Fortune 5 Corporation

A unit of a Fortune 5 company was experiencing increasing demands for its services, resulting in a straining of the supporting information systems. As a result of a series of implemented recommendations in process flow, software, and hardware elements, the system capabilities were significantly enhanced. Several functions were completely redesigned to improve end-user productivity and the interface to external clients. Other efforts created performance response time improvements of greater than 90%. These cumulative efforts helped to improve system responsiveness, user productivity, and extend the functionality of the applications.

Healthcare Insurance Provider

Working with a major healthcare insurance provider, Smyth Consulting, Inc. provided consultative services for two efforts. After working with senior management to define the requirements, goals, and objectives of the services proposed, a full project plan with schedules, resources and phased implementation dates was developed. The other effort defined and developed for executive management a "proof-of-concept" effort which examined the viability of extracting data from the mainframe and generating required and ad-hoc reporting through a client server architecture. This effort successfully demonstrated a much more efficient and less costly method for the analysis and mining of corporate data than currently utilized applications.

Healthcare Services Provider

For a healthcare services provider, Smyth Consulting, Inc. was engaged to evaluate and recommend enhancements to a recently implemented 750+ table Hospital Information System and assist management with the development of standards and strategic plans. The Assessment Report provided the Corporate Chief Executive Officer with a road map for decision making. It identified specific deficiency areas and provided recommendations for improvement of the database model, including the streamlining of data redundancy, hardware and storage utilization, and tuning of access strategies.

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