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And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
(Revelation 17:1-6 KJV)
The Lion of Babylon is an ancient Babylonian symbol. The Lion of Babylon symbolically represented the King of Babylon.
The Star of Venus also called the Star of Ishtar is an ancient symbol originating in Iraq used as early as 2000 BCE that represents the planet Venus, historically to represent the Babylonian and Assyrian Goddess Ishtar that are connected with Venus, as well as being historically used by Phoenician culture to represent Venus and the goddess Astarte (a counterpart of Ishtar).
For additional information concerning the Archaeology of Ancient Babylon, please see this link.
Nimrod according to the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles, the son of Cush and great-grandson of Noah and the king of Shinar. He is depicted in the Tanakh as a man of power in the earth, and a mighty hunter. Extra-Biblical traditions associating him with the Tower of Babel led to his reputation as a king who was rebellious against God.
Ishtar was the god of love and war above all associated with sexuality: her cult involved sacred prostitution; her holy city Uruk was called the "town of the sacred courtesans"; and she herself was the "courtesan of the gods". Ishtar had many lovers; however, as Guirand notes,
"Woe to him whom Ishtar had honoured! The fickle goddess treated her passing lovers cruelly, and the unhappy wretches usually paid dearly for the favours heaped on them. Animals, enslaved by love, lost their native vigour: they fell into traps laid by men or were domesticated by them. 'Thou has loved the lion, mighty in strength', says the hero Gilgamesh to Ishtar, 'and thou hast dug for him seven and seven pits! Thou hast loved the steed, proud in battle, and destined him for the halter, the goad and the whip.' Even for the gods Ishtar's love was fatal. In her youth the goddess had loved Tammuz, god of the harvest, and—if one is to believe Gilgamesh—this love caused the death of Tammuz."
The Epic of Gilgamesh can be downloaded at in Adobe PDF format at this link.
The name of Semiramis came to be applied to various monuments in Western Asia, the origin of which was forgotten or unknown. Ultimately every stupendous work of antiquity by the Euphrates or in Iran seems to have been ascribed to her, even the Behistun Inscription of Darius. Herodotus ascribes to her the artificial banks that confined the Euphrates and knows her name as borne by a gate of Babylon. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are also known as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis.
Like Ishtar, the Greek Aphrodite and Northwestern Semitic Astarte were love goddesses who were "as cruel as they were wayward". Donald A. Mackenzie, an early popularizer of mythology, draws a parallel between the love goddess Aphrodite and her "dying god" lover Adonis on one hand, and the love goddess Ishtar and her "dying god" lover Tammuz on the other. Some scholars have suggested that,
"The myth of Adonis was derived in post-Homeric times by the Greeks indirectly from Mesopotamia (Assyria and Babylonia) through the Western Semites, the Semitic title 'Adon', meaning 'lord', having been mistaken for a proper name. This theory, however, cannot be accepted without qualifications."
For further study on Ancient Babylon, I highly recommend the following website.
Although the late Alexander Hislop's, "The Two Babylons or The Papal Worship Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and his Wife" has received much bad press and has been denounced in Catholicism, I highly recommend it. It can be downloaded in Adobe PDF format at this link.
The Queen of Heaven is a title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary by Christians, mainly of the Roman Catholic Church, and also, to some extent, in the Anglican, Lutheran, and Eastern Orthodox churches, to whom the title is a (disputed) consequence of the Council of Ephesus in the fifth century, where the Virgin Mary was proclaimed "theotokos" ("God-bearer," "birthgiver of God" or the "one who gives birth to God" among other translations), a title rendered in Latin as Mater Dei, "Mother of God".
In the Roman Catholic tradition "Mariology is Christology developed to its full potential." Mary and her son Jesus are very close but not identical in Catholic theology. Mary contributes to a fuller understanding of her Son, who Christ is and what He did. A Christology without Mary is erroneous in the Roman Catholic view, because it is not based on the total revelation of the Bible. Traces of this parallel interpretation go back to the early days of Christianity and numerous saints have since focused on it.
The development of this approach continued into the 20th century, e.g. in his 1946 publication "Compendium Mariologiae", the respected Mariologist Gabriel Roschini explained that Mary not only participated in the birth of the physical Jesus, but, with conception, she entered with him into a spiritual union. The divine salvation plan, being not only material, includes a permanent spiritual unity with Christ. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) wrote,
It is necessary to go back to Mary if we want to return to that "truth about Jesus Christ," "truth about the Church" and "truth about man".
The Prophet Jeremiah wrote about the "Queen of Heaven" in reference to a pagan goddess know as Ishtar. He wrote, "Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?" (Jeremiah 7:17-19 KJV).
Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee. But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
(Jeremiah 44:15-19 KJV)
The relation between the Christian title and similar pagan cults is one reason why the Protestant Churches usually avoid such titles as "Queen of Heaven". The title Queen of Heaven was used in antiquity by various religious systems. In particular, it was used by the prophet Jeremiah, probably in reference to Asherah, a goddess worshipped as the consort of Yahweh in ancient Israel and Judah and in the Temple of Yahweh in Elephantine in Upper Egypt. The only Biblical use of the title "Queen of Heaven" is in Jeremiah denouncing the idolatrous worship of Ashtoreth.
The Prophet Ezekiel was shown similar abominations by Hashem, "And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me. Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber. And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain. Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about. And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these. And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them" (Ezekiel 8:1-18 KJV).
This wickedness has been with us since the Tower of Babel and was instituted by Nimrod (The Original Antichrist), Semiramis and Tammuz. The Virgin Mary and Yeshua are representative of Semiramis (Ishtar) and Tammuz. Taken as a whole, Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz represent the "unholy trinity."
Furthermore, Praying to the dead is strictly forbidden in the Bible. It is written, "When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee" (Deuteronomy 18:9-12 KJV).
Saint John the Divine wrote, "And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble, And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth" (Revelation 18:1-24 KJV).
For additional currency with more images of the Beast in official European literature and coinage, see this link.
Sean Reichle wrote, "What goes around comes around, so if what you're facing hasn't come full circle, it's still on the move!" The Book of Genesis is the first book in the Holy Bible and the Torah. After the Great Flood (sorry Wikipedia, it is no myth), sin entered the world again through Nimrod. How fitting that sin will end with Nimrod in the Book of Revelation.


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I would like to hold a tournament for all of the great people of UR. I have spent darn near $400+ on cards and have quite a few extras. Can anyone that has held a successful tournament give me a few pointers as to what I should to to hold a successful one? Even if you have not, Please drop your ideas and I will have a tournament up probably next week.
Jericho78 - Monday 04/06/2007, 00:37
Master - Malaysian PRIDE squad
Plan your tournament formats for each round, how many players you are looking for and point system if any. Perhaps decide on the deck requirements, such as how many stars, how many level 5 cards allowed, or even one deck template for all participants. Don't forget your registration fee or inscription if any which can be pooled for the prizes as well. Those are the ones that come to mind and most important I think.
6SimS-Sven - Monday 04/06/2007, 05:09
Master - UTOPiA
Wrong forum i guess
You should post on strategy and tactics...
