Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City Expands Business Intelligence Deployment with BusinessObjects XI.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. & PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. -- Health Insurer Standardizes on BusinessObjects XI for Extreme Insight on Business Trends and Key Performance Indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action. Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ BOBJ Business Objects SA ) (Euronext Paris Euronext Paris is France's securities market, formerly known as the Paris Bourse, which merged with the Amsterdam and Brussels exchanges in September 2000 to form Euronext NV, which is the second largest exchange in Europe behind the London Stock Exchange. ISIN Isin (ĭs`ĭn), capital of an ancient Semitic kingdom of N Babylonia. The city became important after the third dynasty of Ur fell to the Elamites and the Amorites (c.2025 B.C.). The phase from c.2025–c.1763 B.C. code: FR0004026250 -- BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that 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. of Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). (BCBSKC BCBSKC Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City ), the largest not-for-profit health insurer in Kansas City, is expanding its current BI deployment with BusinessObjects(TM) XI, the industry's most advanced and complete business intelligence platform. BCBSKC will deploy BusinessObjects XI as its enterprise business intelligence standard. BusinessObjects XI will be used in every department in the company, including finance, sales, marketing, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , as well as medical and quality management. BusinessObjects XI will play a key role in helping the company operate more efficiently and better manage customer costs. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City serves more than 880,000 members in 32 counties in northwest Missouri and Kansas. The organization offers a variety of benefit plans and funding options to meet the needs of their customers in order to improve the health of the communities it serves. BusinessObjects XI will provide BCBSKC with extreme insight into claims information, which is the core of the company's business. With BusinessObjects XI, BCBSKC is able to examine claims over time and monitor trends to help its members better manage their health. In addition, BusinessObjects XI users are able to track, understand, and manage detailed patient information in order to help better manage costs. For example, BCBSKC is able to determine whether customers with diabetes are seeing their doctors on a regular basis. Or they can look at a subset of heart patients to ensure that those people with a history of heart disease are filling prescriptions for their blood pressure medication. Future plans include the creation of an executive dashboard powered by BusinessObjects XI so top managers at BCBSKC can have up-to-the-minute reports that monitor the latest business trends, key performance indicators, and enable extreme insight into the organization's success. "The key to making our business intelligence deployment a success is putting the right tools at the right levels," said Erik Brokaw, systems architect at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City. "We want to empower our users to do their own work, while giving our top executives big-button dashboards in order to get the latest information quickly. Gone are the days when an information services department The Information Services Department (ISD) (Traditional Chinese: 政府新聞處; Simplified Chinese: 政府新闻处 acts as a central repository for reports. When that happens, requests end up backlogged and critical information never makes it to the end user. BusinessObjects XI ensures that information gets to the people who need it and who can make a difference in our day-to-day business." "The challenge many healthcare organizations face is providing higher quality customer care while keeping costs to a minimum," said Rene Bonvanie, chief marketing officer at Business Objects. "Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is using BusinessObjects XI as a vital weapon to understand, manage, and optimize their operations. And by choosing BusinessObjects XI as the enterprise standard, BCBSKC reduces the number of BI tools in the organization, ultimately achieving greater cost savings and efficiency." About Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, the largest not-for-profit health insurer in Missouri and the only not-for-profit health insurer in Kansas City, has been part of the Kansas City community since 1938. BCBSKC provides health coverage to more than 880,000 residents in the greater Kansas City area and Northwest Missouri. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
About Business Objects Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. With more than 30,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500, Business Objects helps organizations gain better insight into their business, improve decision making, and optimize enterprise performance. The company's business intelligence platform, BusinessObjects(TM) XI, offers the BI industry's most complete and trusted platform for reporting, query and analysis, performance management, and data integration. BusinessObjects XI includes Crystal Reports(R), the industry standard for enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. . Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, with more than 3,000 partners worldwide. In addition, the company offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects. Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, Calif., and Paris, France. The company's stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ) and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 -- BOB) stock exchanges. More information about Business Objects can be found at www.businessobjects.com. Business Objects and the Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, WebIntelligence, Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Analysis, RapidMarts, and BusinessQuery are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects S.A. or its affiliated companies Affiliated Companies A situation that occurs when one company owns a minority interest (less than 50%) in another company. Also refers to companies that are related to each other in some way. Notes: An affiliated company is sometimes referred to as a subsidiary. in the United States and/or other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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