype development and testing for aerospace propulsion systems. Motivo has found success using an array of tools from the Altair® HPCWorks® and Altair® HyperWorks® platforms to meet design performance and optimization targets for next-generation subsystems and components such as propeller assemblies for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft.
“Altair’s combination of technical experience, flexibility, and powerful computational software have positioned them to be a key contributor to the success of many of our projects,” said Damon Pipenberg, chief technical officer, Motivo. “Their technology has streamlined our processes, fostered more extensive collaboration, and generally allowed us to design better products for our clients faster.”
Altair’s simulation and high-performance computing (HPC) tools enable Motivo to streamline their design and development processes and leverage true artificial intelligence (AI)-powered engineering capabilities. Motivo also leverages Altair’s unmatched consulting and technical support expertise to take their designs from concept to reality. Having unlimited 24/7 access to Altair’s wealth of technical and domain expertise – in addition to Altair’s leading software portfolio – helps Motivo meet design performance targets in areas such as stiffness, fatigue life cycle, modal frequency, safety margins, and more.
Altair gives Motivo the tools, know-how, and support needed to deliver game-changing results for their aerospace clients on time and on budget. Altair’s capabilities help Motivo perform faster and more accurate analyses, democratize access to compute resources, bolster collaboration, and harness the transformative power of AI-powered engineering workflows.
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Gardena, CA, Motivo supports a variety of clients, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 firms, in an array of industries including AgTech, mobility, aerospace, consumer electronics, energy, and autonomy. The company’s multidisciplinary team includes electrical, mechanical, controls, and software engineers that leverage a unique product development process to efficiently bring ideas from concept to production, including brainstorming sessions, rapid prototyping, in-house manufacturing, assembly, testing, and low-volume production.
To learn more about Altair’s work in the aerospace sector, visit https://altair.com/aerospace.
About Altair
Altair is a global leader in computational intelligence that provides software and cloud solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics, and AI. Altair enables organizations across all industries to compete more effectively and drive smarter decisions in an increasingly connected world – all while creating a greener, more sustainable future. To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.
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