6SimS-Sven - Monday 04/06/2007, 05:11
Master - UTOPiA
Organizing a tournament may sound fun sometimes,i found some players try to insult me when i beat them especially br8
anyway jericho is right,formulate the rules,deck,cards,limitation of stars and cr cards...and the prize
Jericho78 - Monday 04/06/2007, 09:56
Master - Malaysian PRIDE squad
Wrong forum? Well Sven, this is the tournament forum so it should belong here.
jericho78, just noticing the spellchecker function

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Aoyama has been around for 11 years. Since its opening, it has been serving its customers faithfully with an extensive variety of Japanese dishes. Over the years, Aoyama has moved into the Japanese fusion-food market, where it entices the adventurous to try the innovative dishes that are well thought of by Aoyama's chefs. They do not rely on their menu all the time, but encourage their customers to try out the recommended dishes, some of which are limited to a certain season/period of time, depending on raw ingredients' availability.
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In the middle of the spending debates in Washington, it's easy to focus on the symptoms – crushing deficits, an immoral and economically inefficient tax code, a weak economy, etc. – and not the sources of the problems facing America. Recently, Steve Forbes highlighted two of the worst changes in the history of the United States, both of which happened 100 years ago: the creation of the Federal Reserve and the implementation of the federal income tax.
Regarding the income tax, Forbes had this to say:
Income taxes punish the very things we want more of: productive work, risk-taking and success. We can't say this enough: A tax on income is the price you pay for working; a tax on profits, the price you pay for success; and a tax on capital gains, the price you pay for taking risks that work out.
Exactly right. Additionally, the tax – initially implemented on top earners – has trickled down to hit almost all taxpayers. Washington, of course, subsequently implemented tax credits and loopholes for a "friends and family" system of corruption and special interests. Thus, economic activity is misallocated, slowing economic growth and causing harm to those who wish to work.
Forbes has long supported a flat income tax, and does so again in this column. This is a great alternative to the current system, though it still leaves a tax on income on the books. The Fair Tax is also a better option, though many accuse it of being regressive. Tea Party Patriots quickly examined both systems of taxation last year – check out what we found.
Forbes finishes the income tax portion of his column by pointing out how states are leading the fight against the current form of the income tax:
Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas has been unrelenting in pushing for lower income tax levies….Brownback triumphed and is now putting Kansas on the path to eliminating this exaction altogether. Governor Dave Heineman of Nebraska wants to do the same thing, as does Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. Other governors are pushing to reduce rates sharply, including Governors Pat McCrory of North Carolina, Mary Fallin of Oklahoma and John Kasich of Ohio.
States with taxaholic governors, such as Illinois, California, Maryland and Connecticut, are being hit hard. Jerry Brown claims his massive retroactive tax increase on upper-income Californians is balancing his budget. Not for long. Businesses and individuals are fleeing the once Golden State.
Golfer Phil Mickelson was trashed by liberals and the liberal media when he dared voice his disgust with having most of his earnings go to government bureaucracies. But shouting critics won't alter reality. Is it a coincidence that such athletes as Tiger Woods, Derek Jeter and countless others have official residences in places like no-state-income-tax Florida? Or that numerous Californians have their official residences just across the border in no-state-income-tax Nevada?
When it comes to the Federal Reserve, Forbes pulls no punches:
When the dollar is weakened, investment is misdirected. Less goes into financing productive activities and more into defensive hard assets. During the 1970s, the last time the Fed went off the rails, oil went from $3 a barrel to $40. When the early inflation in the 1980s ended, oil crashed to $10 a barrel before moving up a bit. From the mid-1980s to the early part of the last decade it averaged around $21. Now look at it: $97. Another example is the price of farmland, which has doubled in recent years. The Fed breeds destructive bubbles, as it is now doing with bonds.
Even the Bank of England, for example, has been voicing deep skepticism about the efficacy of quantitative easing.
That institution, by the way, conducted a couple of studies that showed how destructively volatile the world's financial systems have become since the end of the gold standard in the 1970s. Given current antigold orthodoxy, the Bank of England surveys didn't draw logical conclusions, but events will make even policymakers see the light.
Why should the dollar be linked to gold? Because more than any other thing on earth, gold keeps its intrinsic value. It's like the North Star, always constant. Thus it's a handy measuring rod for keeping the value of money steady.
In 2009, then-Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) outlined exactly how the Federal Reserve has caused much of today's economic and budget concerns. His comments can be seen below:
It is important, as 2013 wears on, for Tea Party activists to push for a balanced budget, tax reform, and a better policy approach for economic growth. But we should do so without missing the forest for the trees – without forgetting that imbalanced budgets and immoral tax policies would be far less problematic if these two centenarians had never existed.


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Shank is as violent as they come, filled with buzzing chainsaws, flying bullets, and buckets of blood. It's also a lot of fun. Ars recently had the opportunity to go hands-on with the upcoming downloadable title and came away both impressed and disturbed at just how enjoyable cartoon-style carnage can be.
Shank looks like it could be a new show on Adult Swim. From the art style and the smooth animation to the violent but not-too-serious tone, it looks like a cartoon. It is a game with an incredible sense of style. The characters are heavily stylized, with exaggerated proportions and thick, dark outlines. Comic book panels will pop up during the action to relay bits of story. At one point, the sun was setting and all I could see were the black silhouettes of my character and his many foes, which were occasionally lit up by gunfire.
Which brings us to the action, the heart of Shank. It's a 2D side-scroller that feels both modern and retro. It's a beat 'em up with a Western flavor: you'll be fighting gangs of thugs across dusty plains and in dingy bars. Your character has a range of weapons at his disposal, but you never have to worry about switching between them. His various attacks are all relegated to one weapon, which is controlled with a single button. His knives serve as a light attack, while duel-wielding pistols comprise his ranged attack. Want something more powerful? Nothing's better than a chainsaw.
You can use these weapons and attacks to create some very cool combos, juggling enemies with gunfire before lunging at them with knife attacks and finishing them off with a quick hit from the chainsaw. The cartoon blood flies pretty freely.
The enemies come at you in waves. Most of them are mindless and are only dangerous in groups, but every once in a while you'll come across slightly more difficult foes. They're easy to spot: they're either twice your size or holding butcher knives. There's also some light platforming, and despite his size, your character is nimble, with the ability to run along walls and climb buildings.
The demo ended with a boss battle, and as you'd expect from a game as over-the-top as this, the boss is a huge, a hulking, Bane-like figure a good four times your character's size. The fight is a literal cage match and very old-school in its approach: you have to watch how the boss moves and reacts, and wait for just the right time to attack. Finally taking him down was incredibly satisfying.
Even with the recent renaissance of 2D side-scrolling games, Shank stands out. It's beautifully animated with its own unique sense of style, and the juxtaposition between cartoon graphics and insanely brutal violence is intense and satisfying. The game also has a story penned by God of War writer Marianne Krawczyk, though it was hard to get any sense of the quality of writing from the demo. But more importantly, it just feels right. The action is fast but not loose, and you have a wide array of skills at your disposal so it doesn't feel like simple button mashing.
Shank will be coming to both the PlayStation Network (August 24) and Xbox Live Arcade (August 25).


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"UNBELIEVABLE! The girls with MINI-SKIRTS and MINI-MORALS who follow THE BIG BLAST of HARD ROCK MUSIC GROUPS!"
