Introducing Jutro Digital Platform: Empowering Front-End Developers for Rapid P&C Web Experiences on Guidewire Cloud

Guilherme Abreu
4 min readJul 17, 2023

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Introduction

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, insurance companies are constantly striving to enhance their customer experiences while maintaining operational efficiency. Guidewire, a leading provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, has stepped up to address these challenges with the introduction of their groundbreaking Jutro Digital Platform. This comprehensive suite of purpose-built tools, services, and features empowers front-end developers to build unique and engaging property and casualty (P&C) web experiences on Guidewire Cloud. In this blog post, we will explore the features and benefits of Jutro and how it empowers Experince Designers and Developers to rapidly design, develop, and deploy web applications.

Purpose-Built Tools and Services

Jutro Digital Platform is a comprehensive suite of purpose-built tools, services, and features tailored specifically for P&C web development. It includes the Guidewire design system, a robust set of design guidelines and best practices that ensure a consistent and coherent user interface across applications. By leveraging the design system, front-end developers can quickly understand and implement design requirements, reducing development cycles and enhancing productivity.

New Web Application Framework and SDK

Jutro introduces a new web application framework and software development kit (SDK) that simplifies the development process. The framework provides a solid foundation with a wide range of tools, libraries, and reusable components. Front-end developers can easily leverage this powerful framework to build highly functional and visually appealing web applications. The Jutro SDK further enhances coding productivity, allowing developers to integrate their applications with Guidewire’s Cloud API and deploy them on the Guidewire Cloud in minutes.

Pre-Designed Templates and Reference Experiences

To expedite the development process, Jutro offers a catalogue of pre-designed templates and reference experiences. With Jutro App Admin, a management dashboard embedded in the Guidewire Cloud Console, developers can quickly create new Jutro web apps and micro-frontends based on these templates. This jumpstarts application development and enables teams to focus on customizing the user experience, navigation flow, persona-specific features, UI layout, theming, and more.

Streamlined Deployment and Infrastructure Management

Jutro Digital Platform removes the burden of managing infrastructure from developers’ shoulders. It enables front-end developers to focus on building and shipping software based on user needs rather than worrying about infrastructure setup and maintenance. By securely accessing application code repositories in Bitbucket and utilizing CI/CD pipelines in Teamcity, developers can deploy their applications within minutes using a live URL and with no complex configuration required.

Integration with Guidewire Cloud and APIs

Web applications built with Jutro Digital Platform seamlessly leverage the power of the Guidewire Cloud ecosystem. This includes secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure, end-to-end analytics, and access to the InsuranceSuite Cloud API. By tapping into these resources, developers can enhance their applications with advanced functionality and deliver a superior user experience to policyholders, agents, service representatives, and other stakeholders in the P&C industry.

Where to Start?

As a UX Designer, you can follow the learning path below to deepen your skills and knowledge:

Reference: https://education.guidewire.com/public_content/guidewire/edadmin/notificationFiles/Jutro UX Designer Learning Path.pdf

This path empowers Business Analysts and Experience Designers to learn and deliver branded, personalized, and delightful user experiences on the Guidewire Cloud Platform (GWCP).

As a Jutro Developer, you can follow the learning path below:

Reference: https://education.guidewire.com/public_content/guidewire/edadmin/notificationFiles/Jutro Developer.pdf

This path teaches Digital configuration developers about the Jutro Design System and UI Framework. Like the designers’ path, this course prepares to deliver GWCP experiences.

Professionals can find those paths at the Guidewire Education Platform.

Conclusion

Guidewire Jutro Digital Platform empowers front-end developers to rapidly design, develop, and deploy unique P&C web experiences on the Guidewire Cloud. By providing purpose-built tools, a new web application framework and SDK, pre-designed templates, and reference experiences, Jutro streamlines the design-to-development process and enables teams to focus on delivering exceptional web applications. With Jutro, developers can leverage the full potential of the Guidewire ecosystem, ensuring that their applications are secure, scalable, and optimized for the evolving needs of the P&C insurance industry.

You can find more information about Guidewire Jutro Digital Platform at: https://developer.guidewire.com/guidewire-jutro/

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