Jutro Digital Platform

Here are the Niseko release highlights for Jutro Digital Platform. For more details, see the Jutro Digital Platform Release Notes.

Note: Included usage limits might apply to the products and capabilities in this release. See Guidewire Cloud Platform Specifications and Limits (located on Guidewire Community) for more information.

Jutro for non-Guidewire backends

Jutro for non-Guidewire backends enables customers to use the Jutro Digital Platform (JDP) with insurance backend systems that were not developed by Guidewire. This option allows for a unified customer experience during migrations from legacy systems to Guidewire, or for maintaining a single interface across both Guidewire and non-Guidewire backends. This capability is currently available only to customers who specifically request it. For more information, please contact Guidewire support.

New typography component

The Jutro Design System includes a new typography component. This component allows you to easily apply different typography styles to your text elements, ensuring consistent and semantically correct text rendering. By separating the visual appearance (defined by variant) from the semantic meaning (defined by tag), this feature provides flexibility while maintaining accessibility.

  • The variant property controls the visual styling of the text, such as font size, weight, line height, color. Examples include heading-1, heading-2, body-large, and label-medium.
  • The tag property overrides the underlying HTML semantic element to ensure proper document structure and accessibility. Examples include h1, h2, p, and span.

By default, each variant is associated with a specific HTML tag. However, the tag property allows you to override this default. This gives you the flexibility to adjust the visual prominence of text while maintaining a logical semantic structure. For example, you can make a heading visually subtle without changing its structural importance.

For a short demonstration of this feature, watch this video:

New properties for dropdown components

These new properties improve the usability of dropdown components:

  • The tagsAlwaysExpanded property is available for the multiple combobox and multiple select components. The default behavior is to collapse option tags when they cannot fit in a single line, and users can expand them to a multiline view by clicking on the tag that contains the aggregated options. When you set this new property to true, the tags are always expanded, so users don't have to click the tag to view its options.
  • The clearable property is available for the select, multiple select, combobox and multiple combobox components. By default, users can't clear a selected option from a dropdown list. To enable users to clear input in a dropdown with a single click on an icon button, you can set the clearable property to true. The button appears when the option is selected to allow the user to clear the selection.
    Note: This solution introduces an interactive element within the dropdown menu. It may therefore reduce accessibility.

New and enhanced content templates for Jutro Web Apps

New Workers' Compensation FROI template (for Early Access customers only)

The Workers' Compensation FROI template is a pre-built Jutro content template for First Report of Injury (FROI). This template provides a micro frontend or standalone app that insurers can use to capture workers' compensation FROI data.

Personal Auto FNOL template - vendor selection

The vendor selection feature helps capture claimant vendor selection for auto body repairs with a pre-built question flow that can be included within the initial First Notice of Loss (FNOL) or sent as a secondary request. Policyholders can select a vendor in Google Maps or add their own. This feature is supported by a Guidewire Function.

Agent Experience template updates

The following new features are available for the Agent Experience content template:

  • Agent claims enquiry: This feature allows agents to perform self-service inquiry on claims that have been submitted on policies that the agent services. It provides all the primary claim information, along with the overall status of the claim settlement process.
  • Agent reports: This feature allows insurers to embed Guidewire Explore interactive reports directly within the Agent Experience template. These reports provide up-to-date insights on their performance. (Some parts of this feature will be completed in an upcoming release.)

  • Agent commissions: This feature gives agents insight in real-time regarding how much commission is earned at an account, policy, and policy term level.

  • Renewals enhancements: This feature extends the ability to view draft and renewal transactions before their effective dates. For Commercial Auto and Workers' Compensation renewal transactions, when agents are viewing the renewal term, they can also modify the policy coverages and apply the change to the renewal term. This could potentially result in a change to the policy premium, as well requiring underwriter review. This feature does not allow the ability to change the renewal effective date.

Policyholder Experience template updates

The following new feature is available for the Policyholder Experience template:

  • Policyholder claims enquiry: This feature allows policyholders to perform self-service inquiry on claims that have been submitted on policies owned by the policyholder. It provides all the primary claim information, along with the overall status of the claim settlement process.
  • Renewals enhancements: This feature extends the ability to view draft and renewal transactions before their effective dates. For Personal Auto renewal transactions, when policyholders are viewing the renewal term, they can also modify the policy coverages and apply the change to the renewal term. This could potentially result in a change to the policy premium, as well requiring underwriter review. It does not allow the ability to change the renewal effective date.

Workers' Compensation Quote and Buy template updates

The following feature is available for the Workers' Compensation Quote and Buy template:

Workers' Compensation policy change: This feature supports the ability of agents to modify a Workers' Compensation policy mid-term, including setting the effective date for the policy change. When the policy change transaction is launched, the agent will be presented with a list of the types of supported changes, such as changing policy details, coverages, locations, jurisdictions, employee class code, payroll data, and risk analysis information. Upon completion of the changes, the agent can quote the policy and see a summary of the policy in a 'diff' that compares the before and after views of the policy changes.

Jutro Web Apps 10.11.0

Backend APIs

The Jutro Digital Platform architecture is introducing Backend APIs to enhance security and innovation. Backend APIs is a robust yet adaptable model that aligns with insurers' expectations.

This feature consists of 3 sub-features:
  • Configurable public Cloud API surface: Allows per-application control over which public Cloud APIs are exposed to the internet. To be released during Niseko in late August.
  • Custom request handlers: Allows development teams to integrate JDP apps with server-side business logic tailored for digital needs, such as custom end-user authorization rules or data transformations. To be released during Niseko in late August.
  • Cookie-based auth: This is a new solution that makes auth tokens inaccessible in the browser. To be released during Niseko in late September.
These features allow insurers to fine tune their digital apps, make them more secure, and tailored to their requirements.

CDN deployments in Development environments

The introduction of CDN Deployments in Development environments enables the use of CDN deployments with custom domains in the Development environment. This follows the existing pattern of Pre-prod and Prod promotions. It allows insurer developers to simulate Prod-like deployments during development. It increases developer flexibility in the deployment of Jutro apps, and improves the overall developer experience. Customers can now accommodate special use cases, requiring different custom domain names for the same app for different development stages (lower orbits).

Improvements to shared packages

The following improvements have been launched in response to customer feedback:
  • The UI now shows when an update is available for shared packages.
  • Publishing of shared packages from release branches is now available.
  • Jutro updates for shared packages repository are now automatic.
  • Node 22 enforcement is now in place for shared packages pipelines.

Spreadsheet upload

The Workers' Compensation Quote and Buy template now includes a user interface specifically designed to support uploading spreadsheets containing employee data. This feature streamlines the process of performing bulk uploads of employee information into the system.

There is not currently an API to link the template with the import/export feature. Therefore, you must develop the necessary wiring between the frontend hooks and the backend implementation to fully support this feature.

Digital SDK

Graceful failure during SDK generation

If there are issues retrieving the OpenAPI definitions and schemas for one or more of your InsuranceSuite instances, the generation process will no longer be interrupted. The generator will now log a warning that provides further information about the failure and will continue with the generation process. This will result in one or more SDK folders missing after generation.

Improved multi-line product support

For multi-line products, a new product argument exists in the setEditionCodeForLine function to set the edition for a specific product in a specific line of business.

Setting this property will ensure that the data that's returned by schema functions for multi-line products will be correct. (This feature is also available in the latest Mammoth patch release.)