--- title: "Farmers Union Insurance" description: "Farmers Union Insurance offers personal insurance for farmers, ranchers, homeowners, and businesses across North Dakota and Arkansas. Learn more." url: "https://www.guidewire.com/pl/customers/success-stories/farmers-union-insurance.md" language: "pl" locale: "pl" --- # Farmers Union Insurance Farmers Union Insurance offers personal insurance for farmers, ranchers, homeowners, and businesses across North Dakota and Arkansas. Learn more. Meet Farmers Union Insurance Moving Core to the Cloud: A Winning Proposition ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/customers/aa-customer-logos---success-heros/customer-hero-logo--farmers-union--500w.jpg?h=200&iar=0&w=500) [See How They Did It](#farmers) ### Farmers Union Insurance Farmers Union Insurance ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/customers/aa-customer-quote-headshots/customer-farmers-union--mark-anderson--350x350.jpg?h=350&iar=0&w=350) We were looking for a methodology and a web-based platform that would make us current into the 21st century and easier to do business with. ## How Farmers Union Insurance Engages, Innovates, and Grows Efficiently ### Business Benefits - Improved speed-to-market by 50%–75% - Leveraged real-time access to data and analytics to make changes quickly ### The Story Incorporated in 1944, Farmers Union Insurance offers personal insurance for farmers, ranchers, homeowners, and businesses across North Dakota and Arkansas. Because the insurer relies on its captive agents, providing reliable communication and streamlined business processes to its distribution network is paramount. Constrained with limited IT resources, Farmers Union relied on a legacy core system running on a dated midrange system. As a result, the company couldn’t make necessary changes to its system and struggled to adequately communicate with its agents. The answer was simple—replace on-premises core legacy applications with an all-in-one cloud-based systems platform. “We were looking for a methodology and a web-based platform that would make us current, into the 21st century, as well as easier to do business with,” said Farmers Union CEO Mark Anderson. “We don’t market directly to our customers. We go through our captive agents, so we needed something that would be really handy for them to use to deliver our products.” Farmers Union selected Guidewire’s InsuranceNow, a set of core operations that are fully deployed, maintained, monitored, and upgraded by Guidewire. “InsuranceNow has all the modules built into it already: billing, claims, policy, processing, commissions, and integration with our general ledger,” said Branden Sorensen, Chief Business Development Officer at Farmers Union. Farmers Union wanted backing by a team of security and product experts to free the firm from routine system maintenance and give it more time to focus on its business. Deploying all modules of InsuranceNow at the same time, the insurer went live with its homeowners’, dwelling, personal watercraft, and personal umbrella products in October 2019—three months ahead of schedule and under budget. Agents and customers can now use a customer portal to see in real time what’s happening with their policies, file a claim, request a change—replacing time-consuming manual processes of the past. And agents are excited about the company’s new ability to act quickly on feedback and resolve issues in a month that might have previously taken a year. “Farmers Union’s goals for the next three to five years is that we want to be a growth company,” said Mark Anderson. “We’ve always said that if we’re not growing, we’re dying, and certainly we’ve been on a growth path. We’re going to grow. We’re going to keep competing with the national companies and providing exceptional customer service. Best of all, Guidewire will help us along the way.” ### Farmers Union Insurance: Implementing and Running a Core System with No IT Staff ### Farmers Union Insurance: Being Agile with InsuranceNow ### Farmers Union Insurance: Partnering for Growth ### Sidebar Static Links Item 01 [InsuranceNow](/pl/products/core-products/insurancenow) ## Guidewire products that made it possible ### Media Card Item 01 ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/resources/webinars/webinar-harvesting-sexpertise-farmers-union--560w.jpg?h=320&iar=0&w=560) [Watch the Webinar](https://explore.guidewire.com/c/webinar-harvesting-e?x=5qz5tf) ### Media Card Item 02 ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/resources/case-studies/cs-farmers-union-frees-itself-legacy-core-system.jpg?h=320&iar=0&w=560) [Farmers Union Insurance Frees Itself from Legacy Core System](https://explore.guidewire.com/c/farmers-union-insura?x=5qz5tf) ## Dive Deeper ## Browse More Customers ### Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting Association See Their Story ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/customers/aa-customer-logos---350w/j-q/customer-logo-mississippi-windstorm-underwiriting--350w.jpg?h=150&iar=0&w=150) [/pl/customers/success-stories/mississippi-windstorm-underwriting-association](/pl/customers/success-stories/mississippi-windstorm-underwriting-association) ### Co-Operative Insurance Companies See Their Story ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/customers/aa-customer-logos---350w/a-c/customer-logo-cooperative-insurance--350w.jpg?h=150&iar=0&w=150) [/pl/customers/success-stories/co-operative-insurance-companies](/pl/customers/success-stories/co-operative-insurance-companies) ### Union Mutual See Their Story ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/customers/aa-customer-logos---350w/t-z/customer-logo-union-mutual--350w.jpg?h=150&iar=0&w=150) [/pl/customers/success-stories/union-mutual-of-vermont](/pl/customers/success-stories/union-mutual-of-vermont) ### North Carolina Joint Underwriting Association See Their Story ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/customers/aa-customer-logos---350w/j-q/customer-logo-north-carolina-joint-underwriting--350w.jpg?h=150&iar=0&w=150) [/pl/customers/success-stories/north-carolina-joint-underwriting-association](/pl/customers/success-stories/north-carolina-joint-underwriting-association) ## Want to Learn More? 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