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August 3, 2004
ECRI Selects FullTilt Enterprise PIM to Manage Product Information Initiative
Leading nonprofit health services research agency responds to the need for centrally managing standardized,
quality product information.
WAYNE, PA - FullTilt Solutions Inc., a provider of Enterprise Product Information Management (PIM) software solutions that makes perfect product information possible, today announced that ECRI, one of the world's largest nonprofit health services research agency, has selected FullTilt's Enterprise PIM software solution to be their authoritative source of product information management.
ECRI (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute) is a nonprofit health services research agency. Its mission is to improve the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of healthcare. It is widely recognized as one of the world's leading independent organizations committed to advancing the quality of healthcare.
ECRI's focus is healthcare technology, healthcare risk and quality management, and healthcare environmental management. It provides information services and technical assistance to more than 5,000 hospitals, healthcare organizations, ministries of health, government and planning agencies, voluntary sector organizations, associations, and accrediting agencies worldwide. Its more than 30 databases, publications, information services, and technical assistance services set the standard for the healthcare community.
ECRI, recently conducted an extensive evaluation of available packaged PIM software solutions to better support their vision of consolidating and normalizing product information and selected FullTilt. The FullTilt PIM product will be used to dynamically synchronize product data internally and externally to customers.
"FullTilt will help ECRI effectively coordinate product information flows throughout our enterprise, customers, and healthcare providers." Nan Bross, VP, e-Business at ECRI stated. "FullTilt has developed what we found to be the richest functional PIM product with the most flexibility. We envision that the FullTilt PIM product and the people at FullTilt will help provide ECRI with a competitive differentiation and will become a foundational requirement for future Product Information Management initiatives."
"ECRI will eliminate redundant product data that exists in multiple systems." said Tim Wallace, CEO of FullTilt. "FullTilt is proud to be working with ECRI as they enhance their product information management and data synchronization skills as core competencies to provide increasing value to their customers."
The healthcare industry is currently faced with the enormous challenge of sharing product information through global trading networks as well as between their own internal systems. Within the enterprise, providers must produce and update content in a timely fashion, leverage existing media assets, and assure the quality of customer-facing information. Companies must also deliver accurate and current product information to multiple Internet commerce websites, exchanges, data pools/registries, trading partners and internal systems in many different exacting formats and in a variety of protocols. Amid this changing environment, FullTilt PIM stands apart as a uniquely valuable tool.
About ECRI
For more than 35 years, ECRI, a nonprofit health services research agency, has provided objective, independent guidance on patient safety, as well as healthcare risk and quality management. ECRI is a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization for patient safety, risk management, and health technology and has been designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Further information about ECRI is available at www.ecri.org.
About FullTilt Solutions
FullTilt Solutions is a leading provider of enterprise Product Information Management (PIM) software solutions for the consumer packaged goods, retail , MRO, healthcare and life sciences industries. Perfect Product Suite, the company’s flagship product, optimizes product information-related business processes across internal operations and external trading partners to enable perfect business-to-business commerce. FullTilt is a certified solutions provider for UCCnet and Transora, and has implemented PIM solutions at organizations including McCain Foods, BDI, Brady Corporation, Hagemeyer, ECRI and Premier, Inc.
FullTilt and Perfect Product Suite are trademarks of FullTilt Solutions, Inc. All other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners. |
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