Guidewire is empowering insurance carriers and partners with enhanced self-service capabilities on its Guidewire Cloud Platform (GWCP), enabling greater flexibility and control over development, testing, and deployment processes. This was showcased at Guidewire Connections 2025, during the Bring Your Own World to Guidewire Cloud Platform breakout session. Piotr Flasinski, Senior Group Product Manager at Guidewire, Krzysztof Szczurek, Outbound Product Manager at Guidewire, and Ashish Tomar, Principal Product Leader for Platform and Data at Guidewire, outlined a comprehensive suite of new features designed to integrate customers' existing tools and workflows seamlessly into the cloud environment.
At the heart of the initiative is the Bring-Your-Own CI/CD functionality, which allows Guidewire Cloud Platform users to leverage their existing continuous integration and deployment tools alongside Guidewire's native tooling. This concept represents a significant shift toward openness and customer autonomy.
“You can Bring-Your-Own CI/CD to enable seamless integration with customer-built management systems, code repositories, and testing pipelines,” Piotr stated, emphasising the platform's commitment to flexibility. “You are able to use a wide range of GWCP self-service capabilities that support both customers and partners," Piotr added.
The platform also introduces Bring-Your-Own Testing capabilities, empowering customers to integrate their existing testing tools into GWCP, enhancing the quality of their InsuranceSuite applications. This feature addresses a critical need for insurers who have made substantial investments in testing infrastructure and want to maintain those assets while transitioning to the cloud.
Perhaps most innovative is the introduction of fully functional virtual machines within the GWCP infrastructure that drive rapid development and higher productivity with Guidewire applications. These pre-built development environments are accessible via web browser, significantly reducing setup time for development teams.
Ashish outlined the concept of “Asteroids”, which refers to Guidewire's Platform as a Service (PaaS). The platform addresses common pain points in cloud infrastructure management, including complexity and cost, high latency, security risks, and compliance challenges. “The Asteroids provide [GWCP users] and partners a secure, scalable, and fully managed application space inside GWCP so they can focus on innovation, not infrastructure”, Ashish stated. Asteroids ensure an effortless end-to-end flow from purchase to deployment.
Collaborative partnerships were key for the success of this project. Guidewire partnered with EY, PwC, and GhostDraft to deploy their respective solutions on Asteroids - spanning testing platform, fraud detection, and forms management.
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