Cloud APIs

Make Connections with InsuranceSuite Cloud API

Connect apps and services to InsuranceSuite on Guidewire Cloud Platform.

The InsuranceSuite Cloud API is a set of RESTful system APIs that client applications can use to request data from or initiate action within an InsuranceSuite application. Built specifically for use with Guidewire Cloud Platform, the InsuranceSuite Cloud API enables you to connect apps and services from your enterprise to Guidewire without the need to make changes to the code base. Powerful and flexible, the InsuranceSuite Cloud API offers:

• RESTful API access that exposes Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations on resources
• Easily execute your business flows and transactions
• Reduce cost and effort on upgrades
• The stable and versioned API supports non-breaking changes and seamless upgrades of client applications
• Auto generation of line of business (LOB) APIs provide access to your unique product configurations without coding

Please note that the line of business (LOB) specific API endpoints are generated through Advanced Product Designer flows and are not provided out of the box. Actual LOB endpoints are generated based on the customer-specific line, so customers can begin using them with low or no code.

Note: For PolicyCenter the API reference displays sample out-of-the-box endpoints for common lines of business. Auto-generated APIs for your unique lines of business will vary. InsuranceSuite provides native functionality to view the specific APIs in a configured environment using Swagger UI.

Select an API reference below, or visit the full library of Guidewire API documentation. 

View the API Within Your Environment

The endpoints and operations for every API are defined in Swagger files. The open source tool Swagger UI automatically presents this information as an interactive web page. Swagger UI is automatically bundled with InsuranceSuite Cloud applications that have the InsuranceSuite Cloud APIs. Easily view endpoints and transaction details for the out-of-the box ClaimCenter and PolicyCenter API, as well as auto-generated APIs from PolicyCenter.

View the API using Swagger UI

Procedure for PolicyCenter

1. Start PolicyCenter.
2. In a web browser, enter the URL for Swagger UI. This loads the Swagger UI tool.
   - The format of the URL is <applicationURL>/resources/swagger-ui/
3. In the text field at the top of the Swagger UI interface, enter the URL that points to the desired API’s swagger.json file. Then, click Explore. For example:
   - To view the common API, enter: <applicationURL>/rest/common/v1/swagger.json
   - To view the policy API, enter: <applicationURL>/rest/policy/v1/swagger.json

Procedure for ClaimCenter

1. Start ClaimCenter.
2. In a web browser, enter the URL for Swagger UI. This loads the Swagger UI tool.
   - The format of the URL is <applicationURL>/resources/swagger-ui/
3. In the text field at the top of the Swagger UI interface, enter the URL that points to the desired API’s swagger.json file. Then, click Explore. For example:
   - To view the common API, enter: <applicationURL>/rest/common/v1/swagger.json
   - To view the claims API, enter: <applicationURL>/rest/claim/v1/swagger.json

Viewing the Base Configuration APIs

Swagger UI lists every endpoint in the API and the valid operations for each endpoint. For example:

- You can do a GET on the /activities endpoint.
- You can do a GET and a PATCH on the /activities/{activityId} endpoint.

Digital 

Engage customers and partners, deliver service excellence, and make insurance convenient.

Guidewire Digital is a portfolio of transaction applications that allow customers to expose InsuranceSuite functionality online. Guidewire Digital is included with InsuranceSuite on Guidewire Cloud, or can be licensed separately for InsuranceSuite self-managed implementations.

The Digital products are implemented as client-side Single Page applications that are driven from stateless HTTP services. These services are built on top of the InsuranceSuite configuration, exposing APIs specific to the needs of the Digital applications. The Digital Services leverage the InsuranceSuite application APIs. Therefore, subsequent core system changes to business workflow, rules, and product model are reflected in Digital applications with minimum duplication of effort. This allows the applications to be “thin” and minimizes the amount of business logic to be implemented, tested, and maintained outside the core system. The Digital applications provide flow control and presentation management while passing the processing to the core system. This makes the Digital applications easy to learn, extend, maintain, test, and deploy.

The Digital Application architecture focuses on ease of adoption of new web technologies. Developers can utilize existing skill sets to develop a customer experience that is consistent with their brand. The applications deliver an interactive and modern user experience using the latest web development techniques. Mobile applications are developed to be device agnostic through the use of cross-platform standards and frameworks. In addition, the Edge architecture has been designed to allow Digital applications to work seamlessly with the insurer’s existing web and application infrastructure (such as a content management system).