Axis Group and Kalido provide managed BI solution that boosts performance, lowers costs for Consortium Health Plans
Burlington, MA – July 8, 2009
- Consortium Health Plans (the Consortium) is a national coalition of 39 regional and independently operated Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) Plans located across the United States. The Consortium provides national sales support to its members. This includes market intelligence and sales data that enable these regional health insurers to effectively collaborate and compete for national accounts.
- The Consortium’s legacy business intelligence (BI) platform was largely hand-coded and run on a data warehouse that had hit a performance ceiling. The system was difficult and expensive to maintain, and it could not adequately scale or adapt to new user requirements. The Consortium needed a BI solution that allowed members to quickly tailor sales efforts to changing market conditions while doing so at a lower cost.
- Axis Group rapidly delivered a complete enterprise business intelligence solution that met the Consortium’s business and budget requirements. Using the Kalido® Information Engine™ to automate many aspects of design and development, Axis Group re-architected Consortium’s prior data warehouse into a new and more scalable data warehouse – a core component of any BI solution – in 30 days. The Consortium’s Information Data Store 2.0 (IDS 2.0) went into production in November 2008. It manages data from five discrete external source system applications and is accessed by more than 100 users daily.
- The Consortium wanted to avoid costly up-front licensing fees. In response, Kalido and Axis Group developed a subscription-based offering which enables the Consortium to “pay as they go,” as IDS 2.0 delivers value to the organization and its members. In addition, migration to a new reporting tool cut maintenance and license costs by more than 50 percent.
- With several components of system management and maintenance outsourced to Axis Group, the Consortium is supported by experienced BI and data warehousing practitioners while avoiding the overhead costs of additional in-house staff.
- The pricing and service model developed by Kalido and Axis Group saves the Consortium hundreds of thousands of dollars in up-front license, maintenance and consulting fees. The Consortium forecasts a 100 percent return-on-investment within 24 months after going into production, far more quickly and with less risk than would otherwise be possible.
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Dr. Carter Coberley, vice president of Business Intelligence and CIO, Consortium Health Plans said:
- “By providing consistently reliable access to accurate, timely and complete information, IDS 2.0 has succeeded in helping Consortium members react quickly and decisively to market demands, with a strong competitive advantage. Member satisfaction levels have been high while associated IT costs have been greatly reduced. Axis Group and Kalido are valuable, strategic partners.”
Ranjan Sinha, principal, Axis Group said:
- “Working closely with Dr. Coberley and Kalido, our technology partner, Axis Group created an inherently flexible information management system that immediately scales to meet the needs of the Consortium and its 39 BCBS members. Our Business Intelligence Lifecycle Delivery Model (BuILD) methodology ensured that IDS 2.0 is agile. The Kalido Information Engine enables the Consortium to easily adapt data models to reflect changing business conditions while automatically synchronizing with the data warehouse.”
Bill Hewitt, president and CEO of Kalido, said:
- “The Consortium’s success demonstrates that Kalido’s information management platform enables enterprise BI for midmarket companies quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively. This was Kalido’s vision when we made the Kalido Information Engine available on a subscription basis in Q3 2008. In conjunction with Axis Group and other SI partners, we offer mid-sized organizations a superior alternative to time-consuming and costly hand-coding and traditional ETL-based data warehouse development.”
About Axis Group
Since 1996, Axis Group has been finding ways to help customers improve their business through better information. By delivering Project Portfolio Management, Business Intelligence and Information Management solutions to Global 1000 firms as well as mid-market organizations, Axis has helped its customers achieve their vision. For more information on Axis Group, visit www.axisgroup.com.
About Kalido
Kalido delivers industry leading solutions for turning bad data into meaningful business information. Developed through years of successful best practice implementations, Kalido’s robust, business-model driven information management engine governs data across the enterprise and automatically feeds information to industry standard BI platforms. Kalido® software is implemented at over 250 locations in more than 100 countries with market leading companies. More information about Kalido can be found at: http://www.kalido.com.
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