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(COMTEX) B: HIE AND ARTHUR ANDERSEN FORM BUSINESS ALLIANCE TO DELIVER
B: HIE AND ARTHUR ANDERSEN FORM BUSINESS ALLIANCE TO DELIVER
Middleware Messaging Solutions
- Arthur Andersen Becomes an HIE Preferred Provider and Opens a
European
Service Center for Cloverleaf(R) and EMerge(TM) -
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.
About HIE
HIE helps enterprises rapidly integrate their existing and new
applications, using the Company's market leading software tools and
strategic and tactical integration services. The Company's tools are
used in more than 1,200 sites worldwide, including those in the
healthcare, financial services and banking industries. HIE is
headquartered in Marietta, Georgia, with offices in Dallas, Columbus,
New York, London, England and Essen, Germany. For more information
visit HIE's web site at hie.com.
This press release includes forward-looking statements in addition to
historical information. The words "expect," "anticipate," "intend,"
"plan," "believe," "seek," "estimate" and similar expressions are
intended to identify such forward-looking statements; however, this
press release also contains other forward-looking statements in
addition to historical information. The Company cautions that there
are various important factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements;
accordingly, there can be no assurance that such indicated results will
be realized. Among the important factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from those indicated by such
forward-looking statements are competitive pressures, the mix of
software and service revenue, the mix of direct and indirect sales,
sales timing, changes in pricing policies, undetected errors or bugs in
the software, delays in the product development, lower-than-expected
demand for the Company's software tools or services, business
conditions in the healthcare and other complementary markets, the
Company's ability to modify its software for use in non-healthcare
industries, risks associated with possible acquisitions, general
economic conditions and the risk factors detailed from time to time in
the Company's periodic reports and registration statements filed with
Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1997 and its
Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-55703). By
making these forward-looking statements, the Company does not undertake
to update them in any manner except as may be required by the Company's
disclosure obligations in filings it makes with the Securities and
Exchange Commission under the Federal securities laws.
"HIE" "Cloverleaf" and "EMerge" are registered trademarks of
Healthdyne Information Enterprises, Inc.
SOURCE Healthdyne Information Enterprises, Inc.
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McCoun, Lauren Felice, or Press - Michael McMullan of Morgen-Walke
Associates, Inc., 212-850-5600, or morgen-walke.com
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hie.com (HDIE)
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