This is an original 1967 one-sheet for gore-meister Herschell Gordon Lewis' "Blast-off Girls." The film was a slight departure for Lewis as it focused on the perils of rock stardom rather than horror. As I recall, the garage-psych music in the film is not very remarkable (apologies to Jaded Blue and Charlie fans if there are any out there), but it does include a cameo by Colonel Sanders, who never fails to light up the screen.


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Guidewire PartnerConnect™ is a network of select partner companies that provide consulting services and solutions to enhance, extend, and complement the capabilities of Guidewire products. Our worldwide partner community helps contribute to the success of our mutual customers in the property and casualty insurance industry by delivering Guidewire software implementations, value-add solution and technology offerings, and guidance on insurance industry best practices.
For most categories, PartnerConnect includes three relationship tiers: Select, Advantage, and Premier/Global Premier. The tiers are designed to recognize partners based on achievements and contributions such as insurance industry expertise, the number of Guidewire certified employees, the number of integration accelerators, and the achievement of specializations for Consulting partners.
Guidewire PartnerConnect Consulting partners provide consulting services such as business transformation and strategy, implementation, and related solution and delivery services. To date, Guidewire Consulting practices worldwide include approximately 10,000 consultants who have been trained on, or are experienced with, Guidewire products.
Guidewire PartnerConnect Solution partners provide software, technology, and data solutions as well as insurance support services. Our solution partners help drive business value by developing and delivering additional integrations, extensions, and other complementary solutions for Guidewire products.
Guidewire has relationships with various industry associations that benefit our customers.
Infrastructure partners offer software and hardware technology infrastructure to our mutual customers.
PartnerConnect | Consulting
Guidewire PartnerConnect™ Consulting partners provide consulting services such as business transformation and strategy, implementation, and related solution and delivery services. To date, Guidewire Consulting practices worldwide include approximately 10,000 consultants who have been trained on, or are experienced with, Guidewire products.
The PartnerConnect Consulting program offers three tiers (Select, Advantage, and Global Premier) that reward and recognize partners for attaining sales goals, participating in active implementations, developing go-to-market skills by region, and achieving specializations.
Specializations are regionally based and require partners to demonstrate skills, knowledge, and competency in a particular Guidewire product or solution area. The achievement of specializations enables customers and Guidewire to have more clarity and insight into which partners have proven capabilities in a region. In addition, partners with specializations can better promote their capabilities across Guidewire products and solutions. Guidewire recently announced the Global Delivery specialization, which recognizes partners that have a large investment in their Guidewire practice, meet the global skills metric, and continue to meet the minimum number of references in a specific region.
The following specializations demonstrate specific product capabilities and expertise:
- Guidewire InsuranceSuite specialization partners can implement the essential core systems that support the P&C insurance life cycle, including underwriting, policy, billing, and claims management. This is a central source for all critical customer and financial data, rate and product definitions, workflows, and business rules across all lines of business.
- Guidewire PolicyCenter specialization partners can implement an underwriting, policy, and product management system that supports underwriters as they serve agents and policyholders.
- Guidewire ClaimCenter specialization partners can implement an end-to-end claims management solution, including loss-report intake, adjudication processes, and operational reporting.
- Guidewire BillingCenter specialization partners can implement a user-friendly billing and cash management system designed to drive efficiencies and deliver excellent across the entire P&C organization.
- Guidewire InsuranceSuite Integration specialization partners can integrate a Guidewire product with external applications by using fundamental technologies such as plugins, messaging, and web services.
- Guidewire Digital specialization partners can deliver compelling user journeys across marketing, sales, service, and claims and can deploy Guidewire Digital™ applications with Guidewire InsurancePlatform™ to drive customer centricity, business agility, and profitability.
- Guidewire DataHub specialization partners can source, unify, standardize, and store data from internal systems as well as external sources.
- Guidewire DataHub+ specialization partners can support both Guidewire DataHub™ and an insurance-specific business intelligence warehouse, like Guidewire InfoCenter™, that provides consumable information for business intelligence, analysis, and enhanced decision-making.
- Guidewire Cloud specialization partners can deliver Guidewire Cloud™ deployments.
- Guidewire InsuranceNow specialization partners can support InsuranceNow implementations in the United States. Support can include subcontracting, implementation support, and complementary support services. Guidewire will continue to lead InsuranceNow projects. This specialization is by invitation only.
- Guidewire Self-Managed Upgrades specialization partners have demonstrated comprehensive product knowledge, experience with upgrade tools and techniques, and active engagement with Guidewire to deliver successful, referenceable self-managed upgrade projects.
- Premier Go-to-Market – North America specialization and Premier Go-to-Market – EMEA specialization partners can support the expansion of Guidewire software technology into new relationships with insurers in a specific region. These partners also continue to drive adoption of Guidewire technology through successful project implementations, and they make the necessary investment in Guidewire training and certification to provide quality consulting services.
Note: The Premier Go-to-Market – North America specialization replaces the Regional Premier Americas specialization that was launched in 2018.
- Digital UX complementary specialization partners have demonstrated interoperability or integration with Guidewire products in the area of User Experience (UX). Partners must apply for this specialization.
- Premier Services Engagement specialization partners have developed a broad range of capabilities that enhance Guidewire delivery services. They have also demonstrated their ability to use a proven, flexible engagement model for effectively partnering with Guidewire customers and cooperating at a strategic scale with Guidewire Professional Services in Guidewire-led service engagements with the required competencies.
- Testing Standards specialization partners have actively engaged with Guidewire on testing standards, met a well-defined process and criteria, and have demonstrated a proven path for testing standards adoption.
Our Consulting partners can be identified by region (North America, EMEA, APAC, LATAM), by tier (Select, Advantage, Global Premier), and by specializations.
- BillingCenter - Americas
- ClaimCenter - Americas
- Cloud - Americas
- InsuranceSuite - Americas
- InsuranceSuite Integration - Americas
- PolicyCenter - Americas
- Premier Go-to-Market - Americas
Capgemini is a global leader in consulting, digital transformation, technology, and engineering services. The Group is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of clients' opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital, and platforms. Building on its strong heritage of 50+ years and its deep industry-specific expertise, Capgemini enables organizations to realize their business ambitions through an array of services from strategy to operations. Capgemini is driven by the conviction that the business value of technology comes from—and through—people. Today it's a multicultural company of 270,000 team members in nearly 50 countries. After acquiring Altran Technologies, the Group reported 2019 combined revenues of €17 billion (approximately US$18.48 billion). More information is available at http://www.capgemini.com.
Capgemini's history and experience with Guidewire began in 2004. Today, we're one of Guidewire's most tenured and experienced partners in the world. We have over 26,000 resources dedicated to the insurance sector—providing consulting, technology, and outsourcing services to more than 200 insurers around the world, including 12 of the world's top insurance companies. Our team comprises insurance industry veterans, business transformation specialists, large-scale program managers, insurance business solution architects, and technology and QA specialists. Capgemini's Guidewire team has led and/or supported more than 100 Guidewire projects across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Our Guidewire practice has one of the most extensive global networks of Guidewire-certified professionals, who regularly contribute to a robust repository of business, technology, and architecture assets and accelerators for InsuranceSuite, including more than 275 Guidewire use cases and 2,600 test cases.
