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About Guidewire
Guidewire is the platform general insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. As of the end of our fiscal year 2019, more than 380 insurers, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.
As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record, with 1,000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.
For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on twitter: @Guidewire_PandC
Penny Black’s Social Diary: Axa’s therapy; Acini’s shots
Penny Black is back, sharing the tittle-tattle she overheard at insurance industry events, reviewing the quality of buffets at conferences and giving a thumbs up – or down – to the sector’s social media posts.
Technology arms race to fuel London market M&A
Companies in the London market will increasingly pursue peer-to-peer technology integration driving greater facilitation and more mergers and acquisitions, Guidewire’s London market lead Jamie McDonnell has predicted.
Guidewire CEO maps insurance sector’s AI transformation
Guidewire CEO Mike Rosenbaum has outlined how he thinks generative artificial intelligence and large language models will change the insurance industry.
Could Applied be lining up a bid to buy a UK software house?
Deputy Editor’s View: It has been a few months now since Applied Systems pulled its Epic product from the UK. However, Scott McGee asks if they are lining up an even more shocking move?
Key drivers shaping the future of motor insurance
Nick Whiting, motor insurance expert at Guidewire discusses profitability challenges facing personal lines motor insurers can be traced to broader structural shifts in the motor industry.
Winners of British Insurance Technology Awards 2025 revealed
The winners of the second British Insurance Technology Awards were unveiled last night (23 September) at a The Brewery in London.
Burning point: insurance and heat-driven perils
With a series of heatwaves dominating summer 2025, Fiona Nicolson looks how insurers are changing their approach to underwriting, modelling and climate-risk planning.
Tech trends #17: Connected cars and the future of motor insurance
Companies from Ford to Tesla are racing to rollout vehicles that connect with outside systems, promising whole new opportunities for P&C insurers - including personalised, "pay-how-you-drive" coverage, automated FNOL, and more.
Three gifts commercial lines insurers can give their policyholders
For those in the insurance business, the best gift you can give your customers is an increase in peace of mind.
Customer retention: Mind the gap
Acquiring a new customer is between five and 25 times more expensive than retaining an existing one. Within insurance, the average customer retention rate is just 84%.
The bottom line on prescriptive analytics
Insurers will need to leverage data-driven insights to augment human intelligence to deliver superior business outcomes across various functions including pricing, claims and underwriting.
Seven insurance technology trends that will transform the P&C industry in 2023
The development and implementation of new insurance solutions in the P&C insurance industry are already well underway in 2023.
Tech trends #16: How technology is transforming P&C insurance
In this short video, Laura Drabik, chief evangelist at Guidewire outlines how new technologies enable insurers to make a profound difference in people's lives.
Evolving from systems of record to systems of insight and action
According to a recent study by McKinsey, “insurance market shapers,” those who boldly innovate, create significantly more economic value than their peers.
IoT drives innovation in insurance
The number of IoT connected devices is expected to increase to over one trillion devices by 2025, providing an enormous data set for insurance analysis.
Tech trends #15: Web3
From "smart contracts" to compelling new forms of coverage, Web3 is already having a profound impact on P&C insurance. Watch this short video to discover where it's heading next.
Tech trends #14: Deepfakes
Digital fraud is a growing challenge for property and casualty insurers, and the proliferation of deepfake technology is taking this challenge to a whole new level.
Tryg's transformation journey building the largest P&C insurance company in Scandinavia
The Danish insurer Tryg became the largest P&C insurance company in Scandinavia on June 1, 2021, after closing the acquisition of the British insurer RSA Insurance Group plc.
The future of rating is in the cloud
The next step in the evolution of rating is Guidewire's new collaborative and centralised Rating Workbench. Watch this video to learn about the future of rating on Guidewire Cloud and the value it can bring to insurance companies.
Video: Maximising loss ratio improvements
Every insurer wants to innovate and grow profitably. To do this, insurers must make better decisions across all aspects of the insurance lifecycle.
New Guidewire Solutions help insurers tackle their biggest challenges
Guidewire Solutions help insurers launch new products quickly and solve complex business challenges in a rapidly deployable manner. This blog sheds light on three specific solutions covering: excess and surplus; retention; alternative distribution.