Monarch Beach, CA – (September 16, 2008) Mutual of Omaha has announced that it ranked 43 on the 2008 InformationWeek 500. The award was revealed last night at a gala awards ceremony, part of the exclusive InformationWeek 500 Conference at the St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, CA.
Mutual of Omaha broke through the top 100 for the first time for its innovative and unique use of technology. One project InformationWeek chose to highlight was Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), an identity management tool used to build and store user accounts and information. Our use of RBAC increased productivity and accuracy by allowing the company’s Identity Management team to handle an account administration transaction workload 220 percent greater than in the previous year.
“It is a honor to have our organization named as one of InformationWeek 500’s top 100,” said Mike Weekly, executive vice president at Mutual of Omaha. “Technology is directly tied to the overall success of an organization and RBAC is an excellent example of using low-cost, innovative technology to address a need and increase overall productivity.”
“For 20 years, the InformationWeek 500 has honored the most innovative users of business technology,” said InformationWeek Editor-in-Chief Rob Preston. “Year after year, InformationWeek 500 companies harness technology to improve efficiency, boost productivity, drive revenue, and establish a competitive advantage. We applaud this year’s winners, and the CIOs and other executives whose ingenuity and risk taking are at the center of business technology innovation.”
InformationWeek has identified and honored the nation’s most innovative users of information technology with its annual listing, now in its 20th year, and has tracked the technology, strategies, investments and administrative practices of America’s best-known companies. The list is unique among corporate rankings because it spotlights the power of innovation in information technology, rather than simply identifying the biggest IT spenders. Additional details on the InformationWeek 500 can be found online at www.informationweek.com/iw500/.
About Mutual of Omaha
Mutual of Omaha is a full-service, multi-line provider of insurance and financial services products for individuals, businesses and groups throughout the United States. Founded in 1909, Mutual of Omaha and its affiliate companies manage assets in excess of $18 billion.
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