Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Chooses Capgemini to Partner on Strategic Systems Renewal
September 19 2018 - 1:30AM
Business Wire
End-to-end digital transformation will use
Guidewire Core and Digital products
The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company, the largest Canadian
Property and Casualty Mutual insurer, has retained
Capgemini to guide their Strategic Systems Renewal
program to its completion. The program employs Core and Digital
products from Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE: GWRE), provider of
the industry platform Property and Casualty (P&C) insurers rely
upon. This implementation is Capgemini’s largest insurance core
system transformation initiative in Canada.
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“We will benefit from the leadership capabilities Capgemini can
provide from its many years of experience with Guidewire and
insurance industry delivery knowledge, both with us, and many other
large organizations throughout North America,” said Carol Jardine,
President of Wawanesa Mutual’s Canadian P&C Operations. “Our
partnership will create more capacity within Wawanesa to deliver on
our 2018-2020 strategy and we will see more results – faster – with
the processes Capgemini will implement.”
Wawanesa’s business transformation covers the entire value chain
with implementations of Guidewire InsuranceSuite™, Guidewire Rating
Management™, Guidewire CustomerEngage™, and Guidewire
ProducerEngage™. The objectives of the transformation are to
streamline the way of doing business, accelerate speed to market,
and reduce operational costs.
“The key to a successful implementation at Wawanesa is two-fold:
true collaboration between Wawanesa, Guidewire and Capgemini as
well as our using Capgemini’s methodology which allows multiple
workstreams to be underway simultaneously providing quicker time to
market and more value,” said Shane Cassidy, Managing Director,
Insurance Business Unit, Capgemini.
Capgemini is also using its Applied Innovation Discover Center
in Toronto to hold highly collaborative Strategic Assessment
Workshops for Wawanesa. These workshops will establish governance
and ensure leadership is fully aligned to a common vision and
roadmap for Wawanesa’s digital transformation. The Applied
Innovation Discover Center is designed to encourage interaction and
creativity and is integral to this transformation.
Mike Polelle, Chief Delivery Officer, Guidewire, said,
“Capgemini is a leading systems integrator of Guidewire
InsurancePlatform™ products and we look forward to another
successful implementation as we team together on Wawanesa’s digital
transformation.”
About Capgemini
A global leader in consulting, technology services and digital
transformation, Capgemini is at the forefront of innovation to
address the entire breadth of clients’ opportunities in the
evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. Building on its
strong 50-year heritage and deep industry-specific expertise,
Capgemini enables organizations to realize their business ambitions
through an array of services from strategy to operations. Capgemini
is driven by the conviction that the business value of technology
comes from and through people. It is a multicultural company of
200,000 team members in over 40 countries. The Group reported
2017 global revenues of EUR 12.8 billion.
Visit us at www.capgemini.com. People matter, results count.
About The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company
The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company, founded in 1896, is
the largest Canadian Property and Casualty Mutual insurer with $3
billion in annual revenue and assets of more than $9 billion.
Wawanesa Mutual, with executive offices in Winnipeg, is the parent
company of Wawanesa General, which offers property and casualty
insurance in California and Oregon; Wawanesa Life, which provides
life insurance products and services throughout Canada; and Western
Financial Group, which distributes personal and business insurance
across Western Canada. With over 5,000 employees, Wawanesa proudly
serves over two million policyholders through nine regional offices
and 41 service offices in Canada and the United States. Wawanesa
actively gives back to organizations that strengthen communities
where it operates, donating well above internationally recognized
benchmarks for excellence in corporate philanthropy. Learn more at
www.wawanesa.com/canada/.
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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