- BillingCenter - Americas
- ClaimCenter - Americas
- InsuranceSuite - Americas
- PolicyCenter - Americas
- Premier Go-to-Market - Americas
- Premier Services Engagement - Americas
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. We work with leading insurers and have 100+ delivery centers across North America, Europe, and APAC. Cognizant significantly expanded its capabilities in APAC with the acquisition of Adaptra in 2017.
Our end-to-end approach to Guidewire implementation services transforms business and IT ecosystems and modernizes and integrates legacy platforms—introducing new capabilities such as digital, cloud, and infrastructure services. Cognizant's comprehensive partnership with Guidewire enables us to lead a client's digital transformative journey on the Guidewire platform. We do this by leveraging deep delivery experience, a robust set of accelerators, and the latest technologies to drive customer engagement, predictable outcomes, and business value realization.
Creating agility across the enterprise enables insurers to respond faster to market disruptions, improve speed-to-market, and reduce operational costs. To learn more about our Guidewire services, visit https://www.cognizant.com/guidewire-implementation-services.
Deloitte Consulting, LLP
- BillingCenter - Americas
- ClaimCenter - Americas
- Digital - Americas
- InsuranceSuite - Americas
- InsuranceSuite Integration - Americas
- PolicyCenter - Americas
- Premier Go-to-Market - Americas
The Deloitte and Guidewire alliance brings together Deloitte's deep experience in business transformation in the insurance industry with Guidewire's suite of applications for core systems transformation. Together we can help insurers realize the potential of their core systems by transforming business processes to take advantage of the flexible capabilities in Guidewire software.
Deloitte brings decades of experience in helping insurers transform their business processes and IT systems. Through years of experience delivering large-scale business applications, Deloitte has developed and used tested methodologies for application development as well as developed Guidewire specific tools and artifacts that can help accelerate delivery and reduce cost and risk. Deloitte has one of the largest technology practices in the world, with access to a network of more than 26,000 practitioners across more than 30 countries. For more information, please visit http://www.deloitte.com/us/guidewire.
- BillingCenter - Americas
- ClaimCenter - Americas
- Cloud - Americas
- DataHub - Americas
- InsuranceSuite - Americas
- InsuranceSuite Integration - Americas
- PolicyCenter - Americas
- Premier Go-to-Market - Americas
EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. The insights and quality services we deliver help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.
As a leading provider of claims, billing, policy administration and enterprise incentive management transformation and implementation services to insurers worldwide, we bring to market end-to-end transformational solutions to address our clients' core insurance operations needs. By leveraging Guidewire-specific project accelerators and a strong onshore/offshore resource-base we deliver high value at a competitive price. We operate Insurance Centers of Excellence worldwide staffed by Guidewire trained and experienced professionals. Our proven services span the entire engagement lifecycle, from strategy through implementation and our clients benefit from our broad insurance sector experience, deep subject matter knowledge and integrated services in areas such as audit, actuarial, risk, finance improvement, operations improvement, transactions, tax, accounting and accounting implementation, financial reporting, technology, business intelligence and analytics, enabling them to enhance their business operations and position their companies to meet competitive demands. www.ey.com/us/insurance
- BillingCenter - Americas
- ClaimCenter - Americas
- Cloud - Americas
- DataHub - Americas - Global Delivery
- Digital - Americas
- InsuranceSuite - Americas
- InsuranceSuite Integration - Americas - Global Delivery
- PolicyCenter - Americas
- Premier Go-to-Market - Americas
With offices in 157 countries and more than 276,000 people around the world, we are among the leading professional services networks in the world. Our Global Premier–level practice in the Guidewire PartnerConnect program has more than 2,000 trained professionals and has completed more than 200 successful projects since 2003. We are committed to the insurance industry and continue to grow our expertise. PwC was the first Guidewire partner to earn specializations for the following products: Guidewire Cloud, Guidewire PolicyCenter, Guidewire BillingCenter, Guidewire ClaimCenter, Guidewire Insurance Suite (including Insurance Suite integration), and Guidewire DataHub.
During the 17 years of our Guidewire practice, we've amassed a large library of artifacts, estimates, and leading practices that enhance speed-to-market and reduce risk. We strategically transform insurers' core, data, and digital transformation capabilities, providing dramatic improvements for their internal customers, agents, claims personnel, and members . Our service teams include experienced specialists in strategy, risk management, finance, regulation, operations, and technology who help clients make the most of new opportunities in a rapidly changing market landscape.
Tell us what matters to you by visiting us at https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/alliances/guidewire.html.
Blackcomb Consultants
Blackcomb Consultants is a leading P&C insurance enterprise consulting firm that focuses on implementing Guidewire products and solutions. Blackcomb offers advisory, planning, and support services that help P&C insurers manage and improve their core systems, key processes, and technology platforms.
We're a perfect fit for P&C insurers of all sizes because we're proven former insurance IT executives with deep advisory, planning, implementation, and testing expertise. We've completed more than 40 successful Guidewire engagements to date for more than 30 clients. Headquartered in Warrenville, Illinois, we have development centers in Plano, Texas; Bangalore, India; and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Blackcomb capability areas include Guidewire implementations, performance improvement, organizational change management, Guidewire upgrades, cloud-hosted and cloud-managed solutions, and production support across all Guidewire product lines. Blackcomb cloud-hosted services can help clients deliver real benefits to their core businesses. A key aspect of our cloud-hosted offerings is flexibility, enabling clients to choose a level of management while maintaining access to the environment. Additionally, our exceptional proficiency in Guidewire upgrades can help P&C insurers stay current with Guidewire technology. Our industry-leading upgrade capabilities rely on a practical and thorough approach that delivers outstanding results for our clients.
For core insurance systems, Blackcomb has successfully provided solutions across the complete digital transformation ecosystem, including areas such as strategy, selection, assessment, inception, development, stabilization, support, and upgrades. Our domestic and international development and hosting centers enable us to deliver breakthrough, cost-effective solutions for planning and implementing Guidewire software applications for P&C insurers of all sizes. For more information, please visit us at www.blackcombconsultants.com/guidewire.
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
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
Zensar Technologies
- BillingCenter - Americas
- Digital - Americas
Zensar Technologies is a leading digital solutions and technology services company that specializes in partnering with global insurance, retail, and IT organizations on their digital transformation journeys. We are a technology partner of choice, backed by a strong track record of innovation, credible investment in digital solutions, and an unwavering commitment to client success. Zensar's comprehensive range of digital and technology services and solutions enables its clients to achieve new thresholds of business performance.
Cynosure, a Zensar company, is a Guidewire PartnerConnect™ Consulting partner that offers a complete suite of services for Guidewire InsurancePlatform™. Services for P&C insurers range across implementation, testing, automation, digital experience, cloud, managed services, and upgrades. With more than 15 years of experience and over 100 Guidewire implementation and upgrade projects, we understand how to leverage technology to meet business goals. With our CX and digital transformation capabilities, we've created strong customer success stories. High customer satisfaction rates are a testimony to our differentiated approach that ensures successful implementation along with effective data management, quality assurance, and managed services. Together, Cynosure and Zensar enjoy a unique combination of P&C insurance domain experience and world-class technical innovation. For more information, visit https://www.zensar.com/alliances/guidewire.
