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INFORMATICA TO HELP LEADING HMO STREAMLINE ENTERPRISE DATA INTEGRATION, IMPROVE BEST PRACTICES
Midwest health plan to advance operations using the Informatica
enterprise-class data integration platform
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 4, 2001 – Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the leading provider of eBusiness analytic solutions, today announced that Dean Health Plan, Inc., a leading HMO based in Madison, Wis., intends to improve and streamline its analytic processes using the Informatica data integration platform. Informatica will play a key role in Dean Health Plan’s efforts to integrate operational data from across the enterprise, providing employees with more timely and accurate access to information.
“In the health care industry, best practices and a comprehensive view of the enterprise and market are essential to our continued success as a health plan,” said Dana Richardson, manager of customer systems at Dean Health Plan. “We believe Informatica’s scalable and extensible data integration platform will allow us to continue improving operational performance, customer satisfaction and the health status of our members.”
Currently, Dean Health Plan integrates data from a mainframe operational system, with minimal transformation logic. Analysts who request data must write transformation logic code into their query programs to access the data they are looking for, a process that is both complex and time consuming.
“The Informatica data integration platform will allow us to take quick, accurate action to improve performance, which will help our employees do their jobs more efficiently, and produce faster results. Additionally, Informatica will enhance communication through the manageability and integration of metadata,” said Jenny Mangasarian, Dean Health Plan software engineer.
Following the implementation of Dean Health Plan’s unpaid claims data mart using the Informatica data integration platform, the company expects to extend the solution across the enterprise. This will assist in providing the company a 360-degree view of such areas as financial analysis, proactive health care management, and analysis of its membership and provider network.
“As one of the largest and most diversified HMOs in the Midwest, Dean Health Plan knows the importance analytics plays in this information-intensive economy,” said Diaz Nesamoney, president and COO of Informatica. “Our enterprise-class data integration platform will help enable Dean Health Plan to maintain its competitive edge by gaining valuable business insight which can lead to greater profitability and decreased costs.”
Dean Health Plan was created in 1983 as the managed care partner of the Dean Health System. Today, Dean Health Plan is one of the largest and most diversified HMOs in the Midwest. Its network includes nearly 1,000 physicians, more than 50 clinic sites, 24 hospitals and 200 pharmacies in its 22-county service area, plus a 24-hour Dean On Call nurse line. Dean Health Plan earned an Excellent Accreditation status from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for its commercial HMO product, the highest accreditation available for managed care plans nationwide. Dean Health Plan was ranked by Newsweek magazine as one of the Top 30 HMOs in the country. (Nov. 1999)
About Informatica
Informatica provides eBusiness analytic solutions that enable companies to leverage business insight for competitive advantage. More than 1,100 global customers, including over half of the Fortune 100, leverage the Informatica Insight Network to integrate, analyze and personalize critical business information to improve business performance and responsiveness across the entire business value chain. Informatica products include a comprehensive family of analytic applications, the industry's most powerful data integration platform and a wide range of supporting services and partnerships. The company's list of leading customers includes 3Com, AMD, American Airlines, BMW, Boeing, Borders Group, Chevron, Cisco, CNET, Deutsche Bank, eBay, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, Merck, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, Motorola, Philips Semiconductor, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sprint and UBS. For more information, call 1.800.970.1179, or visit the Informatica Web site at http://www.informatica.com/.
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