To: Jenna who wrote (21992 ) 1/14/1999 9:59:00 AM From: Starduster Respond to of 120523
Nice... For those interested: MARIETTA, Ga., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthdyne Information Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: HDIE), a leading enterprise application integration software tools and services provider, and Arthur Andersen, a global, multidisciplinary professional services organization, today announced a strategic technology and business alliance. Under the terms of the agreement, Arthur Andersen will work with HIE to provide Cloverleaf and EMerge implementation and related services including project management, system integration and customized business solutions. As a Preferred Provider, Arthur Andersen's business consulting practice is actively engaged with HIE across the healthcare, banking and finance, government and manufacturing markets. The Arthur Andersen European practice is comprised of consulting and technical professionals working on a number of large integration projects. Tonny Gypen, an Arthur Andersen Partner responsible for Healthcare Consulting in Europe said, "We are impressed by HIE's message broker and are excited about the opportunity to work with such a high-quality, functionally rich product. This relationship allows us to target our existing healthcare clients with a master person indexer and provide a proven message broker solution to our customers across several industries." "This alliance leverages HIE's technology and combines it with Arthur Anderson's Global Best Practices, providing clients with innovative solutions dedicated to delivering quantifiable results - truly a win-win for all parties involved," said Robert Murrie, HIE president and CEO. "Arthur Andersen's depth of experience in healthcare, banking and finance, manufacturing and government segments add significant value to HIE's middleware messaging solutions and extends our service capabilities throughout Europe." As part of the agreement, Arthur Andersen will have two technical employees trained by HIE, and dedicate them to the Cloverleaf family of products. Arthur Andersen's service center, located in Brussels, will provide both Arthur Anderson and HIE customers a unique alternative to consulting and service. Cloverleaf provides GUI-driven application integration to legacy systems and databases. The Cloverleaf message broker resolves compatibility issues and transports, exchanges, routes and translates messages, records and transactions between disparate applications. EMerge is an enterprise master person indexing system that tracks individuals across multiple disparate systems while minimizing duplicate records. About Arthur Anderson Arthur Andersen is a global multidisciplinary professional services firm that helps its clients improve their business performance through assurance and business advisory services, business consulting, economic and financial consulting, and tax and business advisory services. Its professionals combine extensive technical competence and industry experience with innovative and progressive thought to assist clients in improving business performance. Arthur Andersen is a business unit of Andersen Worldwide, the world's largest professional services provider, with more than 123,000 personnel in 79 countries. Its global practice is conducted by member firms in 384 locations.