The challenges of SAP BusinessObjects Administration within Tuscon Medical Center. Migration SAP BusinessObjects assets from ICD-9 to ICD-10

1. Optimized migration from ICD-9 to ICD-10 for SAP BusinessObjects
at Tuscon Medical Center
Tucson Medical Center has been Tucson’s locally governed nonprofit regional hospital for more than 65
years. TMC is Southern Arizona’s leading provider for emergency care and pediatric care, with top-notch
intensive care units for adults, children and newborns.
The issues encountered by the SAP BusinessObjects team
Dan Dellacona, the senior application system developer had been hired as the first BOE administrator.
He explains “We are using Epic as our primary health care software. Epic resells SAP BusinessObjects as part
of their reporting solution. Before I joined, BO administration was a shared responsibility, but the developers
couldn’t keep spending the time on administration. Every time we need to apply an Epic patch, which includes
schema changes, the question is: what’s the impact in SAP BusinessObjects of the Epic patch? We needed to
be proactive and no longer reactive. Something had to change and we had to make it more manageable. We
needed something clean, organized, simplified making it easier to monitor and upgrade our Business Objects
platforms.”
Dan Dellacona keeps explaining “One of our major concerns was to migrate our SAP BusinessObjects assets
from ICD-9 to ICD-10. We needed a simplified and reliable impact analysis process to help us transition to
ICD10 by defining ICD9 codes as selection criteria. The aim was to identify Crystal reports and webis using
those codes.”
More generally Dan needs were: “My users are using SAP BusinessObjects to determine the health of our
patients, the health of our business and the health of our processes. I need the same for my Business Objects
systems. I need some transparency. I need BI for SAP BusinessObjects. I need also to clean up my system by
identifying unused content and dormant users. And before performing any such cleanup I have to ensure that I
have easy to use backup and version control so that if I delete something I can get it back easily. All of that with
minimum complexity is how 360suite came through for us.”
The benefits of the 360suite solutions
GB & SMITH is a software company that streamlines and extends SAP BusinessObjects software. It
develops and markets powerful and intuitive solutions.
Dan Dellacona explains “by choosing the 360suite, we have the suitable SAP BusinessObjects metadata
extraction and analysis solution. It has help us to achieve our icd9 to icd10 conversion project around SAP
BusinessObjects. Whenever we have a need we just look what the products can offer: for example we just
complete a comparison projects to align our development and production system.”
The 360suite range combines 4 solutions: 360view (security), 360plus (backup and promotion), 360cast
(dynamic bursting) and 360eyes (audit and impact analysis).
By purchasing the 360suite range, Tuscon Medical Center will gain daily time for performing routine SAP
BusinessObjects administration tasks. “360suite has becoming a must have product at TMC. I want to go deeper
in the products in the future and thus maximize our return on investment and spread more insights from our BO
platforms to developers, key users and auditors.”