St. Croix Systems and CIBER, Inc. Sign Agreement to Deliver Capital Asset Lifecycle Management Solutions and Services for Healthcare Providers


The alliance combines St. Croix Systems' Capital Asset Lifecycle Management suite (CALM), a set of applications that enables healthcare providers to gain visibility and control over the management and maintenance, movement, and safety of all facility and equipment assets-from acquisition through retirement, and CIBER's consulting experience in developing and implementing enterprise asset management, service management, supply chain, and enterprise resource planning solutions.

Boston, Mass. July 19, 2006 -- St. Croix Systems, the leading provider of capital asset lifecycle management solutions for the healthcare industry, and CIBER, Inc. a leading international systems integrator, today announced an alliance to cooperatively help healthcare providers identify and implement strategies and solutions to increase optimization and safety of enterprise assets.

The alliance combines St. Croix Systems' Capital Asset Lifecycle Management suite (CALM), a set of applications that enables healthcare providers to gain visibility and control over the management and maintenance, movement, and safety of all facility and equipment assets-from acquisition through retirement, and CIBER's consulting experience in developing and implementing enterprise asset management, service management, supply chain, and enterprise resource planning solutions.

The two organizations are coming together at a time when healthcare providers are seeking an integrated approach to optimize hospital assets through standardized processes that enable effective preventive maintenance, improved asset tracking and utilization, integrated safety measures, and better planning and acquisition decisions. St. Croix Systems and CIBER offer clients software solutions and services to automate disparate process to increase asset and care giver productivity while reducing costs.

"Our healthcare clients want solutions that more effectively manage and maintain their capital assets to increase lifecycle and resource productivity," said Robert Dickey, Strategist, CIBER, Inc. "Working with St. Croix Systems we will deliver a solution that combines technology and process automation and allows our clients to leverage and protect the significant investments they are making in assets and equipment."

St. Croix Systems Capital Asset Lifecycle Management suite is a comprehensive suite of products built on a single platform and includes functionality to integrate and automate asset management and maintenance, service requests, resource scheduling and dispatching, mobile asset logistics and patient utilization, safety issues and hazardous alerts, and essential operational and compliance reporting.

"Enterprise asset management solutions are the catalyst for change that many healthcare providers seek to unify asset data and leverage the resulting knowledge for improved asset utilization, asset safety, and capital performance," said Sam Adams, president and CEO of St. Croix Systems. "This agreement allows both of our organizations the ability to demonstrate and deliver to our customers a solution that provides them with immediate benefits and creates an infrastructure for long-term financial and operational benefits."

About St. Croix Systems Corporation

St. Croix Systems (www.stcroixsystems.com) is the leading provider of software and services designed to integrate the core functions of asset management, asset logistics, safety management, and capital planning for healthcare providers worldwide. Since 1993, health systems have been utilizing our applications to improve asset and facility management, increase operating and financial performance, and enhance service and safety in the environment of care. Privately owned, St. Croix Systems is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

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Company Name: ST. CROIX SYSTEMS CORP.
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Website: www.stcroixsystems.com

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