Guidewire: Flexible Policy, Claims, and Billing Solutions for Property & Casualty Insurers

Alliances

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

System Integrators

BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consultancy managed and owned by its Partners throughout Europe. Serving commercial, financial and public services clients, BearingPoint focuses on offering its clients the best possible value in terms of tangible, measurable results by leveraging business and technology expertise. Our team of insurance professionals have end-to-end implementation experience for Policy Management, Claims Management and Billing. Furthermore BearingPoint has experienced and trained Guidewire professionals with experience in the US and Europe. Its seamless cross-border approach, an entrepreneurial culture, long-standing relations with reputable organisations, profound industry and functional knowledge as well as solutions customised to clients specific needs make the company a truly trusted adviser. BearingPoint has European roots, but operates with a global reach.

Capgemini is a leading Global Guidewire Integrator with unparalleled accelerators, tools, and methodologies that provide end-to-end solutions from strategy to implementation and application-maintenance support. We have an unparalleled track record in the delivery of underwriting transformation and policy administration and claim programs. Based on our extensive experience, global delivery model and Guidewire COE, we are uniquely qualified to collaboratively drive transformation with a focus on risk mitigation, quality, speed and value. We have unmatched GW accelerators built around Testing, Reporting and Analytics, Conversions, Upgrades, Integration and Configuration.

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 Servicesoffers 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.

PricewaterhouseCoopers provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services. More than 155,000 people in 153 countries across our network share their experience to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice. We serve approximately 90 percent of the insurers in the Fortune 1000, and have extensive insight into client and industry issues.

Professional Services

Adaptra provides IT Project Management and Guidewire Application Implementation services to the Insurance sector across the Asia Pacific region. Adaptra's suite of Guidewire services includes: Guidewire Assessment Services, Guidewire Consultancy Services, Guidewire Project Resources, and Agile Project Managers. Adaptra is focused on outcomes. Whatever your project needs, you need to know that your project plans will be realised as quickly as possible and that you have control over your discretionary spend. This is where Adaptra can help. Australian owned and operated, our focus on the effective execution of projects in line with our client's strategic vision makes us the nation's leading provider of project management solutions.

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, leveraging an extensive offshore infrastructure and its network of offices in 18 locations across the US, EU and Asia.

HCL runs a Center of Excellence for Guidewire product implementation and has successfully completed a number of installations.

Technology Alliances

AgencyPort is the leading provider of web-based solutions designed specifically for property and casualty insurers. Our agency portal and interface products make it easy for agents to transact business, enhance the underwriting process and extend the life of a carrier's existing policy administration systems. The result is a maximum increase in process efficiency for both carriers and agents.

CGI is a global information technology and business process services provider with more than 25,000 professionals using technology to help clients address their business challenges. CGI's Ratabase is a comprehensive set of tools that empowers business professionals to build, design, and deploy insurance rating for products in the fastest possible time. Ratabase is successfully implemented in more than 100 insurance organizations, allowing them to create different and unique product plans. It is deployed on a variety of platforms, facilitating integration into virtually any systems with broad processing requirements and distributed architectures.

Recognized by Forrester and Celent as the leading enterprise document automation solution, HP Exstream is a single software solution for creating and delivering policies, bills, statements, correspondence, quotes and proposals. With seven of the top 10 Fortune 500 insurers using HP Exstream, it is easy to see why the software has been an industry leader for more than 10 years. Insurers can significantly reduce communication costs and enhance customer experience with our proven solution. Visit www.hpexstream.com for more information.

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.

Thunderhead enables insurers to streamline the creation and delivery of personalized, multi-channel customer and agent communications. With a modern architecture built to support ACORD XML and other open standards, the Thunderhead NOW platform integrates with your core systems to automate virtually every area of customer interaction - from policies and statements to claims correspondence. Visit www.thunderhead.com.

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.

Ward Group is a consulting firm specializing in the insurance industry and the leading provider of industry benchmarking and best practices services. Ward Group analyzes staff levels and expenses for all areas of insurance company operations. The firm’s professional staff is uniquely qualified to help companies to measure results, optimize performance and be more profitable. For more information, visit www.wardinc.com.