March 2007 Monthly Customer Newsletter

Proliance^® Customer Case Study: Baptist Health South Florida

Baptist Health South Florida (BHSF) is the largest non-profit health care organization in the Miami-Dade region. Its six major hospitals are complemented by the Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute as well as a variety of health care services, such as outpatient diagnostic and treatment facilities and home health care. BHSF has received numerous awards and rankings for outstanding quality of care and as an outstanding employer. Recent recognitions include the 2006 ‘Top 25 Health System Quality Award’ for outstanding quality measures from Total Benchmark Solution and Health & Hospital Networks 2006 ‘100 Most Wired Hospitals and Health Systems.’ The organization has also spent multiple years on Fortune magazine’s ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ list and Working Mother magazine’s ‘100 Best Companies for Working Mothers’ list. BHSF has achieved an outstanding reputation for medical and service excellence by blending old-fashioned ‘good doctoring’ with the finest in technological innovation.

Check out this month's Customer News to read about how Baptist Health South Florida expects to save nearly $4M a year in construction management costs by using Proliancesoftware.

Corporate News

Construction Project Management Experts to Speak at Meridian Systems User Conference
Technology demonstrations and executive interviews to be chaired by Scott Shuster, McGraw-Hill Construction/ENR consulting editor and conference facilitator

Meridian Systems announced the speaker lineup for its 2007 User Conference General Session program. Taking place April 24-26 in San Diego, Calif., the 3-day customer event will be held at the Hyatt La Jolla at Aventine . Complete conference details are available at: http://www.meridiansystems.com.

Meridian Systems announced a new Systems Integrator alliance with Runding Corporation, a Sarasota, FL-based consulting firm that specializes in the deployment of Meridian ’s Proliancesoftware solution. Read more at the above link.

Meridian Systems to Move Corporate Headquarters
Corporate move scheduled for Friday, April 13, 2007

Meridian plans to move less than a mile away this Friday, April 13, 2007. Meridian's new corporate mailing address will be 1720 Prairie City Road, Suite 120, Folsom, CA 95630. Meridian ’s email addresses, phone numbers and extensions will not change.

Additional Meridian News

Customer News

Baptist Health South Florida expects to save nearly $4M a year in construction management
costs by using Proliancesoftware

Baptist Health South Florida (BHSF) is a thriving non-profit health care system with more than 200 construction projects in progress at any given time. Management of projects ranging from a $50K floor renovation to a new hospital costing hundreds of millions of dollars consisted of paper-based processes, including Excel spreadsheets, Word documents and the manual routing of paper for approvals. Communication issues plagued this system, often causing construction delays and confusion around responsibility. This made it difficult to manage individual projects and get big picture information for executive management. Click here to download the complete case study.

Product News

Prolog^® Training
Interested in Prolog training classes? Be sure to check out the complete schedule of upcoming sessions taking place in a city near you. The following Prolog classes are being offered by the Meridian Global Partner Network:

Product Tip of the Month - Prolog

This tip assists in updating Prolog WebSite Language. Prolog WebSite uses two sets of language files. Read more at the above link.

Industry News

Good technology can be made better by having a Systems Integrator that can really work with your company through the deployment process. Meridian Systems, http://www.meridiansystems.com/, Folsom, Calif., announced a new SI alliance with Runding Corp., http://www.runding.com/, Sarasota, Fla. Read more at the above link.

Data filed away in your company is costing you money on projects. For a moment, forget everything you know about the way your company operates on a job. Forget the way you prepare a bid, assemble an estimate, track job costing, allocate labor, and share information with project managers. There could be a better way to do each and every one of these tasks. Read more at the above link.

Helping contractors extend project management data into the field, Meridian Systems, http://www.meridiansystems.com/, Folsom, Calif., announced an alliance with Vela Systems, http://www.velasystems.com/, Menlo Park, Calif., which develops mobile software solutions for tablet PCs. Read more at the above link.

Web-based project management emerges as a method of addressing core issues of collaboration and communication. As an electrical subcontractor to several major home builders, Dallas-based Lanehart Electric must be as adept at job juggling as wire pulling. At any given moment, the company has multiple balls in the air, each representing a house in various stages of design and construction that's constantly subject to last-minute changes affecting everything from design to electrical components to completion time. Read more at the above link.

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