Noted for its technological superiority in the healthcare field, UPMC leads again with a its comprehensive Enterprise Transformation Project to re-engineer its overburdened IT infrastructure to an on-demand virtualized environment. With the assistance of principals from Innovative Health Strategies, UPMC established a landmark relationship with IBM that will yield capital savings in excess of $100 million over an 8-year period and substantial reduction of annual operating expense conservatively estimated at 15-20%. This ground-breaking strategy provides additional benefits to UPMC including:

* Continuous state-of-the-art technology upgrades at no additional spend
* On-demand computing
* Enterprise-wide re-engineering to expand capacity
* Collaborative development of new products and systems
* Increased revenue