Leading regional property and casualty insurance group to leverage
Guidewire Core and Data products to modernize its business and increase
efficiency
MARIETTA, Pa. & FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 14, 2019--
Donegal Insurance Group, a group of insurance companies providing full
lines of commercial and personal insurance products, and Guidewire
Software, Inc. (NYSE: GWRE), provider of the industry platform Property
and Casualty (P&C) insurers rely upon, today announced that Donegal has
selected Guidewire InsurancePlatform™ Core and Data products* to replace
legacy systems and modernize the way it does business. The company will
implement the products for all of its lines of business, beginning with
workers’ compensation, followed by its other commercial lines, and
concluding with personal lines. Guidewire PartnerConnect™ Consulting
member Ernst & Young LLP (EY) will support the implementation with
Guidewire.
“We view Guidewire as the industry leader in P&C software and have
developed a very close relationship with Guidewire through our past
ClaimCenter and BillingCenter product implementations. These factors
played a huge role in our selection process,” said Michael Simms, AVP,
Information Technology, at Donegal. “By selecting Guidewire for our
policy administration and data analytics platforms, we will be able to
streamline our workflows and significantly enhance processing
efficiency. We feel that Guidewire’s product and technology roadmaps are
closely aligned with Donegal’s business and growth strategies and that
the Guidewire platform will support our current and future technology
needs,” added Sanjay Pandey, SVP and CIO at Donegal.
“The EY team is excited to work with Donegal on this next phase of their
transformation journey,” said Rajcan Surface, Principal, Ernst & Young
LLP. “We look forward to a successful implementation of these projects.”
“We are humbled that Donegal has extended its relationship with
Guidewire and applaud its recognition of the advantages the additional
InsurancePlatform Core and Data products will have in running its
business,” said Steve Sherry, Chief Sales Officer, Guidewire Software.
“We admire the company’s mission of focusing on excellent customer
service, fair claims handling, underwriting profitability, and
innovative marketing through the independent agency system, and look
forward to helping the company continue to adapt and succeed in a
rapidly-changing insurance marketplace.”
*Donegal Insurance Group selected Guidewire PolicyCenter™, Guidewire
Client Data Management™, Guidewire Product Content Management™,
Guidewire Rating Management™, and Guidewire Reinsurance Management™ as
its new underwriting, policy administration, client data, product
content, rating, and reinsurance management systems. With the selection
of PolicyCenter, the company is now a full Guidewire InsuranceSuite™
customer, having previously deployed Guidewire ClaimCenter™ in 2007 and
Guidewire BillingCenter™ in 2015. Donegal Insurance Group also selected
Guidewire DataHub™ and Guidewire InfoCenter™ for enterprise-wide data
management and business intelligence. In addition, the company selected
Guidewire Predictive Analytics™ to embed predictive insights into
ClaimCenter and PolicyCenter, creating a Smart
Core™ system.
About Donegal Insurance Group
Donegal Insurance Group offers property and casualty lines of insurance
in 26 Mid-Atlantic, Midwestern, New England, Southern and Southwestern
states. Donegal Insurance Group consists of Donegal Mutual Insurance
Company and its insurance subsidiaries as well as the insurance
subsidiaries of Donegal Group Inc., a publicly traded insurance holding
company (NASDAQ:DGICA) and (NASDAQ:DGICB). Donegal Insurance Group has
an A.M. Best rating of A (Excellent). For more information, please
visit: www.donegalgroup.com.
About Guidewire Software
Guidewire delivers the industry platform that Property and Casualty
(P&C) insurers rely upon to adapt and succeed in a time of accelerating
change. We provide the software, services, and partner ecosystem to
enable our customers to run, differentiate, and grow their business. We
are privileged to serve more than 350 companies in 32 countries. For
more information, please visit www.guidewire.com
and follow us on twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.
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Diana Stott
Director, Communications
Guidewire Software, Inc.
+1.650.356.4941
dstott@guidewire.com
