Software Solutions Firm Blue Horseshoe Set To Launch New Grants Management System for Major U.S. Children’s Hospital

INDIANAPOLIS, June 28 /PRNewswire/ — Blue Horseshoe has implemented a new
grants management software solution for a major U.S. children’s hospital. Next
month, Blue Horseshoe plans to launch the Lawson Software Grants Management
module for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

As a pediatric healthcare system with three hospitals and 16 neighborhood
locations, Children’s receives federal grant money for research. With the use of
the module that Blue Horseshoe has implemented, Children’s will have the
capability to automatically and systematically track all grant funding and
appropriations. With more than 7,500 employees, Children’s utilizes Lawson
software for all Financial, Procurement and HR and Benefits Processing. The
hospital selected Blue Horseshoe to manage the upgrade for its Lawson Software
Suite of Applications. Work started in mid-2008 and resulted in a successful
launch in 2009.

After a year of support and more improvements to the system, Blue Horseshoe then
developed a series of interfaces between the hospital’s Lawson software and its
benefits advisors, allowing for greater efficiencies and optimizing ancillary
business processes.

“In a relatively quick time frame, with the work of our Lawson software
technicians Blue Horseshoe was able to save Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
hundreds of hours of manual labor by installing these automated solutions and
improvements in functionality,” said Peter Sprague, Blue Horseshoe’s project
manager for the project.

Children’s is now able to track the receipt and use of its inventory utilizing
hand-held devices, capabilities made possible by Blue Horseshoe’s upgrade of
Children’s software to the Lawson 9.0.1 environment release and installation of
a new Mobile Supply Chain solution for the hospital. The solution will save
time, eliminate manual entry and decrease the possibility of human error,
Sprague said.

Blue Horseshoe also developed a series of interfaces between Lawson and the
Children’s benefits providers and agencies, further saving the company hundreds
of hours of labor-intensive activities and resulting in significantly increased
productivity.

Founded in the early 1970s, Lawson provides enterprise software and service
solutions in the manufacturing, distribution, maintenance, and service
industries to more than 4,500 customers throughout the world.

Blue Horseshoe is a privately held solution services firm that has been
providing expert consulting and packaged software solutions to Fortune 500 and
mid-market businesses throughout the world since 1983. Based in North America,
Blue Horseshoe assesses business needs and applies world-class business
applications to improve profitability and increase efficiency. For more, visit
www.bhsolutions.com.

CONTACT
Duane Brodt
Coles Marketing Communications
brodt@colesmarketing.com
(317) 571-0051

SOURCE Blue Horseshoe