VOKOL Guidewire Upgrade Factory provides customers with seamless upgrades and a foundation for innovation. Our approach to Guidewire upgrades is based on our deep knowledge of the insurance business and extensive Guidewire expertise

The planning and deployment phases of our upgrade approach are designed to address:

• Infrastructure

  defining the necessary adjustments, changes and upgrades to operating system, web server, database, memory, CPU and hardware; determining the supporting environments required for the upgrade

• Database

  upgrading data from current Guidewire application to target upgrade version; identifying and resolving data validation issues, current data model extensions that may conflict with new fields introduced by the upgrade

• Configuration

  resolving configuration conflicts, merging configuration, and updating deprecated Gosu methods and classes; obtaining buy-in from the business for changes to workflow and/or user interfaces brought on by the newer version

• Conversion

  fixing data issues and mapping to align with data model schema changes

• Integration

  updating deprecated plug-in methods and classes, Gosu methods and classes, and entity domain methods; refactoring the code to use new or updated application programming interfaces and, at times, a new integration architecture

• Reporting

  handling adjustments due to changes in data structures or extending existing models to incorporate new data elements in latest version; ETL changes and extending custom data mart and cubes data mart