Web Hosting Services Group, TriZetto, Enhances to .NET Framework

Newport Beach, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - February 4, 2008 - Web hosting services provider, the TriZetto Group, Inc., now has a limited availability release of its QicLink Extended Enterprise 4.0 for the benefits administration market, including a technology platform change from a Unix system to the Microsoft.NET connected framework.

Rob Schleicher, Senior Director of Software Engineering for TriZetto's benefits administration group noted, ''This release is the culmination of three years of concentrated effort from TriZetto to provide our clients with technology that can support their key business processes for many years to come, while also enabling faster development, easier integration with key partner and ancillary applications, and relational database access. The general availability release is expected Q2 2008.''

This provides access to MS SQL Server relational database functionality and the rapid development and deployment tools afforded by the .NET technology platform. The new release also features new, user-friendly screen views and more intuitive methodologies for plan building and customer service. TriZetto has already completed its first successful implementation of QicLink Extended Enterprise 4.0 in a live client environment through its Naperville, Ill.,-based business process outsourcing group which supports the healthcare benefits administration market.

The implementation of the release that transitioned a 9,000 member group from Unix-based QicLink to the new .NET technology platform was smooth and completed in one day. Carol Shaler, manager, business support services for TriZetto who oversaw the conversion noted: "There was minimal impact on our end users, and that is the best possible outcome for a conversion situation. We are looking forward to working with the new tools that we can now access, such as the QicLink GUI PlanBuilder application and Web-based Customer Service."

The new release of QicLink Extended Enterprise 4.0 is a key component of TriZetto's strategy to help advance the continued success of the benefits administration market.

Joe Manheim, Senior Vice President of benefits administration for TriZetto added, ''This release offers major benefits for our clients as it enables us to more easily integrate new solutions from our growing list of TriZetto Premier Partnership Program vendor partners, while also ensuring that QicLink Extended Enterprise technology will continue to deliver highly efficient, proven performance and advanced solutions for many years to come.''

TriZetto's QicLink application is the most widely-used production-proven software engine for the self-funded benefits administration market. The comprehensive system delivers rapid return on investment by maximizing auto-adjudication rates and reducing claims processing costs. QicLink is used to manage key health claim transaction processes, including membership, provider files, plan definition, and re-insurance for more than 7.5 million members nationally.

TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management. With its technology touching nearly half of the U.S. insured population, TriZetto is uniquely positioned to drive the convergence of health benefit administration, care management and constituent engagement. The company provides premier information technology solutions that enable payers and other constituents in the healthcare supply chain to improve the coordination of benefits and care for healthcare consumers. Healthcare payers include national and regional health insurance plans, and benefits administrators that provide transaction services to self-insured employer groups. The company's payer-focused information technology offerings include enterprise and component software, hosting and business process outsourcing services, and consulting. Headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., TriZetto can be reached at 949-719-2200.

TriZetto handles nearly half of the insured U.S. population through the premier information technology solutions it provides to health plans and benefits administrators. TriZetto's healthcare payer-focused offerings include enterprise and component software, hosting and business process outsourcing services, and consulting. TriZetto will also offer Tidal's Enterprise Scheduler to its software license customers through the Tidal Reseller Partnership program. TriZetto will resell Tidal products within North America.

To learn more, please visit: www.trizetto.com.

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