ABeam Consulting and MKDF Form Strategic Business Alliance

　ABeam Consulting Ltd. (Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Takahiro Yamada, President and CEO) and MKDF, Inc. (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; Yoshitaka Minagawa, President and CEO) have entered into a strategic business alliance to enhance cloud implementation capabilities to enable P&C insurance clients to achieve more business agility.

　Today’s business environment in the P&C insurance industry continues to change in line with the recent diversification of customer demands, increasing complexity of insurance products, and the expansion of customer contact points due to acceleration of digitalization.  Insurers need to modernize their core systems to utilize digital technology and to respond quickly and flexibly to rapid changes in the market while boosting competitiveness through upgrading operations and improving customer experiences.

　The purpose of this business alliance is to further enhance the value and competitiveness of P&C insurance clients through digital transformations enabled by Guidewire Cloud, a cloud-based core platform for P&C insurance carriers . Guidewire Cloud has been implemented at numerous P&C insurance companies around the world as a reliable and scalable digital platform. 

　A Guidewire PartnerConnect Consulting partner at the Select level, MKDF has a proven record of supporting many P&C insurance clients with their Guidewire implementations. MKDF has demonstrated  its strong capabilities to enable successful, high-quality core-system modernizations.

　ABeam Consulting leverages extensive consulting capabilities and the knowledge they have cultivated over many years to provide strong support for their clients’ transformation efforts across a wide range of industries and sectors.

　In April 2024,ABeam Consulting established a team specifically focusing on one-stop digital services for the insurance industry. 

　Through this business alliance, the two companies will combine the business consulting and technical capabilities, they have built through past experiences to support P&C insurers’ core system modernization initiatives and move  to the cloud.

About ABeam Consulting Ltd.

ABeam Consulting is an integrated management consulting firm that provides global services tailored to each country and region through its worldwide network centered in Asia. The wide range of consulting services it provides include strategy, BPR, IT, organization/personnel, outsourcing and other domains of specialized expertise. Roughly 8,300 richly experienced professional ABeam consultants advise companies and other organizations in areas that include finance, manufacturing, distribution, energy, information communications, and organizations in the public sector. ABeam Consulting creates the future together with corporations and other organizations. As a creative partner leading the way reliably through change, we contribute to industrial and societal change.

Website: https://www.abeam.com/jp/en/

About MKDF, Inc.

MKDF, Inc. is a system development company established in 2019, whose members have many years of experience engaging in work on mission-critical systems. They continue to provide one-stop solutions from consulting to design, development, testing, and maintenance in the financial and public sectors, backed by all the necessary experience and qualifications. In the P&C insurance field, they were among the first to focus on Guidewire solutions and boast one of the largest cohorts of Guidewire-certified engineers in Japan, contributing to the successful implementation of numerous projects.
Website: https://www.mk-df.com/en/