Guidewire®

Alliances

Guidewire has established partnerships with world-class technology and system integrators that enhance the value of our products.

System Integrators BearingPoint Capgemini Deloitte Russia IBM Professional Services CastleBay Consulting HCL Technologies Business Partners AAIS ISO

Technology Alliances BEA Exstream Software ImageRight Inetsoft Metropolitan Reporting Bureau Oracle ROES Skywire Software

System Integrators

BearingPoint's experienced team of management and technology consultants have built a reputation for knowing what it takes to help businesses achieve their goals. Never satisfied with the latest management theory or off-the-shelf solution, our practical and direct approach to problem solving is always driven by the needs and timetables of our clients. From strategy through execution we help clients make the right decisions and then work closely with them to get it done.

BearingPoint was the first Guidewire Alliances partner to successfully lead an implementation of a Guidewire ClaimCenter project at CompWest Insurance.

Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through technologies. Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of working, called the "Collaborative Business Experience".

Deloitte Russia is one of Russia's leading professional services firms, providing audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services. Deloitte Russia's goal and strategy is to build the premier national professional services firm in the CIS, to provide a full range of services to our international clients, and to develop a dynamic practice to serve national clients.

   
IBM Global Business Services offers integrated, innovative strategy and change solutions in Business strategy consulting, Operations strategy, Technology strategy, and Organization change strategy. Guidewire is an optimized member of the IBM PartnerWorld Insurance Industry Network. Guidewire solutions support a wide range of IBM hardware and software platforms including pSeries and xSeries server families, the AIX server operating system, and WebSphere Application Server.

IBM GBS was the first Guidewire Alliances partner outside of North America to successfully lead an implementation of a Guidewire ClaimCenter project at the Earthquake Commission of New Zealand. IBM Hosting is also involved in the EQC implementation, hosting and managing ClaimCenter off-site on IBM servers for them.

Professional Services

CastleBay Consulting provides best in class software acquisition; program, project and quality management; and integration services to the P&C market. CastleBay's value proposition is based on deep insurance domain expertise, complex technology project experience and reuse of Intellectual Capital assets.

HCL Technologies is a leading global IT Services company, providing software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management services and BPO. HCL Technologies focuses on working with clients in areas that impact and re-define how they manage core aspects of their business. HCL leverages an extensive offshore infrastructure and its network of offices in 18 locations across the US, EU and Asia to deliver solutions across select verticals including Financial Services, Retail & Consumer, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Hi-Tech & Manufacturing, Telecom and Media & Entertainment. For the quarter ending 31st March 2008, HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries had last twelve months (LTM) revenue of USD $ 1.8 B, and employed 49,802 IT and business professionals.

HCL, a Guidewire implementation partner, runs a Center of Excellence for Guidewire product implementation and has successfully completed a number of installations. HCL is committed to continuous improvements and as part of that program, HCL has invested in project accelerators that are focused on the five critical implementation success factors - Configuration, Data Conversion, Integration, Business Analytics/Reporting and Testing. HCL can leverage its global delivery model to reduce the risk, time and cost of your Guidewire product implementations.

Technology Alliances

Guidewire is part of BEA's partner network. We work with BEA to ensure that our products are optimized on BEA's Weblogic platform.

The combination of Exstream’s market-leading Dialogue enterprise personalization solution and Guidewire’s comprehensive policy administration software will give insurance companies the ability to streamline policy administration processes, reduce production costs, and enhance the quality of their customer communications.

The ImageRight and Guidewire combination leverages the existing capabilities of insurance industry leading solutions for document and claims management. ImageRight provides robust document management, rendering, and storage capabilities; enabling insurers to manage documents in any format, from any source. Guidewire ClaimCenter is an advanced web-based claims process management system that uses flexible business rules to manage the end-to-end claim process and improve claim outcomes.

With InetSoft's Style Report, Guidewire is able to provide our customers with additional advanced business reporting tools to analyze data and make better business decisions. The integration of Style Report™ software builds on Guidewire's existing dashboard and reporting capabilities with additional options for flexible reporting. Together the solutions provide better decision support for insurance carriers.

Since 1957, Metropolitan Reporting Bureau (MRB) has specialized in delivering police reports, fire reports, and public records nationwide for the insurance and fleet claims industries. As a result of the MRB/Guidewire alliance, Guidewire ClaimCenter clients can now leverage MRB's expertise and value-added services to easily order public safety reports at any point during the life of the claim.  By fully integrating with ClaimCenter and automating much of the report ordering, completion, and tracking processes, insurers benefit from enhanced claims adjusting procedures, lower claim costs, and improved customer service.

Guidewire is part of Oracle's partner network.  We work with Oracle to ensure that our products are optimized on Oracle's solutions.

With the Guidewire and ROES solution, workers' compensation insurers, using Guidewire ClaimCenter, can electronically file state-mandated claim reports. The reports are submitted to the states through WorkComp.NET, an EDI clearinghouse managed by Red Oak E-Commerce Solutions.

Through partnership with Skywire Software, Guidewire is able to provide customers with an easy-to-use Web-based rating and rules system for all lines of business. Skywire Software's InsBridge™ helps carriers manage complex, company-specific rating processes, analyze the impact of rating and underwriting changes, deploy logic in a disciplined and consistent manner, and make results available to Guidewire PolicyCenter® users.

Business Partners

AAIS is an insurance advisory organization that maintains more than 20 complete standardized programs of forms and manuals for personal, commercial, inland marine, and farm/ag lines. Support services that help companies implement and maintain programs include actuarial analysis, product customization, filings and compliance, statistical reporting, and more.

ISO is a leading source of information about risk. The company provides data, analytics, and decision-support services to professionals in insurance and many other fields. Customers use ISO's information to classify and evaluate risk and detect potential fraud. In the United States and around the world, ISO helps customers protect people, property, and financial assets.