Anthem Inc. Chooses CA's Unicenter TNG for Enterprise-Scale Systems Management.ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 1998--Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) announced today that Anthem Inc. has chosen CA's Unicenter TNG TNG Training TNG The Next Generation TNG Tongue TNG The Newspaper Guild (Union) TNG Transitional National Government TNG Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (national facility of the Italian astronomical community) to manage the company's information technology (IT) infrastructure. Based in Indianapolis, Anthem is one of the largest health care management companies in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , providing insurance products and services as well as administering government health care programs for millions of Americans. The company is the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. licensee for Connecticut, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. Its products and services range from traditional insurance and health care management products to integrated health networks designed to provide its customers with access to high-quality health care at the lowest possible cost. Anthem's ability to effectively serve its customers depends heavily on its IT resources, so the company moved to install a proactive and comprehensive management solution to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of its IT resources. "As we moved from a mainframe-based system to client/server systems, which are new to us, we saw the need to standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. our IT management activities to accommodate a diverse technological infrastructure," said Jane Niederberger, Anthem's acting chief information officer. "Our primary goal is to continuously improve the quality of service we provide for our customers, which means running an efficient IT operation with a minimum of down-time. We believe Unicenter TNG has the functionality and the capabilities we require." "Health care organizations operating in an increasingly competitive marketplace, need to standardize their IT management activities in order to maintain business continuity," said Yogesh Gupta, CA senior vice president of product strategy. "Companies like Anthem are demonstrating how modern IT initiatives can be successfully implemented without undue complications." Gupta also said that Anthem is exploring other Unicenter TNG facilities, such as business process views to supply a high-level view of system processes; asset management to track all hardware and software assets; security and software delivery for remote software distribution; single sign-on An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password. for ease of access to the system; storage management to simplify backup procedures; and the Real World interface for a bird's-eye view bird's-eye view Noun 1. a view seen from above 2. a general or overall impression of something bird's-eye view n → vista de pájaro of overall system operations. By automatically managing the enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. environment, Unicenter TNG optimizes the availability of business-critical services to help reduce the total cost of ownership. Enterprise assets --including the Internet/intranet and even non-IT equipment, like automated teller TELLER. An officer in a bank or other institution. He is said to take that name from tallier, or one who kept a tally, because it is his duty to keep the accounts between the bank or other institution and its customers, or to make their accounts tally. machines-- can be managed based on the business processes they support. Comprehensive and integrated out-of-the-box functionality, an intuitive Real World Interface, and self-learning, predictive neural network neural network or neural computing, computer architecture modeled upon the human brain's interconnected system of neurons. Neural networks imitate the brain's ability to sort out patterns and learn from trial and error, discerning and extracting Neugent technology make Unicenter TNG easy to deploy and use, resulting in a rapid return on investment that increases over time. Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries and had revenue of $4.7 billion in fiscal year 1998. CA can be reached by visiting www.cai.com, emailing info@cai.com, or calling 1-516-342-5224. 6 All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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