Alchemy Technology Services
Alchemy Technology Services is a rapidly growing European center of excellence for insurance software implementation supporting the digitalization of the global insurance industry. We provide new talent to support insurers in modernizing and growing their technology platforms.
Trained to a professional level on Guidewire InsuranceSuite, our technical consultants and business analysts can seamlessly integrate with and work alongside both Guidewire Professional Services and insurers. Our ethos of collaboration and our investment in our people align us both culturally and operationally with Guidewire.
Our teams work on implementation projects across Europe and beyond. Our unique positioning and near-shore resourcing enable resources to be deployed quickly and efficiently to client sites. Government backing supports our rapid growth and intensive training plans so that we can provide fully certified resources within a competitive pricing model. Our talented analysts and consultants are also Chartered Institute of Insurance (CII) certified.
As a PartnerConnect Select partner, we are committed to working with Guidewire, its customers, and system integrators to ensure that projects are delivered with the required global expertise. www.alchemytechs.com.
Centric Consulting
Centric Consulting is a business consulting and technology solutions firm providing full-service management consulting services. Our expert consultants help clients tackle their toughest business challenges with innovative, balanced and measureable solutions. With more than 700 employees in 11 cities across the U.S. and in India, as well as two national practices, Centric is known for helping clients achieve their business goals and be more competitive. Centric was founded in 1999 and is a privately owned company.
Centric focuses on the implementation of the Guidewire Suite for small and middle market insurance carriers. We leverage our local business model, insurance industry expertise, core systems experience, and offshore delivery capabilities to create attractive teaming options for Guidewire implementation, upgrade and support work. Centric also has a robust Insurance Business Intelligence capability that will be leveraged for clients that chose to implement the Guidewire InfoCenter and Datahub solutions. The Centric team is experienced, resourceful and passionate about the clients we serve and the results we deliver. To learn more, visit www.centricconsulting.com/insurance.
CGI's 72,000 professionals in 40 countries provide end-to-end IT and business process services that facilitate the ongoing evolution of our clients' businesses. CGI offers services and solutions that cover every aspect of a P&C insurer's business and has been deeply entrenched in the P&C industry for decades, working extensively on the business, transaction and technology sides. This capability was recently materially expanded with the acquisition of Logica in August, 2012, a management and technology consulting leader with P&C experience across Europe and Latin America. CGI's experts have the credentials, experience and know-how to transform P&C operations, as well as a track record of on-time, on-budget delivery based on our rigorous project management approach.
Having built, sold and implemented dozens of core insurance systems around the world, CGI is highly qualified to assist in the planning and successful execution of customers' transition to, configuration of and integration with Guidewire's leading solutions. For further information, visit http://www.cgi.com/en/insurance/property-and-casualty.
Insurance Technology Services (ITS) provides testing, data migration, business analysis, end-user training, and project management services exclusively to the insurance industry. As a Guidewire partner, ITS offers specialized services and solutions to support the Core, Data, and Digital needs of insurers that use InsuranceNow or InsuranceSuite. For more information, visit http://insurancetechnologyservices.com/.
LTI (Larsen & Toubro Infotech) is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company that helps its clients succeed in a converging world. With operations in 30 countries, we go the extra mile for our clients and accelerate their digital transformation with our Mosaic platform to enable their mobile, social, analytics, IoT, and cloud journeys. Founded in 1997 as a subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited, LTI has a unique heritage that gives us unrivaled real-world expertise to solve the most complex challenges of enterprises across all industries.
LTI's Insurance Business Unit offers a wide range of IT solutions and services across the insurance value chain, leveraging strong domain expertise, innovative intellectual property, and robust frameworks. As a Guidewire PartnerConnect™ Consulting partner, LTI has rich experience across Guidewire core, data, and digital applications and continues to invest in these areas. LTI has developed ready-to-use frameworks and tools that help insurers go to market faster and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). Learn more at https://www.lntinfotech.com/industries/insurance/ and follow us at @LTI_Global.
Stratus Technology Services
Stratus' commitment and methodology has led it to partner with some of the largest and most well-known P&C insurers in the US, enabling it to build a practice servicing more than 30 customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. Stratus' high-touch, consultative approach ensures alignment and collaboration with customers from day one through post-production. Its customers receive a unique level of attention, service, and support that is instrumental to the success of each engagement.
Stratus has provided Guidewire solutions since 2014 and has a demonstrated track record of assisting major and mid-cap P&C insurers in deploying, customizing and maintaining their investment in Guidewire technology. Supported by a global team of Guidewire subject matter experts, Stratus delivers implementations, upgrades, managed services, and production support for Guidewire InsuranceSuite and across Guidewire's data and analytics as well as digital products. With more than 20 years of insurance experience, Stratus' core engagement team develops and delivers customized solutions driven by in-depth understanding of each customer as well as extensive Guidewire product knowledge.
With five decades of experience in partnering with the world's leading banks, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) companies, TCS offers a comprehensive portfolio of technology-led, domain-focused processes, frameworks, and innovative solutions. The TCS portfolio empower BFSI organizations to respond to market changes quickly and manage customer relationships effectively, while ensuring regulatory compliance. With a commitment to innovation and transformation, TCS is helping global BFSI organizations manage risks better, leverage ecosystems effectively, and create exponential value for their customers.
As a strategic partner of Guidewire, we offer our P&C insurance customers end-to-end implementation, maintenance, and upgrade capabilities across Guidewire InsurancePlatform™. Our deep P&C insurance domain expertise, mature engineering practices, Guidewire assets and accelerators, and dedicated global pool of Guidewire talent ensure on-time, high-quality implementations while reducing overall cost of ownership. To learn more, visit us at www.tcs.com/insurance.
PartnerConnect | Solution
Guidewire PartnerConnect Solution partners provide software, technology, and data solutions as well as insurance support services. Our solution partners help drive business value by developing and delivering additional integrations, extensions, and complementary solutions for Guidewire products.
For more information, or to learn about the Ready for Guidewire accelerator validation program, contact the PartnerConnect Solution team.
Adobe pioneered the paper-to-digital transformation with the invention of PDF. We created Adobe Document Cloud so that people can scan, edit, share, and sign documents anytime, anywhere. Today, we're revolutionizing the way people and businesses communicate, collaborate, and get work done.
Customers expect unique experiences across channels and devices, and insurance leaders recognize the opportunity. From quotes to claims, Adobe can help you create personalized experiences and keep workflows moving by easily adding e-signatures. Adobe Sign lets employees click to instantly launch automated signing processes for individual signers or thousands of recipients. Adobe Sign has processed more than 8 billion transactions from millions of signers around the globe. It's as simple as you want and as secure as you need, as well as certified compliant with ISO 27001, SSAE SOC 2 Type 2, FedRAMP Tailored, and PCI DSS. Adobe Sign goes far beyond e-signatures, enabling the digitization of insurance workflows of every kind for an exceptional ROI of 420%. It is also Microsoft's preferred e-signature solution. Visit https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/sign/business.html to learn more.
