PartnerConnect
System Integrator and regional consulting partnerships are integral to our customers’ success, providing a wide range of services including business transformation consulting, strategy, system implementation, and IT related services. The PartnerConnect program sets out clear and measurable goals to ensure a mutually successful customer experience.
Strategic Level Partners
Affiliate Level Partners
Strategic Level Partners
Adaptra
Adaptra is an insurance industry specialist with significant experience and knowledge in IT project management, consulting and Guidewire application implementation services across Australia and New Zealand. Headquartered in Sydney Australia, Adaptra was founded in 1995 to provide project management services and has grown to become a leader in technology and business consulting services (including Agile, Architecture, BPM, PMO and IT development). Adaptra is about delivery. Adaptra's experts have the knowledge, the pragmatism and the experience to help clients increase profitability and service.
Since 2005 Adaptra has provided Guidewire implementation services and resources to multiple Guidewire customers. Adaptra's suite of Guidewire services includes: assessment services; functional consultancy services; project resources; and agile project managers. Additionally, Adaptra has Guidewire Certified consultants in Guidewire ClaimCenter and PolicyCenter, with all of its key consultants certified as SCRUM masters. www.adaptra.com.au/
Capgemini
Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through technologies. Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of working, the Collaborative Business Experience. The Group relies on its global delivery model called Rightshore®, which aims to get the right balance of the best talent from multiple locations, working as one team to create and deliver the optimum solution for clients. Present in more than 30 countries, Capgemini reported 2009 global revenues of EUR 8.4 billion and employs 90,000 people worldwide.
With more than 400 Guidewire experienced resources and 28 project engagements, Capgemini has a large global Guidewire practice to support implementations, upgrades, and hosting. Capgemini was the first Guidewire partner to perform a production upgrade, lead a Guidewire PolicyCenter implementation, and sign a multi-year Application Management Services agreement. Capgemini's Guidewire practice provides a consistent global methodology for Guidewire clients from their offshore delivery centers located in North America, Europe and India. Capgemini's mature global delivery model provides a flexible, consistent, cost efficient methodology with the potential to reduce the overall cost of implementation and ongoing support of the Guidewire platform. www.capgemini.com/claims
Capgemini is proud to share their highly regarded World Insurance Report now available at www.capgemini.com/wir11.
CastleBay Consulting
CastleBay provides best-in-class software acquisition; program, project and quality management; and integration services to the P/C market. CastleBay's value proposition is based on deep insurance domain expertise, complex technology project experience and reuse of Intellectual Capital assets. www.castlebayconsulting.com
Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, their 144,000 people are united by Ernst & Young's shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. Ernst & Young makes a difference by helping their people, their clients and their wider communities achieve their potential.
As a leading provider of claims, billing, policy administration and enterprise incentive management transformation and implementation services to insurers worldwide, Ernst & Young brings to market end-to-end transformational solutions to address their clients' core insurance operations needs. By leveraging their Guidewire-specific project accelerators and a strong onshore/offshore resource-base Ernst & Young delivers high value at a competitive price. Ernst & Young operates Insurance Centers of Excellence worldwide staffed by Guidewire trained and experienced professionals. Ernst & Young's proven services span the entire engagement lifecycle, from strategy through implementation. Ernst & Young's clients benefit from their broad insurance sector experience and deep subject matter knowledge in areas such as finance and operations improvement, actuarial, risk management, regulatory compliance and financial reporting advisory, enabling them to enhance their business operations and position their companies to meet competitive demands. It's how Ernst & Young makes a difference. www.ey.com/us/insurance
IBM
IBM Global Business Services offers integrated, innovative strategy and change solutions in Business strategy consulting, Operations strategy, Technology strategy, and Organization change strategy. Guidewire is an optimized member of the IBM PartnerWorld Insurance Industry Network. Guidewire solutions support a wide range of IBM hardware and software platforms including pSeries and xSeries server families, the AIX server operating system, and WebSphere Application Server.
IBM GBS was the first Guidewire Alliances partner outside of North America to successfully lead an implementation of a Guidewire ClaimCenter project in New Zealand. IBM Hosting is also involved in this implementation – hosting and managing ClaimCenter off-site on IBM servers for them. www.ibm.com
PricewaterhouseCoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services. More than 160,000 people in 153 countries across PwC's network share their experience to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice. PwC serves approximately 90 percent of the insurers in the Fortune 1000, and has extensive insight into client and industry issues.
PwC's Guidewire experience is based on our relationship dating back to 2003 and having worked on more than 25 Guidewire projects. When PwC acquired BearingPoint in June of 2009, they brought over their Guidewire practice, including consultants, project accelerators, and best practices from implementations. PwC continues to leverage and grow their Guidewire Center of Excellence and Lab that allows their consultants to share information, provide continuous training and continuous improvement of PwC's Guidewire-specific accelerators. PwC has a rich inventory of Policy, Billing and Claims business cases, requirements, process flows and Guidewire-specific artifacts based upon Guidewire's software system. PwC has the ability to provide ongoing application and infrastructure support for their clients as needed. PwC's experience allows them to accurately estimate these projects and balance project execution and change management within a client's organization to help obtain the return on investment during these transformations. www.pwc.com
Affiliate Level Partners
Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading global provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services headquartered in Teaneck, N.J. With over 110,000 employees and US $4.59 billion in revenues in 2010, Cognizant’s acclaimed global delivery model allows it to seamlessly service its customers through an integrated network of near shore, onsite, and offshore delivery centers in locations including India, China, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Budapest, London, the Philippines, and the US.
Operating under the wings of a dedicated Product Professional Services group, Cognizant’s Guidewire Center of Excellence has supported successful projects across Guidewire’s ClaimsCenter, PolicyCenter, and BillingCenter products. With a team of experienced Guidewire Business Analysts, Configuration, Integration, and Testing Specialists, Cognizant provides a full range of Guidewire implementation services through the use of value added project accelerators, implementation best practices, and unparalleled global delivery capability. Visit them online at www.cognizant.com.
HCL
HCL’s range of offerings span Product Engineering, Custom & Package Applications, BPO, IT Infrastructure Services, IT Hardware, Systems Integration, and distribution of ICT products across a wide range of industry verticals, including financial services.
The HCL Global Insurance Practice offers business-driven technology solutions to the insurance industry worldwide through in-depth experience and competence in domain, technology, tools and test methodologies. HCL offers business benefit oriented solutions on Guidewire products through robust frameworks, methodologies and solution accelerators leveraging the partnership with Guidewire globally. HCL’s clients have won several awards such as the 2010 Guidewire Innovation Award, 2009 Celent Model Insurer Award, 2009 Guidewire Innovation Award, 2009 IASA Technology Achievement Award, and the 2008 Guidewire Innovation Award. Visit them at http://www.hcltech.com/financial-services/insurance/.
Tenzing
Tenzing has a history of over 20 years consulting expertise in New Zealand. Our name and ethos is linked to Sherpa Tenzing Norgay – we work collaboratively to assist and achieve the aspirations of our clients.
Our unique blend of Management and Technology Consulting Services allows a one-stop shop for delivery of solutions to our insurance customers. Since 2007, Tenzing has provided Guidewire implementation services / resources and integration specialists to major insurers in NZ across the suite of Guidewire products. Visit us at www.tenzing.co.nz.