Chief Product Development Officer, Guidewire Software
Search every verified Diego Devalle interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. During a September 2023 keynote at Guidewire Connection, Diego Devalle discussed the company's cloud transformation strategy and the launch of its "FL" release. He described the company's approach as leveraging insurance with FL as a core, introducing an API-first approach, and using cloud transformation as a foundation for innovation. Devalle stated that FL was the company's sixth release in less than six years, and that more releases had been completed in the previous three years than in the prior ten. He noted that upgrades, which previously took eight months, now take less than a week using Snowcat automation, and that the company had automated code merging to ensure continuous testing and validation. Devalle also highlighted several new capabilities in the FL release, including self-service features, standardized high-volume quoting configuration to support scaling from 10 to 100 million quotes per year, and new solution packages for usage-based insurance, micro and embedded insurance, and retention. He introduced a new feature called Community Power Predict for claims subrogation and discussed the Explore platform, which he described as offering near real-time streaming data and operational insights. Devalle stated that these developments allow customers to implement new lines of business and ideas more quickly.
“Our strategy was simple: leverage insurance with FL as a core, introduce an API-first approach surrounded by a cloud-native extension, and ultimately leverage cloud transformation as a foundation for innovation.”
“With FL, many of the new capabilities are exactly self-service enabled, allowing customers to spend more time managing business rather than managing infrastructure.”
“Today we're launching FL, our best release; this is our sixth release in less than six years, and we've done more releases in the last 3 years than the previous 10.”
“Upgrades used to take eight months; now with Snowcat automation, upgrades take less than a week, enabling continuous testing and release validation.”
“We have automated the code merge with Snowcat, which ensures every customer implementation continues to compile, build, deploy, and run with automated testing covering both technical and functional correctness.”
“With FL, we standardized high volume quoting configuration to help customers scale from 10 to 100 million quotes per year without performance penalty.”
“Community Power Predict will make Insurance Suite much smarter; today we are introducing Community Powers claims subrogation for Claim Center leveraging pre-built predictive level scores.”
“Explore has been a critical differentiator of our Cloud solution since the very beginning, offering near real-time streaming data and instant operational insights with 18 dashboards for claims and underwriting analysis.”
“Instead of spending months doing upgrades, now customers can do it in days, enabling faster innovation and efficiency gains.”
“Guidewire will allow us to implement new lines quicker and implement new ideas faster, so faster is better.”
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