Guidewire and PwC

PwC supports insurers in establishing the initial business case for change through a comprehensive business and technologically-driven model. This analysis helps support your program funding processes typically needed to undertake large enterprise programs.

Beyond establishing the Total Cost of Ownership Model, we work with you to define the long-term enterprise drivers of the project, which when coupled with strong project governance capabilities align the execution of the project with the strategic goals of the initiative. In fact, our research has found this to be a key differentiator to project success, with changes to scope mid-project and poor estimates in the planning phase the top reasons for project delay (PwC 4th Global Portfolio and Programme Survey).

PwC's program management capabilities bring leading methodologies, tools and resources to plan, monitor and execute your Guidewire Program. Based on Agile development principles and commonly used program management tools, PwC's experience leading hundreds of Guidewire initiatives mean you benefit from a set of proven capabilities that allow you to mobilize your engagement quickly and efficiently.

Based on a "two in the box" model, we partner with your Project Management Office to establish a close peer working relationship between your project leadership and PwC. Our PMO capabilities include Project and Portfolio Management, ScrumMaster and Release Train Engineers who bring industry best practices to your engagement — or work within your established software development methodology as needed.

PwC's business analyst team works with your business and technology stakeholders to define, document and collaborate in building differentiating capabilities to meet your specific needs in the market. PwC's business analysts bring established best practices, accelerators and knowledge of Guidewire to align the desired functional requirements to the new application. With an average industry tenure of over ten years, PwC's Guidewire Practice brings a breadth of real-world industry knowledge to ensure you are optimizing your program to realize your program's goals.

PwC's strategic alliance with Guidewire offers managed services that deliver predictable outcomes, continuous improvements, and application evolution to drive business value. With a team of certified professionals, automated processes to ensure application availability, and experience in delivering continuous improvements, PwC can keep your Guidewire applications growing and evolving at the pace of your business. Real change is ongoing, requiring agility and expertise to capture the opportunities it brings and promises it enables.

PwC's development capabilities support your application configuration needs on the Guidewire InsuranceSuite platform. Our comprehensive offering results in a turn-key solution that can operate in a fully self-contained development team, or work in a mixed model with your developers to drive a collaborative outcome. Based on Agile development principles and trunk-based development, our software configuration teams are familiar with and support development best practices and automation standards using commonly known DevOps toolchains.

Our Global development model brings market breadth and scale to deliver a nearly continual capability to your Guidewire Program. With Acceleration Centers in Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India — PwC's multi-location model ensures flexible scale at your desired speed.

PwC's integration capabilities support the development of integration code between the Guidewire InsuranceSuite platform and your internal and third-party services. With experience integrating across all commonly observed service patterns, PwC is able to provide a comprehensive solution to ensure the Guidewire applications are integrated within your existing IT estate. Additionally, PwC's integration services can be extended to support larger enterprise integration needs, and we have experience implementing and supporting a robust set of industry standard API Fabrics and Enterprise Service Bus technologies.

PwC has also invested in the PwC Industry Cloud for Insurance, which provides a turn-key solution for insurers who are looking to accelerate their adoption of a Guidewire-enabled ecosystem of core platforms to drive industry InsurTech integration, accelerate embedded insurance use cases and drive real-time partnership models.

Insurers seeking a digital and mobile solution can rely on PwC to deliver a differentiated experience. Based on the Guidewire Digital Portals and Jutro solution, our experienced front-end developers collaborate with the back-end teams to realize an aligned solution that brings modern technologies and capabilities to your stakeholders and customers. PwC's experience working with the Guidewire Cloud Platform mean we can rapidly mobilize our digital capabilities to avoid common coordination challenges seen between digital and back-end teams that lack a common system integrator.

Insurers seeking a digital and mobile solution can rely on PwC to deliver a differentiated experience. Based on the Guidewire Digital Portals and Jutro solution, our experienced front-end developers collaborate with the back-end teams to realize an aligned solution that brings modern technologies and capabilities to your stakeholders and customers. PwC's experience working with the Guidewire Cloud Platform mean we can rapidly mobilize our digital capabilities to avoid common coordination challenges seen between digital and back-end teams that lack a common system integrator.

PwC's quality assurance capabilities span the full breadth of your transformation, from test planning to application unit testing, end-to-end, SIT, UAT and more. Based on a proven "shift left" testing methodology, we utilize Guidewire standards to ensure robust test compliance and bring forward test automation and execution into the development phase of the project to accelerate code validation and accelerate the "definition of done".