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Guidewire's (GWRE) Garmisch Enhances Insurance Lifecycle

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Guidewire (GWRE - Free Report) announced the launch of its new cloud release, Garmisch, which provides a range of new capabilities and enhancements to Property and casualty (P&C) insurers. Guidewire plans to launch Garmisch to increase its “cloud release cadence” from two to three releases each year to improve customer experience.

The release broadens Guidewire's comprehensive, product-driven approach to P&C insurance processing to include every stage of the insurance lifecycle, from planning the product to handling and resolving claims.

Garmisch includes Advanced Product Designer to create dynamic claims experiences, integration templates, a revamped user interface for Integration Gateway and an expanded Guidewire GO content for commercial lines. The Guidewire GO content is a library of pre-packaged product line models to accelerate the product creation process.

Garmisch also provides insurers with self-service tools on the Guidewire Cloud Console and new data connectors from leading global data platforms. It also features a ClaimCenter Software Development Kit on the Jutro Digital Platform, enabling insurers to create and deploy automatically produced digital experiences completely integrated with InsuranceSuite.

Garmisch includes a new HazardHub Fire Suppression Score, allowing underwriters and actuaries to assess the potential risk of fire damage for individual locations and make more informed decisions on the risk exposure of single structures, added the company. Also, the addition of a new parametric insurance solution by Garmisch will help insurers close the coverage gap, lower risk, and minimize cost-to-serve for parametric lines of business.

The new cloud release was launched on Apr 3, 2023. Overall, Garmisch provides insurers with new capabilities and enhancements to drive growth and efficiency across the insurance lifecycle.

Guidewire continues to develop its cloud platform with new features such as digital frameworks, automation, tooling and other cloud services. In December, the company announced that EasySend’s new Ready for Guidewire accelerator is available in the company’s Marketplace. The EasySend accelerator for Guidewire ClaimCenter helps P&C insurers to effectively develop the First Notice of Loss process without the need for any forms and PDFs.

Presently, Guidewire carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). Shares of the company have lost 13.9% compared with the sub-industry’s decline of 21.5% in the past year.

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