Professional services firm Accenture has announced the acquisition of Blackcomb Consultants, a specialist technology services provider to P&C insurance carriers.
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Blackcomb is an independent partner of Guidewire, the P&C cloud platform.
Its offerings include policy administration system implementations and upgrades, production support, cloud-hosted services, performance-improvement and organizational-change services.
Blackcomb also has specialized capabilities in delivering Guidewire applications and services on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
Following the takeover, its 158 employees will join Accenture’s Industry & Function Platforms Group, where they will be focused on Guidewire project delivery.
“This acquisition strengthens our ability to help insurance carriers use technologies like artificial intelligence and analytics to improve productivity and provide hyper personalized offerings to their customers,” said John Koepke, Accenture’s Technology lead for Insurance in North America.
Jim Bramblet, who leads Accenture’s Insurance industry group in North America, added: “Blackcomb Consultants’ highly regarded Guidewire capabilities will allow us to deliver even greater agility and speed to market for our clients.”
Victor Voss, a co-founder of Blackcomb Consultants, also commented: “Amid market disruption and heightened consumer expectations, insurers are turning to platforms such as Guidewire to drive strategic digital and business transformation.”
“Accenture and Blackcomb Consultants share a vision focused on delivering innovation to P&C carriers of all sizes, and by joining Accenture, we will be able to scale and expand our solutions for insurers worldwide, helping them create a sustained competitive advantage.”
