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Delegata Receives National Recognition with the ‘Best Fit Integrator Award’ at the State and Local Government Industry Summit

Sacramento, CA - September 14, 2007

Delegata, a premier consulting and systems integration firm, announced today that they received the Best Fit Integrator Award at the Inaugural State & Local Government Industry Summit held in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

The Center for Digital Government established the Best Fit Integrator Awards program for state and local governments across the United States to recognize their private sector partners. Cathilea Robinett, Executive Director of the Center, offered, “America’s technology integrators work hard every day for governments to innovate solutions that make government more efficient and useful for citizens from coast to coast.  We’re very pleased to have an opportunity to help government acknowledge them for a job well done.”  

All U.S. state and local government organizations’ officials, executives and staff were invited to submit nominations.  Two of Delegata’s California State partners; the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the State Controller’s Office (SCO), submitted nominations on their behalf.  Robinett added, "Delegata has made a significant impact on California State Agencies and was nominated for the Best Fit Integrator Award by two of their clients.  Delegata's solution-focused transformation approach has helped reshape key initiatives for the largest IT spending state in the nation and has provided opportunities for reusability across the country."

Delegata received the Best Fit Integrator award for ‘Applied Creativity and Reinvention in Institutional Transformation’.  The nominations for Delegata were submitted by DOJ for the Prescription Monitoring Programs Information Exchange (PMIX) and SCO for the Agile Payment System (APS).

“This is a very special award - to be chosen as Best Fit Integrator by a panel of national experts brought together by the Center for Digital Government.  And more than the national recognition, the fact that our clients are the ones who nominated us for this award, makes it especially prestigious.  There is no better reward than to know that our clients are pleased with our work and that our solutions have provided significant benefits to them,” stated Delegata CEO and President, Kais Menoufy. 

DOJ Chief, Departmental Services Bureau, Sheri Hofer stated, “Delegata provided the technical expertise and project management skills required to develop the national pilot of the PMIX standard between the California DOJ and Nevada Board of Pharmacy while overcoming a number of obstacles both technical and organizational to deliver this pilot in such a short time frame.  The successful implementation of the service between California and Nevada will provide the case for a nationwide implementation of the state-to-state technology service.” 

In regards to the Agile Payment System, Dave Dawson, SCO Chief Information Officer, added, “Given the complexity of the problem we were solving, the solution architecture needed to be custom and unique to address the technical and business aspects of the payment system.  SCO staff and Delegata used Delegata’s proprietary Organizational Change Management (OCM) and Business Process Reengineering (BPR) methods and tools from their best practices-based Diamond Methodology to ensure the new processes and system were quickly and effectively adopted by all of SCO's stakeholders. We are very proud of this achievement.” 

Summaries of both submittals are below, for full submittals, visit: http://www.delegata.com/news_events/events_2007_09_09.shtml

DOJ PMIX

All states have laws and regulations that govern the distribution and handling of controlled substances and other pharmaceuticals as well as the provision of medical and pharmaceutical care.  Diversion of controlled substances is generally recognized as a serious problem throughout the U.S.  States have found that prescription monitoring programs (PMPs) are among the most effective tools available to identify and prevent drug diversion at the prescriber, dispenser, and patient levels.  Prescription monitoring programs collect prescription data from pharmacies.  Data is reviewed and analyzed for educational, public health, and investigative purposes.

On behalf of DOJ’s Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement (BNE), Delegata worked with the IJIS Institute (IJIS) to manage and develop a web-based service for the pilot implementation of the PMIX standard between the Prescription Monitoring Programs (PMPs) for the California DOJ and the Nevada Board of Pharmacy.  With the successful implementation of the service between California and Nevada, IJIS plans to sponsor the nationwide implementation of the state-to-state technology service.  This new automated service will help streamline the exchange of controlled substance information between public health, law enforcement, and regulatory agencies across the U.S.

SCO APS

SCO administers apportionment programs that process, allocate, and distribute billions of dollars in payments to local governments, agencies, and special district entities. On a yearly basis, SCO processes over 30,000 payments resulting in the distribution of over $40 billion to these entities. SCO selected Delegata as the system integrator to help manage, design, develop and implement the Agile Payment System (APS), a custom web-based application with corresponding business processes and technical infrastructure. The APS is a “business tool” which is a unique kind of application that enables financial analysts to introduce new business rules and functions without building or modifying technical code. APS treats business rules and functions as data. Therefore, the formulas for calculations, the factors that go into those calculations, and the terms of the payment periods all become data, and represent a model of the apportionment programs. It is an “interpretive” system; that acts on the data as intended - it interprets apportionment program models.

APS is a highly configurable, flexible, dynamically responsive service asset for California state and local agencies that benefit from the apportionment claims and payments processed by the SCO. Apportionment payees can now receive consolidated payments and remittance advices, information that was previously delayed is now immediately available, workflow is streamlined, data integrity is improved through automated data capture, security is enhanced through a role-based access model, automated contact management functionality is provided, accountability is enhanced through comprehensive audit capabilities, claim origination is almost completely automated, retroactively re-computes all of the impacted past payments and makes corresponding adjustments to future payments and information access is improved through robust reporting capabilities.

For more information regarding Industry Summit award winners: http://www.centerdigitalgov.com/story.php?id=105878

About Delegata

Transformation is the journey of change. From vision to reality, Delegata partners with leading agencies to achieve their next level of dynamic progress. Whether it’s people, process or technology, Delegata is a leader in organizational transformation. Specializing in Project Management, Technology Planning and Analysis, Application Development, Enterprise Architecture, PMO, Organizational Change Management, Systems Integration, and Process Alignment, Delegata delivers award winning strategic solutions to its clients. Utilizing strong industry acumen and its configurable Diamond Methodology, Delegata begins with client business objectives, aligns technology components, and delivers tightly integrated solutions tailored to its clients’ unique environments.

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