Guidewire business rules, Guidewire Gosu rules

Guidewire provides two different types of rules in the base PolicyCenter configuration.

PolicyCenter business rules

You use business rules to create, edit, and manage underwriting issues. You work with business rules in the Business Rules screens, in PolicyCenter Administration > Business Settings.

The target users of business rules are PolicyCenter administrators and business analysts. It is possible to create and deploy PolicyCenter business rules without restarting the application server.

You use business rules for defining underwriting issue types. In the underwriting rules you can:

• Test for the existence of an underwriting issue on a policy
• Define the course of action to take for an underwriting issue
• Define whether to block the progress of a policy transaction until the underwriting issue receives approval.

Gosu rules

You create and manage Gosu rules entirely in Guidewire Studio. Gosu rules require in-depth domain knowledge and technical expertise to create. After you make changes to Gosu rules, you typically need to restart the application server.