ANCILE Solutions
ANCILE Solutions, Inc. is the creator of uPerform, a digital learning content platform that drives user adoption for more than 200 of the world's leading business and healthcare applications. uPerform helps customer organizations realize the full value of their EHR, HCM, and ERP software by boosting proficiency, driving adoption, and reducing screen time. uPerform supports onboarding, continuous learning, process compliance, change management, and software documentation.
uPerform's Guidewire Connector helps employees master Guidewire PolicyCenter, Guidewire BillingCenter, and Guidewire ClaimCenter 9+ while they work by providing customized learning directly within the workflow. This integration improves employee understanding, efficiency, and adoption of the mission-critical software, ensuring that tasks are completed quickly and users are more productive. Using uPerform, authors can accelerate the development, curation, and deployment of training and learning content that accurately reflects their customized applications.
For more information on uPerform, visit https://www.ancile.com.
Athenium Analytics
Athenium Analytics leads the market in helping P&C insurers measure the quality of their operations and improve their performance. teamthink, our comprehensive quality assurance suite, offers solutions for the entire QA review process, from file selection through reviews, reporting, and development planning. Claims and underwriting professionals use teamthink in more than 45 countries to improve their QA processes through advanced measurements, in-depth analytics, and comprehensive reporting capabilities. Using teamthink, our customers measure, manage, and eliminate the financial impact of low-quality operations.
Athenium Analytics partners with Guidewire to provide one-click access to teamthink from within ClaimCenter and PolicyCenter. Customers can improve efficiency by using Guidewire data to select and assign files for review. ClaimCenter and PolicyCenter activity lists can be updated to include review assignments and action items generated during reviews.
At Athenium Analytics, we believe that better data leads to better decisions. Our experienced industry experts, account managers, and software system engineers are committed to supporting the quality assurance goals of our customers. Visit www.athenium.com to learn how teamthink can improve your operations and save you money.
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
With more than 20 years' experience enabling insurers and consortiums to prevent fraud, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence uniquely addresses the full insurance financial-crime landscape—from claims fraud and straight-through processing to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance and cyber-related risks.
The Ready for Guidewire NetReveal ClaimCenter add-on accelerates accurate decision-making through holistic, intelligence-led fraud detection and alerting across the claims lifecycle. Genuine customer satisfaction is safeguarded with straight-through claims processing directly in ClaimCenter, while legitimate fraud risk is flagged, investigated, and effectively prevented.
The add-on delivers:
• Higher fraud detection
• Reduced claim-processing time
• Increased customer satisfaction
Betterview exists to help P&C insurance companies understand and manage property risk. Insurers can make better decisions with less overhead using Betterview's geospatial predictive analytics. Leveraging the Betterview Visual Score and attributes enables insurance teams to prioritize risks and maximize impact by focusing on their worst or most challenging risks. Property underwriters, loss-control specialists, risk engineers, and inspectors can use Betterview on the front end to identify and mitigate risk during policy inception and renewal.
Guidewire customers can request and view Betterview data directly in Guidewire PolicyCenter. This integration is aligned with Betterview's goal of providing valuable information conveniently to our customers within their existing workflow. Our Guidewire customers can seamlessly access information about a property's risk factors, roof condition, changes over time, and more within PolicyCenter.
To learn more, visit https://www.betterview.com.
Clairus Group
The Clairus Group provides leading glass claims management solutions to P&C insurers and fleet management companies in North America. With a focus on continual improvement and transparency, the organization works closely with its partners and the industry as a whole to enhance best practices and overall client experiences. Clairus Group's proprietary, online-based, white-label platform facilitates self-service authorizations for glass service providers based on strict business rules, resulting in greater productivity and creating seamless customer experiences that go beyond the traditional call center model.
The Clairus Group's claims accelerators enable ease of integration, improve processing time, and enable insurers to internalize the management of exception cases with minimal training, ensuring that their own customer philosophy is maintained. The business intelligence that is gathered via the platform, combined with the organization's expertise, becomes a powerful base for enhanced proactive decision-making and performance management. https://www.clairusgroup.com/index.html
Cloverleaf Analytics
Cloverleaf Analytics is a Texas based company providing a comprehensive reporting, BI and analytics solution exclusively for the P&C insurance industry with over 150 reports and dashboards out of the box, 900+ KPI's supporting 47 lines of business plus specialty and excess and surplus lines.
Cloverleaf has created a connector to work with Guidewire's InsuranceNow product that allows Cloverleaf to implement our industry leading solution in a matter of a few weeks and not months and years that are typical in this industry.
Copart is a global leader in online vehicle auctions and a premier destination for the resale and remarketing of vehicles. Copart's innovative technology and online auction platform link buyers and sellers from 170 countries around the world. Operating in more than 200 locations across 12 countries, with over 125,000 vehicles up for auction every day, Copart sells over two million vehicles each year.
The Copart Salvage Accelerator enables insurers to connect business processes electronically with minimal integration and developmental work. With the accelerator, customers can directly assign vehicles to the Copart system as well as update or cancel those assignments. In return, Copart sends electronic updates about the lifecycle of the assignment (such as vehicle status) back to Guidewire ClaimCenter™. Learn more about Copart by visiting www.copart.com.
EagleView is the unparalleled provider of aerial imagery, data analytics, property data, and GIS solutions for local and federal government agencies as well as the infrastructure, insurance, solar, and construction sectors. The patented Pictometry® imagery solutions and comprehensive property data from EagleView answer questions related to millions of residential and commercial properties; these solutions save individuals time and money and reduce their exposure to risk. EagleView provides access to its orthogonal and oblique aerial imagery, 3D models, interior mapping solution, and measurement and analytical tools through proprietary software as well as integrations for assessment, GIS, public safety, and other industries.
Enservio®, a Solera® company, offers robust software and world-class claim services for the entire contents claims process. We blend digital technology with human expertise to provide risk-free solutions that identify fraudulent claims, streamline payments, and provide onsite inventory capture and transcription, as well as contents valuation and replacement services. Insurers rely on our platform to achieve the optimal business outcome. Enservio simplifies and speeds the claims settlement process, driving superior policyholder satisfaction and efficient workflow. Founded in 2004, Enservio is headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, with offices and professional staff across the U.S.
Enservio is excited to partner with Guidewire to offer the ContentsExpress add-on, a simple integrated solution to process property contents claims. The add-on provides insurers a seamless end-to-end integrated experience from Guidewire ClaimCenter™ to the ContentsExpress® solution. ContentsExpress is the industry's leading contents management solution and is trusted by top insurers nationwide. This valued partnership gives our mutual customers direct access to an enhanced contents claims workflow and valuation solution, eliminating redundancies and improving efficiency, cycle times, and cost savings. To learn more, visit us at www.enservio.com.
Franco Signor
Franco Signor is the recognized leader in Medicare Secondary Payer Compliance, serving thousands of clients handling millions of claims with innovative, technology-enabled MSP compliance solutions. Franco Signor's innovative, technology-driven approach represents a groundbreaking step forward in the delivery of Mandatory Insurer Reporting, Conditional Payment Resolution, and Medicare Set-Aside Services. Our measurable and demonstrated superior outcomes have led us to the forefront of the MSP industry. Clients can report and resolve their Medicare claims with efficiency and confidence.
