About Our Reporting
Our sustainability reporting on this website discusses our sustainability efforts and generally covers the fiscal year ended July 31, 2025 for social and governance performance metrics and narrative disclosures and fiscal year ended July 31, 2024 for environmental performance metrics and narrative disclosures, unless otherwise noted.1 Social, governance, and environmental performance metrics and narrative disclosures may extend beyond these periods where relevant to our sustainability strategy and ongoing initiatives. We anticipate updating the website as various additional relevant information becomes available, providing information in near real time as opposed to one annual update. This website reflects our global performance, including our wholly owned subsidiaries. Any variances from this approach are noted directly on this website.
Reporting Guidelines
We anticipate updating information on this website as it becomes available, and have developed such information in the context of: (1) the Global Reporting Initiative (“GRI”) Universal Standards, which focus on key risks significant to us and our stakeholders; (2) the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (“TCFD”) recommendations 2; and (3) Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (“SASB”) Standards, now part of IFRS Foundation, Software and IT Services Sustainability Accounting Standard, Version 2023-12. Please see the GRI, TCFD, and SASB indices in the Appendix on this website for cross-references and a map of applicable performance metrics and narrative disclosures from this website to each framework.
As standards, frameworks, and regulations evolve, we will seek to continue to align our sustainability reporting with regulations and best industry practices.
To the extent updates to this Corporate Sustainability website are updated prior to the filing of that year’s proxy statement, we will update references to that Proxy Statement in the GRI, SASB, and TCFD indices in the Appendix available on this website once the applicable Proxy Statement is filed with the SEC, generally around late October in any given year.
We retained a third-party external assurance provider, Apex Companies (“Apex”), to provide limited assurance of our fiscal year 2022-2024 Scope 1, 2, and 3 3 greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions included on this website 4. The environmental, governance, people, and corporate citizenship data presented in the data tables, indices, and narrative disclosures on this website were internally audited.
Cautionary Language
Unless the context requires otherwise, we are referring to Guidewire Software, Inc. together with its subsidiaries when we use the terms “Guidewire,” the “Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us.” When using the term “products,” we are generally referring to both our subscription services and term license software.
Cautionary Language Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
The statements, estimates, projections, guidance, and/or outlook contained in our Fiscal Year 2025 Guidewire Corporate Sustainability website (this “website”) include “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date they were first published and were based on then-current expectations, estimates, forecasts, and projections as well as the beliefs and assumptions of management. Words such as “expect,” “anticipate,” “should,” “believe,” “hope,” “want,” “strive,” “aim,” “target,” “commitment,” “anticipate,” “project,” “goals,” “estimate,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “continue,” “contemplate,” “possible,” “may,” “will,” “might,” “could,” “would,” “intend,” “seek,” and variations of these terms or the negative of these terms and similar expressions are intended to identify these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which involve factors or circumstances that are beyond our control, including, but not limited to, risks detailed in our most recent reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) as well as other documents that may be filed by us from time to time with the SEC. In particular, the following factors, among others, could cause results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements: the risk of retaining and hiring sufficient employees; the challenges of international operations and growing our business; unexpected delays, difficulties, and expenses in executing against, internal controls and processes that continue to evolve, methodologies for measuring data that are still evolving and subject to change, cybersecurity effectiveness, or changes in laws, enforcement, investor sentiment or demands, or litigation, relating to or otherwise affecting the execution of, our environmental, climate, inclusion, or other sustainability targets, goals, and commitments outlined on our website; and other risks and uncertainties. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.
The information and opinions contained on this website are based on information available to us as of the date it was posted, and are subject to change without notice. We do not undertake, and expressly disclaim, any obligation to update or revise any such information or statements. Our commitments, targets, aims and goals may change over time for many reasons, such as the evolving and changing nature of, or availability of, standards, changes to our business as well as changes in business priorities and stakeholder significance, new industry practices, technology or science, or changes to law or regulatory guidance. Moreover, while we reference various third-party standards in making our disclosures, we cannot guarantee (and any language of “alignment” or similar should not be taken to mean) complete adherence to such standards or any particular stakeholder’s interpretation thereof.
While information presented on this website has been subject to internal review processes and control, much of this information is subject to assumptions, estimates, third-party information, or methodologies that are still evolving and subject to change. Similarly, various aspects of this website are based on policies and procedures that the we believe apply appropriate levels of support to address issues in scope and, while these statements may use words such as “ensure,” “prevent,” or similar language, such terms should not be considered to mean (as there can be no guarantee) that such efforts will be successful in all situations.
Materiality Disclaimer
This website contains statements based on hypothetical scenarios and assumptions as well as estimates that are subject to a high level of uncertainty, and these statements should not necessarily be viewed as being representative of current or actual risk or performance, or forecasts of expected risk or performance. In addition, historical, current, and forward-looking environmental and social-related statements may be based on standards for measuring progress that are still developing and on internal controls and processes that continue to evolve. While certain matters discussed on this website may be significant, any significance should not be taken, or otherwise assumed, as necessarily rising to the level of materiality used for purposes of complying with our public company reporting obligations pursuant to the U.S. federal securities laws and regulations or other reporting obligations, even if we use the words “material” or “materiality” in this report.
No Incorporation by Reference
This website, which constitutes our Fiscal Year 2025 Guidewire Corporate Sustainability Report, includes references and links to other company reports, public filings, and resources. These references are provided for convenience only and the referenced documents should be read in their entirety. They are not incorporated by reference into this website.
This website is not intended to be incorporated by reference into any of our filings with the SEC, unless specifically stated otherwise.