--- title: "Mountain West Farm Bureau" description: "Mountain West transforms its legacy system, moves to the cloud, and quickly redesigns its product offerings. Learn more." url: "https://www.guidewire.com/pt/customers/success-stories/mountain-west-farm-bureau.md" language: "pt" locale: "pt" --- # Mountain West Farm Bureau Mountain West transforms its legacy system, moves to the cloud, and quickly redesigns its product offerings. Learn more. Meet Mountain West Farm Bureau Quickly Redesigns Product Offerings ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/customers/aa-customer-logos---success-heros/customer-hero-logo--mountain-west-farm-bureau--500w.jpg?h=200&iar=0&w=500) [See How They Did It](#mountain) 2 ### The Challenge As part of its digital transformation strategy, Mountain West Farm Bureau needed a solution that would allow the insurer to consolidate multiple legacy systems into a new, modern platform. ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/customers/customer-details-static-icons-and-images/the-challenge-icon.png?h=59&iar=0&w=54) ### The Solution InsuranceSuite on Guidewire Cloud, as well as Guidewire Analytics, has allowed Mountain West to move fast on designing and redesigning products, improve straight-through processing, elevate the customer and agent experience, improve the loss ratio, and gain actionable insights into data. ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/customers/customer-details-static-icons-and-images/the-solution-icon.png?h=57&iar=0&w=57) ## Accomplishments That Count ### 8 TOOK 8 WEEKS TO REDESIGN ITS PERSONAL LINES BOOK OF BUSINESS ### 120 TOOK 120 DAYS TO DEVELOP FIVE PERSONAL LINES OF BUSINESS ON GUIDEWIRE CLOUD ### 80% WITH DATA STUDIO AND EXPLORE, ACTUARIES SPEND 80% OF THEIR TIME ON ACTUARIAL WORK AND ONLY 20% ON DATA ### Mountain West Farm Bureau Mountain West Farm Bureau ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/customers/aa-customer-quote-headshots/427x410-customer-quote--mwfb--tim-hays.jpg?h=410&iar=0&w=427) The cloud product — especially the power of the cloud infrastructure in terms of speed and capabilities — is a force-multiplier. The ability to spin up environments at speeds that weren’t possible prior to this is, quite frankly, a game-changer for everyone. ## How Mountain West Engages, Innovates, and Grows Efficiently ### Business Benefits - Redesigned five personal lines of business in eight weeks - Developed five personal lines of business on the cloud in 120 days - Experienced updates in a matter of days versus months - Trimmed time to complete policy changes to minutes instead of days ### The Story Mountain West Farm Bureau was initially founded by the Wyoming Farm Bureau in 1948 and joined by the Montana Farm Bureau in 1958. Currently, the company offers multi-line insurance products to individuals, families, and small businesses throughout Wyoming and Montana, and in Colorado through a wholly owned company – 360 Insurance. In June 2021, Mountain West turned to Guidewire to replace its legacy systems. The company subscribed to [InsuranceSuite](/pt/products/core-products/insurancesuite)on [Guidewire Cloud](/pt/products/technology/guidewire-cloud). Soon after making that decision, the insurer realized that speed would be a big part of its story. “The cloud product — especially the power of the cloud infrastructure in terms of speed and capabilities — is a force-multiplier,” says Tim Hays, Vice President and Chief Information Officer. He adds, “The ability to spin up environments at speeds that weren’t possible prior to this is, quite frankly, a game changer for everyone.” 
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 ### Updates Take Days, Not Months - Mountain West Farm Bureau Insurance 
 Mountain West Farm Bureau shares how updates on Guidewire Cloud helps the insurer innovate. It only took Mountain West 120 days to go live with five personal lines of business in one state. Mountain West also praises [Guidewire’s Advanced Product Designer (APD)](https://developer.guidewire.com/advanced-product-designer/?_gl=1*fiwb3e*_gcl_au*MjA3OTQxNjU1Ni4xNzE3MTg3MTgw*_ga*MTIzMjgzNTI5My4xNzE1OTAzNTY5*_ga_LN5WM89V7V*MTcxODcyMTIxOC44Ny4xLjE3MTg3MjU2MzYuNjAuMC4w) for how quickly they were able to redesign those lines of business. With APD, it took only eight weeks to redesign the entire book of business for personal lines, which included auto, property, umbrella, inland marine, and personal and farm liability. 
