Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE) announced that 14 specializations have been awarded to nine Guidewire PartnerConnect Consulting partners.

The PartnerConnect Consulting partners achieving specializations in the fourth quarter of Guidewire’s fiscal year 2022 are:

• Alchemy: Cloud Ready – EMEA
• CGI: BillingCenter; PolicyCenter; and InsuranceSuite – EMEA Global Delivery
• Cognizant: Cloud – AMER Global Delivery
• NXT: BillingCenter – AMER
• PwC: Cloud – EMEA Global Delivery
• Stratus: Cloud Ready – AMER
• TCS: Digital – EMEA
• ValueMomentum: Testing Standards
• Zensar: DataHub; DataHub+; PolicyCenter; InsuranceSuite – AMER

“We extend our congratulations to the nine PartnerConnect Consulting partners who have achieved Guidewire specializations in our recently concluded fiscal fourth quarter,” said Lisa Walsh, group vice president, Global Consulting Alliances, Guidewire. “These partners have worked diligently and have attained success in helping our mutual customers accelerate innovation and we are pleased to recognize these efforts.”

Specializations are both regionally and globally based and require partners to demonstrate skills, knowledge, and competency in a specific Guidewire product or solution, as validated by Guidewire certification achievements. The attainment of specializations enables insurers to have more clarity and insight into which partners have proven capabilities in a specific region or product. In addition, partners with specializations can better promote their capabilities across Guidewire products and solutions. Guidewire PartnerConnect Consulting partners have now achieved 151 specializations.

Guidewire Education offers multiple certification options for business analysts, quality analysts, and developers including Certified Associate and Certified Ace designations for cloud projects. These cloud certifications, which are required for partners to achieve Guidewire Cloud specializations, help customers identify cloud-ready talent.

Please find more information about specializations on the Guidewire website here.

About Guidewire PartnerConnect

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 18,900+ consultants who have been trained or are experienced in Guidewire products. Guidewire PartnerConnect is an invitation-only program.

For more information about Guidewire PartnerConnect please visit https://www.guidewire.com/partnerconnect.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. ​We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. Approximately 520 insurers in 38 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record, with 1,000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

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