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Our four brave adventurers are ready to step into the fascinating land of #guidewire Connections in Nashville🎸 With only two days to spare, they have already packed their travel sacks and are eagerly waiting to mount the giant metal bird that will take them to the Land of #insurance ✈️ It is time, then, to lay their cards on the digital table🎴They reveal what Healer Kuba Matraj, Barbarian Rafał Durasiewicz 🇵🇱🤝🇺🇦, Bard Michał Stanik and Mage Arkadiusz (Arek) Baran have been through and what they are capable of💪 Safe travels everyone and see you at #GuidewireConnections 🫡

With the #GuidewireConnections mission about to begin, it is time to introduce the four main Acini players 💥 🪕Bard Michał Stanik: he will spin a fascinating tale of the intricate Lloyd's landscape and just as easily delegate the tasks to send you on the right path to achieve your goal with his deep knowledge of the #LondonMarket labyrinths. ⚔️Barbarian Rafał Durasiewicz 🇵🇱🤝🇺🇦 You can always count on this #Guidewire-clad warrior to shield the team from dangers, share close to two decades of expert knowledge and motivate all of us to persevere! ⚕️Healer Kuba Matraj: he will use his knowledge of #insurance business processes to heal any inefficient system and prescribe you a pill of London Market knowledge which will not be hard to swallow. 🪄Mage Arkadiusz (Arek) Baran: Drawing from the know-how of multiple projects, this digital wizard is on a never-ending quest for the Holy Grail of #userexperience. The four of them together form a formidable (and fun-loving) team of merry adventurers with a treasury💎 of skills, wisdom and bravery to the Great Guidewire Gathering in Nashville. They are ready to take on any mission you will entrust them with!🧭

What a (hairy) plot twist! Most of you were of the opinion, that Acini guys would wear wigs to stand out during #Guidewire Connections in Nashville. For no apparent reason, Rafał Durasiewicz 🇵🇱🤝🇺🇦 took it personally 😏 We will not reveal the truth today...but we will give you a little hint in one of the posts coming up soon from Rafał, Kuba Matraj, Michał Stanik or Arkadiusz (Arek) Baran 💡 Keep your eyes peeled 👀

Acini's third anniversary in London behind us... Guidewire Connections in Nashville before us🎸🎸🎸 Looking at the agenda, Rafał Durasiewicz 🇵🇱🤝🇺🇦 Kuba Matraj Arkadiusz (Arek) Baran and Michał Stanik will be torn between soaking in all the keynotes, demos and sessions versus spending as much time as they can catching up and networking🤝 #guidewireconnections is a massive, exciting #insurance industry event with thousands of attendees. That is why this year we made sure we are easily spotted. Can you guess how? 🤔 The question in this little poll is: How will Acini stand out during Guidewire Connections in Nashville 2024?🌟

Our recent visit to London was very special. It was a culmination of months of preparations... for Acini's 3rd Birthday Party🎉   There were balloons, toasts, a fierce pub quiz competition expertly run by Roger Foord, singing and chatting🎈   But most of all there were many, many guests, who could have done anything else on this Tuesday evening, but decided to spend it with us 🫶🏻   Thank you for celebrating this important day with us and see you next year🤗We are already thinking of a bigger venue, because as we grow, our circle of friends in the UK grows as well!🏟️   #insurance #LondonMarket #celebration #UK

In this edition of 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 ... 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤? we follow Bart Wabiński, our Head of London Market IT&Business Consulting, into the world of Managing Agents and General Managing Agents to find out exactly what differentiates them from each other 🤔 🔍 Managing Agent vs. Managing General Agent (MGA): What’s the Difference in the London Insurance Market? In the context of the #LondonMarket, the roles of a Managing Agent and a Managing General Agent (MGA) are distinct, though they share some similarities. Here is a breakdown of their most prominent differences and similarities. 💼 Managing Agents:     Operate within Lloyd’s market.   Manage syndicates & deploy capital.   Bear #underwriting risk for syndicate members.   📊 MGAs:     Work with insurers outside (or inside) Lloyd’s.   Underwrite with delegated authority but don’t bear the risk.   Act as intermediaries for #insurance companies.   👉 Both specialize in niche markets and manage underwriting, but their roles and responsibilities differ significantly!

