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 AWSCloudCoE@cognizant.com

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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