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Overview

Guidewire Cloud Data


Guidewire Cloud Data Access is a data service
that gives Guidewire Cloud customers secure
Access
access to all raw (uncurated) Guidewire
InsuranceSuite data, including all intra-daily
changes at a low latency. > Augment your enterprise data strategy with
Guidewire Cloud Data Access.

Unlock Unlimited Potential with Data


Benefits
• Extract new value from core systems data If you’re an insurer, access to transactional core systems data is absolutely critical to
augment and support your enterprise-wide data strategy. This is even more critical for
• Feed enterprise data warehouses and data lakes core systems deployed in the cloud. Modern core systems generate a lot of data and
must be able to share this data with downstream systems efficiently.
• Support downstream system integrations
In the past, customers created database replicas, wrote custom queries, and performed
complicated extract, transform, load (ETL) operations. This is often a very costly
Features
endeavor for most insurers. Business users today demand secure access to core systems
• Streaming access to all raw (uncurated) data in near-real time and with all intra-daily changes. Looking at the status of a claim or
Guidewire InsuranceSuite data a submission at the end of each day is no longer sufficient. In addition, data is needed
for custom operational and financial reporting, for feeding enterprise data warehouses
• Secure access with intra-daily changes at a low
and data lakes, and for supporting downstream system integrations.
latency
Guidewire Cloud Data Access is a data service that is enabled by Guidewire Data
• Data available in easy-to-understand and use
Platform and that provides secure access to all raw (uncurated) Guidewire
parquet file format InsuranceSuite data, including all intra-daily changes at a low latency.
• Support for schema evolution This service is included with the Guidewire Cloud subscription.

• Part of the Guidewire Cloud subscription


Guidewire Cloud Data Access

Extract New Value from Core Systems Data

Cloud Data Access is hosted in Guidewire Cloud on the Amazon Web Services (AWS)
platform. Each instance communicates with a single InsuranceSuite database that is also
deployed in Guidewire Cloud. Cloud Data Access executes an initial bulk load to capture
existing historical data in the InsuranceSuite database and loads this data into Amazon
S3. After this initial load, it captures incremental changes.

Guidewire Cloud Data Access


Data extraction and streaming occur in near-real time by enabling change data capture
(CDC) against the source database tables. CDC is a common database feature that
captures information about all database change activity. Cloud Data Access supports
Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, and PostgreSQL.

Guidewire Data Platform uses Apache Kafka to build a real-time data pipeline. It streams
data (initial and incremental) into a Kafka topic. Additionally, schema changes are
Guidewire Data Platform
automatically identified and marked with metadata as the data streams into Kafka.
Subsequently, Cloud Data Access automatically accounts for these changes.

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Guidewire Cloud Data Access

Cloud Data Access then executes an Apache Spark job on an Amazon EMR cluster to in
an Amazon S3 bucket. Cloud Data Access guarantees that there are no duplicate records.
It also supports additive, nondestructive changes to schema by identifying the schema
change in the source database and assigning a unique schema fingerprint.

For each connector to an InsuranceSuite database, Cloud Data Access creates an S3


bucket with AES256 encryption. Cloud Data Access writes extracted data into S3 in the
“Analytics is a top priority for
Apache Parquet format. The Parquet format is a machine-readable binary format that
innovation, but making data useful efficiently represents complex nested data structures in a column-oriented way that
is the big challenge.” enables high performance in storage and processing.

—Novarica For each table in the InsuranceSuite database, Cloud Data Access creates a table-specific
folder in S3. In each table’s folder, it groups data by the schema’s fingerprint. In each
fingerprint folder, it further groups data according to the time that it completed writing
data into S3. For each incremental fetch, Cloud Data Access writes newly extracted data
into new folders that are named with the time stamp when it completed writing this
new data into S3.

Cloud Data Access also creates and maintains a manifest.json file at the same level as
table-specific folders. This file contains metadata about the replication process to
understand the S3 content that can be safely consumed. The manifest is continuously
updated to reflect the successful delivery of new incremental data into an S3 folder.

About Guidewire Data Platform After Cloud Data Access has successfully written data into an S3 folder, customers can
download this data into their self-managed environments to support any downstream
The Guidewire Data Platform is a P&C data integration use cases, such as reporting and data warehousing. Customers can use
insurance–specific data repository and factory their own application to download the data or can leverage the Guidewire Cloud Data
that continuously collects data from internal Access Client reference implementation, which has been made available as on open-
and external sources and provides analytical source GitHub repository.
insights across the insurance lifecycle.
Guidwire configures and manages the data pipeline, and customers can access only the
contents of their own S3 bucket. Cloud Data Access secures the S3 bucket with Amazon
Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and bucket policies along with Amazon Key
Management Service (KMS) to protect your data.

Guidewire Cloud Data Access gathers InsuranceSuite data at the right scale and tempo
to best position insurers in today’s competitive environment. It provides secure data
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and access at a low latency to augment your enterprise data strategy and extract new value.
grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our
platform as a cloud service. More than 380 insurers, from new ventures
to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire. © 2020 Guidewire Software, Inc. For more information about Guidewire’s trademarks,
For more information, contact us at [email protected]. visit http://guidewire.com/legal-notices. Document Published: 2020-07-21

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