What do London Market and Claims have in common? Obviously The Insurance Network that organises this crucial #insurance conference, but also... Acini. We are deeply rooted in the specialty market in the UK and if you look at our customers, you can easily see that the #claims process is Acini's cup of tea🍵 All this is a long-winded way of saying that we would be exhibiting at the TIN #LondonMarketClaims. Our stand might... stand out this time, so you will probably be able to quickly find it! See you in London!

Optimizing Gosu Queries for Better Performance Let us share some techniques to enhance the performance of Gosu queries. 𝐔𝐬𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐬 When writing Gosu queries, always try to utilize indexed fields, as they significantly improve query #performance. 𝐄𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 If you’re using startsWith combined with ignoreCase, ensure you enable supportsLinguisticSearch on the column in the criteria for more efficient searches. 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 Use ViewEntity to load multiple related entities in a single query, reducing the number of separate calls to the database. 𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭 If you don’t need all fields from an entity, limit the number of columns retrieved by using the select method: 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘺.𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦(𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺).𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵({𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘯𝘴.𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩(𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺.𝘊𝘙𝘌𝘈𝘛𝘌𝘛𝘐𝘔𝘌_𝘗𝘙𝘖𝘗.𝘨𝘦𝘵())}) 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 Apply additional filtering at the #database level for better performance: 𝘷𝘢𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘺 = 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘺.𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦(𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺).𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵() 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘺.𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳(𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘍𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳("𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳", \ 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘺 -> {  𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘺.𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯(𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺#𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵).𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦(𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵#𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴, 𝘙𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱.𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴, 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴.𝘛𝘊_𝘞𝘐𝘛𝘏𝘋𝘙𝘈𝘞𝘕) })) There are many useful OOTB filters such as gw.api.web.policy.ViewablePolicyPeriodQueryFilter. 𝐁𝐲𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐭𝐬 If you’re loading a large number of records, you can bypass the Guidewire cache to prevent memory issues: 𝘷𝘢𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘺 = 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘺.𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦(𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺).𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵() 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘺.𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘊𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭(𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘊𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭.𝘉𝘠𝘗𝘈𝘚𝘚_𝘎𝘓𝘖𝘉𝘈𝘓_𝘊𝘈𝘊𝘏𝘌) 𝐀𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐋𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 A common mistake is using Iterable-specific methods, which can load the entire query result into memory. Instead, use these replacements for better performance: 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵() -> 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘏𝘢𝘴𝘌𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 -> 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘺 𝐋𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 If you need to process large data sets or only need a subset of records, limit the results by setting a page size: 𝘷𝘢𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘺 = 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘺.𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦(𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺).𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵() 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘳𝘺.𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘚𝘪𝘻𝘦(100) For batch processing you should use the OOTB method setChunkingById to safely modify records from a query without affecting the next chunks. 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐔𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 Often, you can improve performance by merging multiple separate queries into one using a union. Got other tips for optimizing Gosu queries? #guidewire

Before we officially start the weekend, let us reveal the right answer to our question in the poll: What is the architectural style of the Lloyd's building? Drumrolls please 🥁... The answer is BOWELLISM! Richard Rogers is the architect who designed the famous building in this modern, architectural style. It emphasizes the "inside" of a structure and Lloyd's is a prime example of that approach. Have you seen it in person? What did you think?

Making life easier for #insurers and insureds is an obvious ambition of ours that needs no further explanation. The ways in which we approach it, however, is a different story💡 For quite a while now, automating processes through RPA, IDP and now AI has been intertwined with system integrations, workflow orchestration and introducing new rules. All with the purpose of arriving at the ultimate process excellence🔄 We went a step further and built some bespoke #accelerators to elevate insurance with Advanced #ProcessAutomation. See below for a bird's eye view of our skills and a toolkit🛠️