VIRTUSA
“ I think insurers are overcoming their fear of artificial intelligence ( AI ) and the cloud and are less worried that they will be taken somewhere they don ' t want to go .” Virtusa as a long time partner with Google , Amazon Web Service ( AWS ), SAP and others can be very confident in the security of these cloud environments . “ We ' re seeing that carriers are starting to come along and develop a cloud-first agenda with any modernisation work they ' re doing .”
Pegged to Pega From what Price says , it is clear that Pegasystems ( Pega ) has something special . The two companies are more than partners and have an organic relationship going back to 2002 . Virtusa is Pega ' s most tenured partner and the only one to partner with it in developing products for the financial EXECUTIVE BIO
GREG PRICE
TITLE : CHIEF ARCHITECT AND PRACTICE LEADER FOR INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION
LOCATION : HOUSTON
Greg Price is the practice leader and chief architect for Virtusa ’ s Digital Process Automation with nearly 30 years ’ experience providing transformation strategic consulting , enterprise and solution architecture , engineering services , and innovation with responsibilities for competency development , practice building , solutions curation , and client adoption of process enablement technologies . services , insurance , healthcare , telecom , media , and manufacturing industries .
As Pega ' s Insurance Director , Michelle Gaertner explained : “ Nearly 20 years ago , Pega joined forces with Virtusa , at that time a software engineering firm , to help the construction of product level configuration and build out some of our strategic applications . That gives Virtusa ' s product engineers a unique intimacy with the underpinning of Pega ' s architecture .”
To this day , Virtusa has engineers working inside Pega . It has executed more than 200 DPA programmes that include some of the largest Pega Implementations in the world . Iyer also is keenly appreciative of the bond between the companies . “ As a foundational partner , Virtusa is one of the few who really understand the Pega architecture .”
296 February 2022