The Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Server ES7000 systems at Medscheme, South Africa`s largest health fund manager are in production and delivering phenomenal performance and price advantages compared to the systems they replaced, Unisys said today.
Medscheme is using its 32-processor ES7000 to speed the processing of over 6 million health claim transactions a month submitted by over 2 million member beneficiaries, resulting in faster claims payment. The new system delivers five times the online transaction performance of the 24-processor RISC-based system previously used to support the claims processing solution.
At one-third the price of a RISC-based upgrade to the system it replaces, the Unisys ES7000 enables Medscheme to accommodate forecasted growth in new customers and managed healthcare administration cost-effectively, while maintaining high levels of customer service. The ES7000 at Medscheme runs Caldera`s UnixWare Data Center Edition operating system.
The industry-standard Intel technology on which the Unisys ES7000 is based helps Medscheme take advantage of enterprise-class scalability and reliability without being locked into proprietary technology from a single vendor.
Medscheme has also purchased a 16-processor Unisys ES7000 for disaster recovery, solutions development and quality assurance.
Based on the revolutionary Unisys Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) architecture, the ES7000 provides an array of capabilities required for enterprise-class e-business computing and well known to users of large-scale computers, but unprecedented in environments using Microsoft and Intel technology. A de facto standard architecture in the market for large-scale Intel-based servers, CMP technology has become the lead platform for enterprise Intel based computing.
"Unisys was able to demonstrate superior system performance with its Intel-based architecture compared to our previous RISC-based server," said Medscheme`s Group IT director, Hankie Vogel. "This consideration, coupled with a considerably lower cost of purchase, support and growth, had a significant impact on our final decision to implement Unisys ES7000 technology."
Designed for the power of future Intel IA-64 Itanium processors, the ES7000 today accommodates up to 32 Intel Pentium III Xeon processors, which can be field-upgraded to IA-64 Itanium when that technology becomes available or combined with Itanium processors in the same server. These advantages enable the ES7000 to match the performance of proprietary systems in enterprise-class e-business and other critical applications at a fraction of the price.
"Nothing is as effective in measuring server performance and cost effectiveness than actual customer experience in executing day-to-day operations," said Barry Holt, Managing Director of Unisys Africa. "This signals to enterprise users that the Unisys ES7000 can compete on a performance basis with mainframes and high-end RISC UNIX platforms, while using industry-standard technology that gives customers maximum flexibility in solutions deployment."
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