Franco Signor Proprietary Section 111 Reporting Platform was designed to meet all the needs of a third-party administrator, self-insured, or insurer when reporting to a claims management system. Our Section 111 reporting solution seamlessly integrates with Guidewire ClaimCenter via real-time API data exchange, delivering the industry's only real-time reporting solution. Our process replicates errors in claims pre-reporting to eliminate late reporting. It also integrates client-customized intelligence to ensure unmatched Conditional Payment management and oversight across the entire organization. For more information, visit www.FrancoSignor.com.
Hubio provides integrated solutions to help property and casualty insurers improve customer engagement, control operating expenses, enhance their overall ease of doing business, and connect them with the outside world. Hubio product platforms collect, manage, and interpret insurance data. By supplying state-of-the-art connectivity, regulatory statistical reporting solutions, and enterprise system data conversion for agents, brokers, and policyholders, Hubio provides innovative interfaces between insurers, distribution partners, and consumers.
In North America, Hubio is a Guidewire PartnerConnect Solution partner developing solutions that enable insurers to submit claims and policy experience data to third parties to meet regulatory, legal, and association obligations. For users of Guidewire PolicyCenter, the Hubio Regulatory Reporting accelerator saves time, reduces administrative burdens and costs, and alleviates risk. Insurers gain comfort in knowing that their core regulatory filing obligations are prepared using a proven solution that updates as submission requirements change.
Hubio's customer service, professional services, and development offices are in Toronto. Learn more at http://hubio.com/exchange/guidewire-partnership/.
Insurance Auto Auctions
IAA is a leading global marketplace to buy and sell total loss, damaged, and low-value vehicles. Supported by industry-leading technology and innovation, IAA's solutions focus on maximizing the value of vehicles sold through its multichannel auction model and shortening the selling cycle overall. Headquartered near Chicago in Westchester, Illinois, IAA has nearly 4,000 talented employees and more than 200 facilities throughout the US, Canada, and the UK.
IAA strives to provide seamless integration with minimal effort for our customers. The IAA Salvage Accelerator will enhance our ability to allow customers flexibility in integration options with Guidewire ClaimCenter, while continuing to deliver the highest level of product and service support.
Learn more about IAA, our integration capabilities, and our accelerator offering at iaai.com.
Intelligent Mechatronic Systems Inc.
IMS, part of Trak Global Group, is a leading connected car and telematics solutions provider, delivering services and analytics to insurers, governments, and enterprises. IMS is the developer of the cloud-based DriveSync® connected car platform, which has received industry acclaim for its ability to offer customers a data source‒agnostic, multi-device strategy for service provision. Visit www.intellimec.com for details.
IMS provides the UBI Enrollment Accelerator for Guidewire PolicyCenter, providing seamless, out-of-the-box integration of telematics with Policy Management Systems. The integration enables insurers to enroll clients and manage their policyholder data through a single system. Insurers can save on integration costs, reduce telematics program implementation times, and decrease standard training time because there is only one system—PolicyCenter—to be trained on. The IMS Ready for Guidewire accelerator helps existing Guidewire customers get to market with IMS' industry-acclaimed UBI and insurance telematics programs. Using these solutions, insurers can:
- Improve their combined ratio with rewards and engagement expertise
- Answer critical business questions with data insights and analytics
- Access direct-to-consumer learning from our Digital Insurance Experience (Carrot)
- Be confident with a data- and device-agnostic platform that is fully future-proofed
IVANS Insurance Solutions
IVANS, a division of Applied Systems, is the insurance industry's exchange that connects insurers, MGAs, agencies, and policyholders. IVANS makes insurance business easier with secure information exchange, data translation, and managed connectivity solutions that automate the distribution and servicing of insurance products. More insurers rely on IVANS than on any other company to drive profitable premium growth and better customer service throughout the insurance lifecycle.
IVANS provides an IVANS Download accelerator for Guidewire InsuranceSuite to enable insurers to significantly reduce the time to implement, test, and deploy IVANS Download solutions. This collaboration enables insurers to leverage industry-leading IVANS connectivity and data exchange solutions to increase automation and ease of doing business with agency partners, resulting in significant time and cost savings and improved client service. Visit www.ivansinsurance.com.
Loss Control 360
Utilant's Loss Control 360 is a "best-in-class" Loss Control Survey Management Platform for global P&C insurers and top risk-engineering companies. Loss Control 360 (LC360) establishes a hub that connects insurance core systems, inspection firms, and insurtechs with supporting technologies to provide enhanced capabilities that automate, identify, manage, and reduce risk. Supporting insurers' Commercial, Personal, and Specialty lines, our solution is deployed via a SaaS model.
The LC360 PolicyCenter Accelerator reduces the time it takes to request inspections for underwriting by passing inspection requests and relevant data directly from Guidewire PolicyCenter to LC360. Inspection data, recommendations, and finished reports are automatically synchronized between LC360 and PolicyCenter so that underwriters can stay focused on writing new business without switching between applications. Our accelerators provide a framework for integrating PolicyCenter and Guidewire ClaimCenter with LC360—replacing the need for costly and burdensome custom integrations, shortening the amount of time it takes for the two platforms to communicate, and reducing the investment that is typically needed for custom coding. Learn more at www.losscontrol360.com.
Octo Telematics
Founded in 2002, Octo is the largest and most experienced insurance telematics company globally, transforming auto insurance through behavioral, contextual, and driving analytics for more than 100 insurance partners. Octo has over 5.3 million connected users and the largest global database of telematics data, with more than 175 billion miles of driving data and 433,000 analyzed crashes (as of September 30, 2017).
Octo's complete set of telematics solutions and value-added services deliver powerful new insights into driver risk, informing solutions that benefit auto insurers and policyholders alike. Moreover, Octo helps insurers achieve technological growth and innovation by extending Guidewire InsurancePlatform with a Guidewire PolicyCenter accelerator, enabling companies to bring telematics solutions to market immediately. For more information, visit www.octotelematics.com or (in North America) www.octousa.com.
ODG from MCG Health
ODG is the workers' compensation and group life and disability product published by MCG Health, which is part of the Hearst Health Network. ODG provides clinical guidelines and analytical tools designed specifically to:
- Improve and benchmark return-to-work performance
- Facilitate quality care while limiting inappropriate utilization
- Assess claim risk for interventional triage
- Set reserves based on industry data
Evidence-based guidelines from ODG span the continuum of workers' compensation and group life/disability cases, supporting clinical decisions, RTW, and care planning, as well as facilitating better communications between providers and payors. ODG automation enables payers to assess risk, automate referrals, forecast and benchmark time away from work, and provide evidence-based medical decision support from existing claim dashboards. For more information, visit www.worklossdata.com.
Opta Information Intelligence
Opta Information Intelligence is Canada's largest aggregator of property risk information and leading provider of property intelligence and innovative technology solutions for the insurance industry. Opta offers new perspectives on key industry challenges and provides strategic insight to move insurance and risk professionals beyond traditional ways of doing business. Visit www.optaintel.ca to learn more.
Opta's vision to help insurers access, understand, and synthesize previously inaccessible information is a natural match with Guidewire's vision to improve efficiency and service delivery. With this partnership, the two companies are jointly revolutionizing information delivery. Together, we can help improve the understanding of business risk through state-of-the-art client experiences.
