INSURANCE TECHNOLOGY

Guidewire Software Announces Promotion of PartnerConnect Consulting Partner, Exavalu, Inc.

Guidewire | June 10, 2021

Exavalu, Inc. is promoted to PartnerConnect Consulting Select partner by Guidewire Software, Inc.; the platform P&C insurers rely on to engage, innovate, and expand effectively. There are three relationship tiers in the PartnerConnect Consulting partner program: Select, Advantage, and Global Premier. The levels are designed to award partners based on their accomplishments and contributions, such as insurance sector expertise, the number of Guidewire certified employees, and specialization achievement.

Exavalu, Inc. is a consulting company focused on the insurance industry that serves as a trusted adviser to significant property and casualty insurers on core and digital transformation. Exavalu’s global Guidewire practice comprises seasoned experts with several years of implementation expertise in the Guidewire suite of products, including InsuranceSuite, Digital, Data, and InsuranceNow, along with Guidewire Cloud, Guidewire’s cloud services.

“We congratulate Exavalu, Inc. on its well-deserved promotion to Select partner within our PartnerConnect program,” stated Lisa Walsh, vice president of Alliances at Guidewire Software. “We are delighted to recognize Exavalu Inc.’s proven implementation experience throughout Guidewire’s suite of products, and we look forward to strengthening our collaboration in serving our mutual and valued customers.”

About Exavalu, Inc.
Exavalu, Inc. is a consulting firm focusing on the insurance business that serves as a trusted advisor to leading Property & Casualty insurers on Core and Digital Transformation. We assist insurance carriers in executing their market growth, profitability, cost-cutting, risk management, and innovation strategies. Our global team of highly experienced Insurance business and technology SMEs provides carriers with advisory and implementation services on core modernization, customer experience enhancement, integration, automation, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and cloud migration and engineering.

About Guidewire PartnerConnect
Guidewire PartnerConnect Consulting partners offer business transformation and strategy consulting and implementation and related solution and delivery services. Guidewire Consulting practices now have over 12,000 consultants globally that have been trained or have expertise with Guidewire products. Guidewire PartnerConnect is a program that is exclusively available via invitation.

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