The Benefits of Ensemble for Hospitals, Banks and other Enterprises

Ensemble is an innovative integration platform that provides a dramatically faster way to transform organizations into real-time connected enterprises, rapidly linking internal and external people, processes and applications – while preserving IT investments. Plus, Ensemble enables existing applications to be easily enhanced with browser-based user interfaces, rules-based business processes, adaptable workflow that reduces custom programming requirements, and more – without rewriting.

Read the following case studies for examples of the benefits users gain from Ensemble, including:

• Faster message processing
• Reduced development time
• Meeting aggressive integration goals unattainable with other products
• Faster and more accurate business processes

Hospitals

Metropolitan Health Corporation Selects Ensemble for All-digital Hospital
Entrepreneurial vision is at the bedrock of the organizational culture at the Metropolitan Health Corporation (Metro Health) delivery network in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It’s why they’re building a new, all-digital hospital that will be the center of a health village of the future by 2007. It’s why Metro Health is viewed as an innovator in a healthcare market where annual revenues of $250M place them in the middle tier. And, it’s what paved the way for selecting Ensemble rapid integration platform as a core system for the new technology infrastructure now under development.

Partners Healthcare uses InterSystems Ensemble to integrate internal and external EMRs
Based in Boston, Massachusetts, Partners HealthCare System is the largest integrated healthcare network in the northeast United States. It includes multiple major hospitals and more than 7,000 physicians. A top priority at Partners is integrating data from community physician practice management and scheduling systems, and third-party laboratories, into its internal electronic medical record (EMR) and clinical data repository (CDR). The initiative also gives participating physicians Web-based access to the EMR and to more than three terabytes of data in the CDR. Ensemble is a key enabling technology for this initiative.

Medical Faculty Associates Uses Ensemble to Deliver Physician Portal in 30 days
Today’s medical practices are jammed with paper, and the amount of time stolen by paperwork and record keeping has affected the physician/patient relationship. Medical Faculty Associates (MFA) of George Washington University in Washington, DC, is using Ensemble in a plan to counter the paper onslaught and restore a sense of control to physicians and administrators. MFA serves more than 1,500 patients per day with 275 physicians, more than 130 residents, and 700 support staff.

Banks

Maestro Brings Cost-Effective Integration and Business Process Automation
to Credit Unions
Maestro Projects Group used Ensemble to create an integration platform – Maestro, composed of standardized components for the credit union industry – that can be easily customized to the requirements of each credit union. With Maestro, Maestro Projects Group has become a force for affordable innovation in the credit union industry.

Leveraging key Ensemble features such as rapid composite application development and rules-based business process automation, Maestro deployments come without the high cost and extended time frames associated with traditional integration projects.

Westpac Bank Integrates and Deploys Customer Service Innovation in Just 5 Months
with Ensemble
Along with Westpac Bank’s 30% annual growth rate in its custodial business have come increasing demands from customers and staff for enhanced reporting and access to information that the bank’s transactional systems can’t provide. To meet the demand, Westpac needed a way to pull data from many sources and bring it together in one place. And because customers wanted access to this information on demand through several channels, Westpac also needed to automate its access, manipulation, and delivery. The bank needed to do it all quickly to keep competitors at bay, with an efficient interface to keep customers happy, and within a limited budget to please Westpac management. Westpac looked at traditional integration and message broker solutions, but they were costly and limited primarily to sharing transactional data. Then the bank found Ensemble.

Other Enterprises

Kimberly-Clark Connects with its Supply Chain 7 Times Faster Using
Ensemble-based EDI Solution
When Kimberly-Clark Europe decided to directly manage its transportation logistics through a single service center, the company turned to OmPrompt to integrate the processes and data from its in-house logistics software system with the systems (electronic and paper-based) of more than 100 small and medium-size carriers throughout Europe. OmPrompt used Ensemble to make it happen.

Hyphen Solutions Uses Ensemble for Faster and
More Reliable Customer System Integration
In an ideal world, home construction would always proceed as planned, finishing on schedule and on budget. But the unpredictability of weather, labor, workloads, orders, communications, deliveries, and other factors wreck havoc on homebuilding schedules and costs. To better manage this variability, Hyphen Solutions created a Web-based scheduling and supply chain software service for improved schedule management and two-way collaboration between homebuilders and their suppliers. When Hyphen needed to replace existing integration software with a higher performing, more reliable, and easier to customize solution, they turned to Ensemble.