Risk Control Technologies
With more than 100 insurance organizations using its software solutions, Risk Control Technologies (RCT) is the leading provider of end-to-end loss control software in the United States and Canada. RCT helps insurers reduce risk, increase and improve customer engagements, and increase the value that loss control provides to both internal departments and external partners. RCT's SaaS product approach leverages a single price model, eliminating the cost overrun risks commonly associated with the development, implementation, and support of custom software. With regular enhancements and upgrades delivered free of charge, RCT give you the confidence that you are future-proofing your investment.
By partnering with Guidewire, RCT provides our common clients a seamless experience between underwriting, claims, and loss control. Key modules include planning/managing the consultant's book of business, offline tablet support, report and letter generation, recommendation management, data mining and reporting, and an insured portal. To learn more, visit www.riskcontroltech.com.
Safelite Solutions
As an industry leader, Safelite Solutions provides comprehensive, end-to-end claims management solutions for more than 200 insurance and fleet clients, including 18 of the top 30 property and casualty insurance companies. From the First Notice of Loss contact to claim completion, reporting, and customer analytics, we are a trusted partner to our clients for glass, auto physical damage, property, digital solutions, and roadside assistance. This combination of innovation and commitment to enhancing the claims experience makes Safelite the preferred choice to support and grow our clients' businesses.
Safelite Solutions, in partnership with the Guidewire PartnerConnect program, is pleased to offer Safelite Claims accelerators, which result in faster implementation and integration with Guidewire ClaimCenter. With Guidewire, we share more than 15 insurance partners across North America. Our scalable, flexible architecture enables easier integration and supports growth with minimal investment.
For almost three decades, the insurance industry has partnered with SambaSafety for the insights needed to assess driver risk. More than 5,000 clients rely on SambaSafety to deliver proven solutions, quality data, and analytics products that assist them in understanding and managing driver risk across their book of business—lead, quote, bind, and renew.
Our PolicyWatch™ solution for Guidewire PolicyCenter™ gives insurers a strategic advantage by delivering actionable driver insights that inform quotes and optimize MVR spend, enabling an agent or insurer to use violation data or order MVRs only when violation activity is present. PolicyWatch provides the ability to efficiently configure violation activity triggers and uses advanced rules to prescreen an individual's violation history for actionable activities that drive premium or identify driver risk. The solution is cost effective when used to inform leads or quotes, helps increase close/bind rates, and delivers on the promise of a more accurate and satisfying consumer purchase experience. Visit www.sambasafety.com.
ServicePower is a leading field service management software company focused on providing an exceptional customer experience, while delivering significant operational efficiencies. Trusted by field service organizations around the world—including AIG, Allstate, Liberty Mutual, and USAA—ServicePower offers a SaaS platform that helps companies efficiently manage a blended workforce of employed and contracted technicians.
ServicePower enables field service organizations to deliver faster and smarter service to customers, through a field service management suite. The ServicePower accelerator for Guidewire ClaimCenter enables two-way updates between ServicePower and Guidewire throughout the lifecycle of the assignment, including status updates, rescheduling, and cancellation. It ensures the needed visibility to the adjusters, dispatchers, and claims managers in the back office. The accelerator uses schedule and route optimization to ensure that the best adjuster with the most up-to-date information, at the least cost, is dispatched for claims assessment within the least amount of time. All optimization is AI-based, which ensures that the best schedule and route are selected to optimize adjuster productivity.
For more information, visit www.servicepower.com.
Shift Technology
Shift Technology delivers AI-native fraud detection and claims automation solutions built specifically for the global insurance industry. Our SaaS solutions identify both individual and network fraud. They also provide contextual guidance to help insurers achieve faster, more accurate claim resolutions.
For more than 50 years, Vertafore, a leader in modern insurance technology, has built and supported superior insurtech solutions to connect every point of the distribution channel—including more than 1,000 insurers, more than 20,000 agencies, and 23 state governments.
Vertafore's connectivity solutions help insurers exchange information and documents with agents, drawing insights from the data to improve products and distribution. The company leads the distribution-modernization movement and gives insurers the tools to onboard, license, and pay producers across channels, while improving ease of doing business across all agent touch points. And Vertafore's content management solution helps insurers simplify and automate the document-driven workflows unique to the insurance space.
Vertafore is proud to be a Guidewire PartnerConnect Solution partner, creating accelerators that enable integration to Vertafore Distribution Management Suite via TransactNOW. Learn more at www.vertafore.com.
PartnerConnect | Affiliation
Guidewire has relationships with various industry associations that benefit our customers.
ACORD (Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development) is a global, nonprofit organization serving the insurance industry. ACORD facilitates the development of open consensus data standards and standard forms, and works with its members and partner organizations to drive implementation of those standards. www.acord.org
CSIO (Centre for Study of Insurance Operations) is Canada's technology association of P&C insurers, software providers, and more than 36,000 brokers. CSIO improves the consumer's ease of doing business within the broker channel by overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of technology standards and solutions such as eDocs, My Proof of Insurance eDelivery, and eSignatures. In addition, CSIO operates CSIOnet, an industry-owned platform for the efficient exchange of policy information between partners. To learn more, visit www.csio.com.
DARVA gathers together the various stakeholders of the French market for car, home and health insurance. DARVA offers services and innovative fully secure solutions to simplify communications between information systems of insurers and their partners: brokers, independent experts, repair shops, etc. DARVA and Guidewire have partnered to create the necessary interfaces for an optimal, integrated claims management process. www.darva.com
The Insurance Accounting & Systems Association, Incorporated (IASA) is a non-profit, education association that strives to enhance the knowledge of insurance professionals, and participants from similar organizations closely allied with the insurance industry by facilitating the exchange of ideas and information. www.iasa.org
ISO is a leading source of information about property/casualty insurance risk. For a broad spectrum of commercial and personal lines of insurance, ISO provides statistical, actuarial, underwriting, and claims information; policy language; information about specific locations; fraud-identification tools; and technical services. In the United States and around the world, ISO helps customers protect people, property, and financial assets. ISO is a member of the Verisk Analytics Family of Companies. www.iso.com
PartnerConnect | Infrastructure
Infrastructure partners offer software and hardware technology infrastructure to our mutual customers.
Amazon Web Services
Guidewire is a member of APN, the Amazon Web Services partner network. Guidewire works with AWS to host and integrate Guidewire solutions on the AWS platform. aws.amazon.com/
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 System p and System x server families, the AIX operating system, Cognos Business Intelligence tools for reporting and WebSphere Application Server. www.ibm.com
Guidewire has now enabled its ClaimCenter solution on the IBM PureApplication System. Optimization on IBM PureSystems empowers our joint customers to realize improved time to value with faster deployment, consolidated servers and application workloads achieve efficiencies in resource usage, improved performance, and reduced system management complexity.
Guidewire works with Microsoft to ensure that Guidewire's products are optimized with Microsoft solutions including SQL Server and geocoding offerings. www.microsoft.com
Guidewire is a member of OPN, Oracle's partner network. Guidewire works with Oracle to ensure that Guidewire's products are optimized with Oracle's solutions including Java, WebLogic Server, and Oracle Database offerings. www.oracle.com