COGNIZANT AWS CLOUD SERVICES GUIDEWIRE SOLUTION
DRIVE INNOVATION, STREAMLINE INSURANCE OPERATIONS AND REDUCE COSTS WITH COGNIZANT’S FULLY MANAGED GUIDEWIRE SOLUTIONS ON AWS
AT A GLANCE
Doing business in today’s digital
business era demands Property &
Casualty (P&C) companies to
transform their operations, leverage
powerful analytics and automation to
strengthen their position in the
market, enhance customer and
agent/broker relationships across
multiple channels to increase their
consumer base and continuously
deliver innovative products and
services.
Cognizant’s fully managed Guidewire
solution, delivered on Amazon Web
Services (AWS), provides insurers with
a comprehensive suite of core P&C
operations and administrative tools
with high availability, scalability and
cost control.
COGNIZANT’S GUIDEWIRE SOLUTION ON AWS
Cognizant’s Guidewire solution is a complete managed services
offering hosted on highly available, elastic and secure AWS
architecture.
KEY FEATURES
• Cloud Steps blueprint for rapid implementation
• Faster self-service and automated blueprint-based provisioning
• Integrated with Cloud360, Cognizant’s automated service
delivery framework for seamless delivery
• Built-in resiliency, availability and scalability
• Faster time-to-market
COGNIZANT’S APPROACH TO GUIDEWIRE ON CLOUD: CLOUD STEPS TRANSFORMATION FRAMEWORK
We enable your organization to transition core operations systems to
cloud seamlessly with Cognizant Cloud Steps Transformation
Framework. Cognizant Cloud Steps Transformation Framework
enables an agile, secure, hassle-free transformation with minimal
intrusion and maximum automation. This guided transformation is
Powered by Cognizant Cloud Steps Transformation Framework
powered by various accelerators such as pre-built solution
blueprints and patterns, migration tools, factory models,
performance dashboards, governance framework and integrated change management.
Cloud Steps uses a rich set of accelerators including the
Guidewire blueprint for rapid transformation; a pattern and
tool-based approach for reduced downtime; integrated
change management to drive risk-free transformation; built-in
governance for better control; and an overarching
transformation dashboard to provide complete insight.
COGNIZANT: A LEADER IN INSURANCE INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS
Cognizant serves 130 insurance clients globally and is an IT
partner for more than 30 insurance clients, providing
Guidewire-related services including end-to-end program-led
implementations, testing, data management, application
managed services, and upgrade services.
Guidewire InsuranceSuite™ provides the essential core
systems that support the P&C insurance lifecycle, including
underwriting, policy, billing and claims management. It is a
central source for all critical customer and financial data, rate
and product definitions, workflows and business rules across
all lines of business. It helps insurers enhance customer
and agent/broker relationships while simultaneously
growing profitability and enabling agile responses to
market threats or opportunities.
Cognizant’s Guidewire Center of Excellence invests in
capabilities, solution development and delivery
accelerators for the Guidewire InsuranceSuite. We also
maintain a knowledge repository to facilitate, capture,
and disseminate delivery best practices.
KEY BENEFITS AT A GLANCE
• Elastic, cost-controlled implementation with quicker
turnaround time
• Single source of facts for all customer, transactional
and financial data
• Enhanced security and disaster readiness options
with reduced total cost of ownership
• Automated support for straight-through work
processing, assignment and other tasks
CASE STUDY
AWS adoption for a U.S. based leader in the auto
insurance industry
Cloud-based applications enabled on the client’s
infrastructure with an elastic and cost-controlled
implementation helped the client to bring new products and
services to market quickly.
TRANSFORMATION BLUEPRINT
COGNIZANT’S GUIDEWIRE CAPABILITIES:
A SNAPSHOT
• 900+ Guidewire practitioners
• 250+Certified and trained consultants across Guidewire ClaimCenter, Billing Center, Policy Center, Datahub and Infocenter
• 34,650+Insurance-focused resources
• 15+Purpose built accelerators including G-Scan, G-Mart, RISE and Story Elaboration frameworks
COGNIZANT’S AWS EXPERTISE*
• 1500+ Trained AWS practitioners
• 180+ Clients transformed to AWS
• 40+ Transformation blueprints
• 60+ Clients managed
• 900+ Certified AWS professionals
*As of June 2017
ACCELERATE YOUR BUSINESS WITH AWS - COGNIZANT PARTNERSHIP Cognizant is a Premier Consulting Partner for AWS. Choose Cognizant and AWS to gain industry leading partners with proven solutions. We will blend our system integration capabilities, accelerators, frameworks, and toolkits with our advisory, implementation and managed services along with best-in-class AWS cloud computing technologies and services to deliver a reliable, flexible cloud infrastructure that will drive business acceleration and transform your organization.
For more information about how Cognizant’s AWS-based Guidewire solution will help your organization streamline operations and ensure rich engagement with customers and brokers across multiple channels, contact [email protected]
VALUE PROPOSITION OF AWS SERVICES AND COGNIZANT SERVICES
DeliveringFuture Ready
&Best-in-Class
Solutions
ServiceExcellence
TechnologyExcellence
Hassle free implementationBuilt-in automationProven servicemanagement framework
Proven Guidewire ExpertiseBest in Class cloud Platform - AWSNextGen ReadyEast of UseScalable and Secure
BusinessExcellence
Business agilityIT to value and time to marketLOB empowerment
CostLeadership
CAPEX to reduced OPEXWorkforce optimizationDo more with lessLicense cost optimization
Proven guidewire expertiseBest in class cloud platform - AWSNext Gen readyEase of useScalable and secure
ServiceExcellence
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