Emergency Medical Associates Simplifies Access to Trusted Information with Business Objects XI Release 2
Medical Management Company Migrates to BusinessObjects XI Release 2 and Extends the Power of Business Intelligence to More Users SAN JOSE, Calif. and PARIS - July 18, 2006 - Business Objects (Nasdaq: BOBJ; Euronext Paris ISIN code: FR0004026250 - BOB), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that Emergency Medical Associates (EMA) has migrated its business intelligence deployment to BusinessObjectsâ"¢ XI Release 2, the latest version of the industry's most advanced and complete business intelligence platform. EMA, a physician-owned, privately held medical group that manages 17 hospital emergency rooms in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan areas, has standardized on BusinessObjects XI Release 2 to take advantage of new capabilities that make it dramatically easier for physicians, hospital administrators, internal IT staff, and partners to obtain the exact reports and in-depth analysis they need, when they need it. EMA migrated to BusinessObjects XI Release 2 with assistance from Kanbay International's Adjoined Consulting LLC, a full-service management consulting and technology integration firm. EMA uses the company's Emergency Medicine Analysis and Reporting System (eMARS) to track hundreds of thousands of patient interactions per year, drawing data from multiple sources such as patient management and tracking, clinical documentation, physician work hours, physician satisfaction, and payroll. Developed in 2001 using Business Objects software, eMARS provides dashboards, scorecards, reports, interactive analytics, and ad hoc query capabilities to help users manage emergency room performance and monitor patient satisfaction. EMA also uses these dashboards to scour for unusual spikes in various medical symptoms reported in the emergency rooms, providing the first fully functional, widespread bio-surveillance system in the United States. "BusinessObjects XI Release 2 is truly groundbreaking in making it easier for our business and medical teams to work with the information they need to do their jobs," said Jonathan Rothman, director of data management at EMA. "With more of our physicians, hospital administrators, and partners having simple self-service access to reports and analytics - in a form they can easily understand - we are becoming a far more efficient organization. In addition, the visually and functionally superior performance management capabilities of the BusinessObjects XI platform will play a direct role in our ongoing efforts to improve patient care in our emergency departments." BusinessObjects XI Release 2 has improved access to eMARS in several key areas. Enhancements to BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, the Business Objects web-based query and analysis tool, has put easy-to-use report authoring and advanced drill-down capabilities into the hands of more users - from physicians to hospital administrators. This allows these users to quickly get the information they need without turning to internal EMA resources for assistance. Web Intelligence now synchronizes data from multiple sources, including OLAP and relational databases, so users can perform query and analysis on the disparate data as if it originated from a single source. Additionally, improved security has enabled EMA to share analytics with partners while ensuring protection of sensitive information. EMA has also used the improved performance management capabilities of BusinessObjects XI Release 2 to make it easier for users to perform in-depth analysis. Display improvements and new visual effects let users see more business information in their dashboards and scorecards, and sophisticated drill-down capabilities allow them to access more information in less time. With expanded predictive capabilities, EMA will be able to perform more sophisticated what-if scenarios. As a mid-sized organization with a limited IT staff, EMA worked closely with Kanbay's team to complete its upgrade to BusinessObjects XI Release 2. "Kanbay's unique onsite consulting model and its strong offshore delivery platform complemented EMA's efforts," said Kevin Reid, managing director of Kanbay's Business Intelligence practice. "With the rich user interface, enhanced capabilities, and scalable infrastructure of BusinessObjects XI Release 2, EMA will be able to extend these functionalities to the operational areas of the organization. In partnership with Kanbay, Business Objects has certainly made the migration manageable and self contained." "BusinessObjects XI Release 2 helps companies remove the hurdles to end-user adoption of business intelligence throughout their organization," said Donald MacCormick, vice president of product marketing at Business Objects. "As more users gain access to business intelligence, they are better equipped to make the critical decisions necessary to improve the performance of their organization. For EMA, the software enables the creation of dashboards to track anything their medical teams want to analyze and improve. BusinessObjects XI Release 2 allows EMA's physicians and emergency room directors to continually come up with new and innovative ways to incorporate business intelligence into their daily activities to enact positive change for the organization and for their patients."
About Kanbay International, Inc.
Founded in 1989, Kanbay International, Inc. (NASDAQ: KBAY) is a global IT services firm with more than 6,200 associates worldwide. Kanbay provides a highly integrated suite of management consulting, technology integration and development, and outsourcing solutions through a proven global delivery platform to clients focused on Financial Services and Consumer & Industrial Products, as well as an emerging presence in the Communications & Media and Life Sciences industries. Kanbay is a CMM Level 5 assessed company headquartered in greater Chicago with offices in North America and India as well as London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Melbourne. Further information about Kanbay can be found at http://www.kanbay.com.
About Business Objects
Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 35,000 customers worldwide, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500. Business Objects helps organizations of all sizes create a trusted foundation for decision making, gain better insight into their business, and optimize performance. The company's innovative business intelligence suite, BusinessObjectsâ"¢ XI, offers the BI industry's most advanced and complete solution for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects XI includes the award-winning Crystal line of reporting and data visualization software. Business Objects has also built the industry's strongest and most diverse partner community, and 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 http://www.businessobjects.com.The Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Crystal Reports, Intelligent Question, and Xcelsius are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects in the United States and/or other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
