Sun Microsystems and EDS MetaVance

There are many serious challenges facing healthcare companies today, including administrative inefficiencies, increasing costs of running their businesses, speed to market, as well as consumer concerns over healthcare coverage. To address these issues, healthcare companies are seeking scalable, member-centric administrative and finance systems that can join together vastly divergent groups of users -- plan participants, employers, providers, and brokers -- into high-performance online communities. The EDS MetaVance Administration and Finance System is a fully integrated enterprise system that allows healthcare organizations to administer benefit programs across multiple companies, lines of business, and products. MetaVance supports a wide variety of payer processes, such as claims processing, member eligibility, provider management, and advanced ad hoc reporting using an Operational Data Store. MetaVance's design features a flexible, adaptable client/server platform that enables an organization to grow and respond quickly to changes in the healthcare marketplace. MetaVance's open architecture easily integrates with mission-critical systems so companies can leverage their organizations' existing investments.

Healthcare Companies Seek New Administrative Solutions

There are many serious challenges facing healthcare companies today, including administrative inefficiencies, increasing costs of running their businesses, speed to market, as well as consumer concerns over healthcare coverage. To address these issues, healthcare companies are seeking scalable, member-centric administrative and finance systems that can join together vastly divergent groups of users - plan participants, employers, providers, and brokers - into high-performance online communities.

Consumers are demanding anytime, anywhere access to health benefits information online 24x7. Healthcare payers want to decrease their time to market and provide easier access to their new products and benefits. New supporting technologies need to be designed for healthcare e-businesses to allow intensive, integrated data processing of healthcare information in real time.

Healthcare companies need new ways to move their business processes - such as enrollment and transactions involving claims and eligibility - to the Internet. Properly implemented, these new systems can reduce administrative costs for healthcare organizations, as well as improve customer satisfaction due to speedier payment processing and guaranteed eligibility made possible through real time processing.

EDS - Reaching 124 Million People Every Day

EDS is a leading global services company, providing strategy, applications, implementation, business transformation, and operational solutions for clients managing the business and technology complexities of the digital economy. EDS brings together the world's best technologies to address critical client business imperatives. EDS serves the world's leading companies with over 40 years of healthcare industry expertise. Its healthcare services touch more than 124 million people each day in 20 countries around the world.

EDS MetaVance Addresses Managed Care Challenges

The EDS MetaVance Administration and Finance System is a fully integrated enterprise system that allows healthcare organizations to administer benefit programs across multiple companies, lines of business, and products. MetaVance supports a wide variety of payer processes, such as claims processing, member eligibility, provider management, and advanced ad hoc reporting using an Operational Data Store.

MetaVance's design features a flexible, adaptable client/server platform that enables an organization to grow and respond quickly to changes in the healthcare marketplace. MetaVance's open architecture easily integrates with mission-critical systems so companies can leverage their organizations' existing investments. EDS's expertise in systems integration allows companies to realize more rapid implementations and faster response to their organizations' unique challenges.

The MetaVance Administration and Finance System provides a highly configurable, rules-driven system. Its open architecture allows integration with existing systems and incorporates best-in-class healthcare technology partners and products. Its scalable design supports an organization's growth, and provides Web-enablement that facilitates provider and member self-directed services.

EDS and Sun - A Winning Partnership

EDS and Sun are working closely together to provide the computing services that companies need to succeed online. Several EDS data centers are powered with Sun servers to assist clients as they expand their Web presence. Companies working with EDS and Sun are assured of innovative and realistic project plans. Clients get practical and timely implementations of solutions that work, with optimal performance, scalability and flexibility, allowing Sun and EDS clients to focus on core business issues and not the uptime of their Web sites.

Sun and EDS recently signed a five-year Continuum of Services agreement designed to provide customers with a virtually seamless, best-of-breed approach to building and delivering a wide range of business solutions using complementary, on-demand IT products and services. Under the agreement, Sun and EDS are working together to deliver an array of services, including Web site management, data center outsourcing, e-business consulting, and ASP hosting services based on Sun's platform. The EDSSun program includes joint development, promotion, marketing, account planning, revenue targets, cross training, and offering development.