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 ### A Story of Speed With Advanced Product Designer - Mountain West Farm Bureau Insurance 
 Mountain West Farm Bureau shares how APD helps it better serve customers. Mountain West has also taken advantage of [Guidewire Analytics](/pt/products/analytics) and Digital products. The insurer has been a longtime [Predict](/pt/products/analytics/predict)customer. In the first four years after adopting Predict for loss ratio modeling in the personal auto line, Mountain West saw approximately a 20% growth in written premium. Crediting Predict, the insurer is now writing more profitable business because of the adjustments made to premiums as a direct result of the modeling. Mountain West is also using [Explore](/pt/products/analytics/explore) for [BillingCenter](/pt/products/core-products/insurancesuite/billingcenter-insurance-billing-software). ### Mountain West Farm Bureau Mountain West Farm Bureau ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/customers/aa-customer-quote-headshots/customer-mountain-west-daniel-sorensen--660w.jpg?h=528&iar=0&w=660) Building an Explore dashboard is one of the easiest things I’ve done. Prior to Explore, the process for us to get actionable insights out of our data would have taken a month to figure out. Mountain West is using Data Studio in tandem with Explore. This enables the insurer to feed data into Data Studio where it can be used to build operational dashboards through Explore. 
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 ### Building Dashboards with Explore Mountain West Farm Bureau takes advantage of Guidewire ProducerEngage to help agents work more efficiently. With ProducerEngage, Mountain West has been able to give their agents direct access to quote business, make changes to existing policies in near real-time, and submit policies and applications. This has dropped the times to make policy changes from days to just minutes. 
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 ### Crafting a Better Agent Experience - Mountain West Farm Bureau Mountain West Farm Bureau takes advantage of Guidewire ProducerEngage to help agents work more efficiently. ### Sidebar Static Links Item 02 [BillingCenter](/pt/products/core-products/insurancesuite/billingcenter-insurance-billing-software) ### Sidebar Static Links Item 03 [ClaimCenter](/pt/products/core-products/insurancesuite/claimcenter-claims-management-software) ### Sidebar Static Links Item 01 [PolicyCenter](/pt/products/core-products/insurancesuite/policycenter-insurance-policy-administration) ### Sidebar Static Links Item 04 [Guidewire Cloud](/pt/products/technology/guidewire-cloud) ### Sidebar Static Links Item 05 [Predict](/pt/products/analytics/predict) ### Sidebar Static Links Item 06 [Explore](/pt/products/analytics/explore) ## Guidewire products that made it possible ### Media Card Item 01 ![cover - Mountain West quickly redesigns product offerings](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/project/guidewire/guidewire/case-studies/thumbnails/case-study-image-mw-quickly-redesigns-560w.jpeg?h=320&iar=0&w=560) [Download Case Study](https://explore.guidewire.com/c/mountain-west-quickly-redesigns-product-offerings?x=Cn4K2h) ### Media Card Item 02 ![cover - Guidewire Predict - Mountain West Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company Improves Auto Underwriting Profitability](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/project/guidewire/guidewire/case-studies/thumbnails/case-study-image-predict-mountain-west-farm-bureau.jpeg?h=320&iar=0&w=560) [Download Case Study](https://explore.guidewire.com/c/cs-mtnwest-pa?x=Cn4K2h) ### Media Card Item 03 ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/project/guidewire/guidewire/ebooks/thumbnails/ebook-image-guidewire-analytics.png?h=320&iar=0&w=560) [Download eBook](https://explore.guidewire.com/c/guidewire-analytics-ebook-2022?x=Cn4K2h) ## Dive Deeper ## Browse More Customers ### Aioi Nissay Dowa See Their Story ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/customers/aa-customer-logos---350w/a-c/customer-logo-aioi-nz--350w.jpg?h=150&iar=0&w=150) [/pt/customers/success-stories/aioi-new-zealand](/pt/customers/success-stories/aioi-new-zealand) ### Gore Mutual Insurance Company See Their Story ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/customers/aa-customer-logos---350w/d-i/customer-logo-gore-mutual--350w.jpg?h=150&iar=0&w=150) [/pt/customers/success-stories/gore-mutual-insurance-company](/pt/customers/success-stories/gore-mutual-insurance-company) ### Grinnell Mutual See Their Story ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/customers/aa-customer-logos---350w/d-i/customer-logo-grinnell-mutual--350w.jpg?h=150&iar=0&w=150) [/pt/customers/success-stories/grinnell-mutual](/pt/customers/success-stories/grinnell-mutual) ### MACIF See Their Story ![](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/guidewiresodb06-guidewire0f2e-productioncd91-5186/media/images/customers/aa-customer-logos---350w/j-q/customer-logo-macif--350w.jpg?h=150&iar=0&w=150) [/pt/customers/success-stories/macif](/pt/customers/success-stories/macif) ## Want to Learn More? Request a call, schedule a demo, or ask us a question.