gwre industry computer software and hardware founded 2001 headquarters foster city california united states products computer software website http www.guidewire.com guidewire software inc. commonly guidewire is a software publisher based in foster city california . it offers core back end software for property and casualty p & c insurance carriers in the u.s. and worldwide 1 as well as the guidewire live suite of online analytics services for p & c insurers . 2 in september 2011 guidewire filed with the sec to raise up to 100 million in an initial public offering ipo and first publicly traded on the nyse in january 2012 . 3 guidewire was later cited as being one of the top ipos of 2012 4 even 1 . 5 the company has been cited as being among the 50 most desirable mid size bay area companies 101 to 500 employees to work for 2010 2012 6 and was in the top 50 large companies in the glassdoor best places to work for both 2015 and 2016 . 7 guidewire develops the gosu programming language it released as open source in 2010 . contents 1 business model 1.1 software 2 competitors 3 references 4 external links business model edit the company was established in 2001 founded by six people ken branson james kwak john raguin and marcus ryu from ariba and mckinsey where james and marcus had met ; and john seybold and mark shaw from kana software . they are a recurring revenue software company as they sell term licenses . its three main software products are claimcenter policycenter and billingcenter each servicing a major component of a p & c insurance carrier . 1 there are a number of add on modules as well as an increasing number of value added online services provided via guidewire live . software edit guidewire insurance suite provides an end to end set of applications that support insurance operations underwriting policy administration billing and claims management . the insurance suite applications are a set of common platform modules that cover the property and casualty insurance life cycle and typically replace legacy systems developed internally by insurance carriers ... competitors edit competitors include duck creek technologies ibm codeobjects computer sciences corporation ebaotech corporation insurity iscs epam majescomastek oneshield socotra stoneriver valuemomentum ntt data ndfs firstgen firstre and firstlife xuber fineos corporation capgemini and niit technologies advantage suite references edit a b guidewire software inc. . bloomberg businessweek . december 24 2010 . retrieved december 24 2010 . guidewire live guidewire ceo exhilarated after ipo success . 25 january 2012 . bay area s 2012 ipos bring joy pain . 18 december 2012 . mitroff sarah 19 december 2012 . 9 things 2012 s lousy ipo market showed us . wired . bloomberg news . april 26 2012 . glassdoor s employees choice awards 2016 . december 15 2015 . external links edit guidewire s home page this article about an it related or software related company or corporation is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title guidewire software & oldid 743027412 categories software companies based in californiasoftware companies established in 2001companies based in san mateo county californiacompanies listed on the new york stock exchangeinformation technology company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 october 2016 at 09 42 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view