ConTe.it Implements Guidewire System for Underwriting, Policy Administration and Billing

ConTe.it, Italian brand of Admiral Group, and Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE: GWRE), a provider of software products to general insurers, today announced that ConTe.it has successfully deployed Guidewire PolicyCenter™ and Guidewire BillingCenter™ as its new underwriting, policy administration, and billing management system. Guidewire Core technology has been implemented across all operating units, with migration beginning at 2018 renewals.

"Our IT department has introduced Agile methodology, thanks to this project and the Guidewire team," said Paolo De Totero, IT Manager of ConTe.it. "Employing this approach, and having the ability to resolve issues on the ground, with a local, Italian-speaking Guidewire team, has definitely made for a straightforward deployment."

Guidewire Core products are enabling ConTe.it to:

• Provide an enhanced user experience, through improved navigation, more efficient workflow, and quicker response levels;

• Achieve faster development and delivery to market of new products;

• Extract and handle better quality data through revised, and improved, underwriting, policy administration, and billing processes; and

• Improve staff training environment through the ability to try out software before going into production.

"ConTe.it has an intensive development road-map for 2018, including regulatory changes, and telematics," commented Paolo De Totero, IT Manager of ConTe.it. "We are already satisfied with the capacity of Guidewire technology, and the ability of our integrated platform, to sustain our business demands. Moving forward, we will continue to keep an eye on Guidewire’s extensive, ongoing R&D activity, especially around security and cloud, with a view to future additions to, and development of, our platform."

"We congratulate ConTe.it on their successful deployment of Guidewire Core products," said Sheridon Glenn, vice president, Field Consulting, EMEA, Guidewire Software. "We admire this fast-growing and ambitious business, and their focus on offering savings as well as quality service to their clients, and look forward to our continued work together."