excelleRx Moves to Unisys Server Platform

Unisys Corporation has announced that excelleRx, a provider of medication management for the chronically-ill elderly, has chosen two ES7000 servers to manage its patient healthcare activities, including medication consultation results, medication status, prescriptions and drug delivery. "They had heard of our scalability and the robustness of our platform," Mark Feverston, director of enterprise servers at Unisys, told 5 Minute Briefing during a private interview. "They liked the fact that the ES7000 had a mainframe background."
      In response to a dramatic boom in business and mounting demands to provide reliable pharmacy and management services to the hospice industry, excelleRx re-evaluated its IT platform, making a strategic decision to replace its existing platform in search of more security, support and scalability. "They were looking for the security of knowing that this is not just another commodity-based platform," Feverston explained. excelleRx had been running an IBM 8-way X440 on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. "The previous platforms were, evidently, causing them to make excuses," he said. By moving their mission-critical application to a Unisys platform, Feverston noted, excelleRx acquired a no-compromise, mainframe-like environment that their customers could depend upon.
      The Unisys ES7000 servers and EMC SAN infrastructure will run excelleRx's proprietary SQL Server-based data warehouse application, called Xeris, which is built entirely on Microsoft technology. "It's not difficult to move up from a commodity-based platform to an enterprise platform and enjoy the benefits of the robust architecture," Feverston said. "And, clients are doing just this," he added.
      In related news, Unisys has announced that the agenda of this year's UNITE conference, entitled "Golden Opportunities," will be more focused on client successes and client experience. "We're going to concentrate more on best practices to make sure that those that attend UNITE come away with things of value to them," Feverston explained. "We're expecting a great turn out." For more information, visit www.unisys.com or www.unite.org.