McKesson Information Solutions

Denver, CO

http://infosolutions.mckesson.com

Industry:

High Technology

Annual Revenue:

$50 billion (McKesson – company wide)

Employees:

24,000 (McKesson – company wide)

 

McKesson Information Solutions Improves Application Usability and Development Productivity

McKesson Information Solutions is part of McKesson Corporation, a Fortune 20 healthcare services and information technology company. It is a leading provider of software, hardware, automation, services, and consulting to hospitals, physician offices, and home health settings. McKesson solutions are designed to improve patient safety; reduce the cost and variability of care; improve healthcare efficiency; and better manage revenue streams and resources.

 

Challenges

§   Modernize and migrate the user interface for the primary application environment used by McKesson’s Horizon Clinicals development team

§   Improve usability and productivity of the application environment

§   Reduce IT management costs

§   Create a more open and flexible IT environment

 

 

Solution

§   Reinvested in Oracle, choosing Oracle ADF and the most recent version of Oracle Forms--a graphical user interface-based (GUI) forms solution--to create a user-friendly and more productive development environment

§   Worked with Ciphersoft, Inc. to rapidly convert 250 of McKesson’s legacy Oracle Forms applications to the new Web-based environment

§   Completed the migration in four months with Ciphersoft’s Exodus software, a process that would have taken more than three years to complete without the software

§   Deployed the new solution on Linux to achieve a more open and flexible IT environment that spans multiple platforms

§   Improved ease-of-use for IT users

§   Enhanced development team productivity

§   Completed the migration plan on time and within budget

Oracle Products & Services:

Oracle Database

Oracle Forms
Oracle ADF (Oracle Application Developer Framework)

 

 

Oracle Certified Partner:

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Ciphersoft, Inc.

www.ciphersoftinc.com

 

We selectedOracle ADF and used Ciphersoft’s Exodus migration software to convert 250 of our Oracle Forms applications in just four months, a process that would have taken three years without the software.” - Eddie Hurt, Senior Application Advisor, McKesson Information Solutions