Predictable outcomes delivered.

Guidewire and PwC

Hero image

Business innovation built on Guidewire Cloud

With offices in 152 countries and nearly 328,000 people, PwC is among the leading professional services networks in the world. Our Global Strategic Guidewire practice has over 3,000 trained professionals and has successfully completed 250+ projects since 2005. With nearly two decades of experience, PwC has amassed a large library of artifacts, estimates, and leading best practices from prior successful transformations that enable speed to market delivery and a proven track record of reducing delivery risk.

Let PwC help you obtain predictable outcomes, delivered.

Playback of this video is not currently available

14:42

PwC Industry Cloud for Insurance

PwC insurance industry specialists Ali Khan, Jim Quick and Imran Ilyas discuss cloud trends within the industry, how they enable business model reinvention and help carriers configure and integrate quickly for innovation.

Download PwC's cloud solution brief

See how we can enable your upgrade to the Guidewire Cloud Platform

20,000+

Guidewire Cloud Certifications

35+

Specializations

385+

Guidewire Cloud ACE Certified Practitioners

3000+

Guidewire Resources

The insurance transformation imperative

Advances in technology, new market entrants and shifts in consumer demands are challenging insurers to re-think their business models and technology platforms. At PwC, we see this across industries, with 40% of all CEO's believing their companies will no longer be economically viable a decade from now if they continue on their current path (PwC's 26th Annual Global CEO Survey). For insurers, new and shifting risk exposures exacerbate this challenge – leading many leaders to undertake a technologically-driven transformation to increase agility and improve performance.

Application evolution managed services

Business case and program mobilization

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).

Program management

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.

Business analysis

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.

Managed services

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.

Guidewire application configuration

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.

Guidewire and enterprise integration

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.

Guidewire digital

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.

Guidewire data and analytics

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.

Quality assurance

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".


Hello tomorrow, cloud forward is future ready

PwC is a leader in enabling the Guidewire Cloud for insurers — with over 20 successful implementations to date. Our comprehensive solution enables you to quickly upgrade your legacy Guidewire instances and migrate to the Guidewire Cloud Platform.

PwC's Guidewire Cloud Upgrade Toolkit offering provides four key capabilities:

Guidewire Code Analyzer

PwC's Guidewire Code Analyzer accelerator identifies key elements of the codebase for update/upgrade as part of the Cloud transformation.

Upgrade Backlog and Plan

PwC's Guidewire Cloud Transformation backlog brings an established set of backlogs and project plans to quickly mobilize and execute your cloud transformation.

PwC Upgrade Factory

PwC's global delivery capabilities bring scale and experience across multiple Guidewire Cloud upgrades to rapidly deliver results.

Cloud test automation framework

PwC's test automation framework aligns with Guidewire's enhanced cloud testing standards and can be used to extend or introduce new cloud-aligned testing capabilities.

“PwC's long standing Guidewire relationship, accelerators and experience from past successful projects can jump start your core, digital, data and cloud transformations.”

Imran IlyasPrincipal, Global & US Guidewire Alliance Leader, PwC US

Beyond Guidewire Core

Cloud engineering

Reinvent your business with cloud

Driving business reinvention through cloud engineering at scale. PwC delivers value by modernizing infrastructure, migrating data, and developing cloud-native applications. Our engineering-led approach enables growth, agility, and innovation in the cloud.

Learn more

Industry Cloud

Industry-specific cloud outcomes

PwC’s cross-industry insights and cloud engineering capabilities deliver tailored solutions. Our Industry Cloud services help organizations unlock business value with specific strategies that align to their sector and transformation goals.

Learn more

Guidewire Cloud

Transform core systems with PwC

PwC leads Guidewire Cloud implementations with 6,000+ certifications and unique qualifications across offerings. Our experience helps commercial insurers streamline operations, enhance services, and go live with confidence.

Learn more

Cloud services in insurance

Everest Group market insights

The 2023 PEAK Matrix® assesses leading cloud providers in insurance. It highlights how cloud drives growth, customer value, and innovation. PwC is recognized for helping insurers future-proof operations and increase tech ROI.

Learn more

Upgrades

Smooth transitions to Guidewire Cloud

PwC reduces upgrade risk with proven assets, automated tools, and cloud transition toolkits built from real-world Guidewire experience. This accelerates planning and execution for confident modernization.

Download brochure

Rapid implementation

Accelerate market readiness

Speed up delivery with agile development and MVP-based approaches. PwC enables fast deployment of core platforms to meet transformation goals and expand market access.

Download brochure


Case studies


PwC and Guidewire

As a Global Strategic Guidewire partner, we have almost 3,000 trained professionals focused solely on Guidewire services. Since 2005, PwC has successfully completed over 250 projects globally. With nearly 20 years of experience, PwC has amassed a comprehensive library of artifacts, accelerators, and leading best practices that accelerate your speed to market and reduce risk in your digital transformation.

We are committed to being at the forefront of new advances within the insurance industry. PwC’s Guidewire practice maintains a deep pool of certified Guidewire practitioners and has been a leader in obtaining multi-region specialization badges in key capabilities within North America, LATAM, APAC, EMEA and Global-level. PwC is a leader in specialization badges across key domestic and international markets and capabilities. View all of PwC’s badges.

A recognized leader in Guidewire implementation

Guidewire launched their new Partner award program, FY23 PartnerConnect Excellence Awards, to recognize Guidewire partners and celebrate achievements that have enabled digital transformation and delivered impactful cloud implementations to joint customers. These awards are a testament to each partner’s exceptional contributions as part of the Guidewire global ecosystem.


Contact us

Imran Ilyas

Imran Ilyas

Principal, Global & US Guidewire Alliance Leader, PwC US

Follow us

Required fields are marked with an asterisk(*)

Your personal information will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Statement. You can update your communication preferences at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in a PwC email or by submitting a request as outlined in our Privacy Statement.

Hide