CDC Team Enables Worldwide Collaboration - Will Integrate with Alerting Service's SOA
ATLANTA, Ga.- Sep. 26, 2006 - CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR) has successfully built, implemented, and integrated a Web-based portal solution called "CDC Team" as part of the final phase of a $4 million IT contract for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This solution enables geographically dispersed CDC team members to work closely, quickly, and efficiently with state and local health departments and other external partners to coordinate the dissemination of information about local, state, regional, national and worldwide public health issues as they arise, during both routine operations and in emergency situations.
For the project, CIBER provided a wide range of services to the CDC, including architectural consulting, enterprise resource planning (ERP) system integration, vendor management, standards development, product customization, business process re-engineering, custom enterprise services, curriculum development, and training.
Working with partner Madison Research Corporation, CIBER selected, customized, implemented, and integrated the CDC Team solution, which facilitates collaboration of personnel among multiple locations and organizations.
"We at CDC are very happy to complete the implementation of our web collaboration platform, called 'CDC Team,'" said Robb Chapman, Enterprise Communication Technology Platform (ECTP) project manager for CDC. "Interest in this platform is very high at all levels of the agency and new user registration is proceeding at a brisk pace, which confirms that the tool fits the need. This has been a complex project and the CIBER team has done an exceptional job seeing it through."
CDC Team is one of two major initiatives that CIBER is spearheading for CDC. CDC has executed an additional task order for CIBER to develop an application called "CDC Alerting Service," which will work with the CDC Team solution to facilitate the dissemination of public health alerts. CDC tapped CIBER's considerable expertise in service-oriented architecture to develop the CDC Alerting Service. It is one of CDC's first forays into service-oriented architecture.
The final phase of the three-phase project officially wraps up in 2007, after the completion of CDC Alerting Service, and the training, support, and migration of users from the previous tools.
As a result of the implementation of these two solutions, CDC expects to significantly reduce travel expenses and Web conferencing costs, improve personnel response times, and increase its flexibility and effectiveness in managing operational activities.
The two solutions touch almost all aspects of CDC activity, ranging from providing for daily actions to battle chronic diseases to supporting emergency public health operations in the event of a natural disaster or terror event.
"The CDC, like other large federal agencies, has many departments with separate budgets, using disparate technologies," said Wally Birdseye, President of CIBER's Federal Government Solutions Division. "By tapping into CIBER's significant service-oriented architecture and government expertise, CDC has built world-class tools to the flexibility and efficiency its staff needs to achieve CDC's important mission. We are pleased to continue to serve as their IT partner, as we have for nearly 20 years."
CDC is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, and counts among its achievements the complete elimination of polio, malaria and rubella in the United States, and the worldwide eradication of smallpox.
About CIBER, Inc.
CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR) is a pure-play international system integration consultancy with superior value-priced services for both private and government sector clients. CIBER's global delivery services are offered on a project or strategic staffing basis, in both custom and enterprise resource planning (ERP) package environments, and across all technology platforms, operating systems and infrastructures. Founded in 1974 and headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colo., the company now serves client businesses from over 60 U.S. offices, 20 European offices and four offices in Asia. Operating in 18 countries, with 8,000 employees and annual revenue of nearly $1 billion, CIBER and its IT specialists continuously build and upgrade clients' systems to "competitive advantage status." CIBER is included in the Russell 2000 Index and the S&P Small Cap 600 Index. CIBER, ALWAYS ABLE. www.ciber.com
