Guidewire Software, Inc., a provider of solutions forproperty/casualty insurers, has announced the release of GuidewirePolicyCenter 3.0, a comprehensive all-lines underwriting and policyadministration system.

Guidewire PolicyCenter 3.0 is a Web-based system of recordoptimized to: make it easier for producers to do business withinsurance carriers with responsive collaboration, improveunderwriting results leveraging business-rules-driven automationand process management, and bring new products to market quicklythrough core policy system flexibility.

This third major release of PolicyCenter consolidates a largenumber of refinements reflecting implementation and productionexperiences of insurers engaged in an early customer program overthe past three years.

"Our job at Guidewire is to ensure our customers have the bestbusiness technology solutions possible to address the challenges ofoptimizing their mission-critical core operations in a fiercelycompetitive, ever-changing environment," says Ken Branson, vicepresident, engineering, Guidewire Software. "PolicyCenter 3.0brings us a big step closer to achieving this, and with ongoingsupport and input from leading insurers, we will continue to refineand enhance all of our products to ensure they are the best theycan be."