IBM Partners with Achieve Healthcare Technologies to Enhance Elderly Care Software

Strategic Insights -

Achieve Healthcare Technologies, a leading provider of clinical and financial software systems to the eldercare industry, has partnered with IBM to manage hosted applications, ensuring continuous access to business-critical applications for its clients. The move aims to improve reliability, flexibility, and system access for Achieve's nearly 3,000 eldercare facility customers. With this partnership, Achieve can focus on software development and deployment, entrusting IBM with the responsibility of managing different environments, application monitoring, and storage. The IBM services agreement will enable Achieve to host its applications on IBM System x servers, providing increased security, data protection, availability, and performance.

Key Takeaways:

  • Achieve Healthcare Technologies has partnered with IBM to manage hosted applications, focusing on software development and deployment.
  • The partnership will enable Achieve to focus on its core competency, allowing IBM to manage hosting, application monitoring, and storage.
  • Achieve's applications will be hosted on IBM System x servers, ensuring increased security, data protection, availability, and performance.
  • The arrangement provides a flexible, scalable, and reliable hosting environment for both production and test environments.
  • The partnership enables Achieve to easily grow its IT infrastructure on an as-needed basis, without concerning itself with hardware and storage costs.
  • Achieve has approximately 2,800 long-term care facilities nationwide as clients, who will benefit from the improved reliability and accessibility of business-critical applications.
  • The partnership also includes a phased approach to implementing Achieve's environment and data center consolidation on its four data centers.

Statistics:

  • Achieve Healthcare Technologies has nearly 3,000 eldercare facility customers nationwide.
  • The company has a staff of less than 200 people, focusing on software development and deployment.
  • The partnership will enable Achieve to easily grow its IT infrastructure on an as-needed basis, without concerning itself with estimated hardware and storage costs.

Sources:

  • IBM Press Release regarding partnership with Achieve Healthcare Technologies
  • Achieve Healthcare Technologies' official website (www.achievehealthcare.com)
  • IBM's official website (www.ibm.com)