The financial industry is continuously coping with changing rates and maintaining customer loyalty. The competition is fierce and constantly growing. These challenges, faced with increasing compliance regulations, create tough business architecture for banking and finance. The most important aspect of competing in the market is having the appropriate data at your fingertips at all times.

Regardless of what systems your company relies on, your industry demands that your employees have the knowledge and tools to assist the customer, without requiring extensive training for application use. eThority delivers the data from the complex applications to users of all levels, with the highest level of security.

Modern day healthcare facilities house a myriad of information systems to track all aspects of delivering patient care. And, for academic healthcare institutions, or those conducting research, the number of systems grows. Increasingly, there is a need to consolidate this information to provide “the big picture”. In many cases, no one system contains all of the information to provide this overview.

eThority’s unmatched ability to consolidate data from multiple disparate information systems delivers the ability to quickly and easily ascertain a single view of united data. And because eThority’s eTelligent adapters automate the consolidation for you, this information can be used as part of a daily management process. Stop spending countless days and hours pooling data, let eThority increase the speed of your workday.

eThority’s flexible tools allow your in-house decision support teams to tease critical answers from the vast detail of patient billing information. Managing payer-mix, cost per procedure, patient demographics and other critical metrics becomes greatly simplified through the use of a tool like eThority.

For researchers, eThority can provide quick and easy analysis of their trial data and overall institutional research performance can be monitored and managed through eThority’s specialized research applications.

With dwindling support from government sources and increased reliance on alternate funding, higher education management is pressed to do more with less. Part of managing these large enterprises is knowing your costs. This is where eThority can deliver answers better and faster than any solution on the market. Our toolset is designed to be operated by the decision makers. This eliminates the bottlenecks of report requests to over taxed IT departments and staff analysts.

As many institutions of higher education expand, they integrate other institutions, foundations and agencies. In many cases, each of these has their own financial systems and you are left to do the grinding task of consolidation between the entities. Enter eThority, our eTelligent adapters allow for quick connection and fast consolidation among multiple disparate entities. Now you can run reports weekly between the organizations as opposed to semi-annually.

With eThority you can finally “Run any report, any time!”

In addition to the standard robust reporting, consolidation and analysis toolset, eThority delivers several specialty modules targeted for higher education including: Grant Management.

Grant Module delivers a tool that assists the user through the entire life cycle of the grant process. From pre-award, to grant closeout, eThority’s grant management engine simplifies the process and delivers the required forms, reports and answers required.Clinical Trials – Powerful, flexible and easy, eThority

Clinical Trials has proven itself the solution for medical schools by bringing clarity to these detail rich endeavors. Through tight integration with eThority’s financial management engine, Clinical Trials allows users to manage trial demographics, trial budgeting, funds control, IRB tracking, protocol management, fee source management, subject management and receivables with ease.

Long Term Commitment Management – The collaborative nature of higher education requires the sharing of funds on many large scale projects. In addition, recruitment of key staff and faculty members requires incentive packages that span years. The LTC module in eThority allows you to manage your multi-year commitments in a concise and integrated manner. LTC allows you to assign these commitments to potential sources and track the fulfillment over time. And, of course, the LTC is integrated into the complete financial engine of eThority so the commitments you make can be considered when looking at the ‘big picture’.

The demands on a government agency are very different than those of their privatized counterparts. From stewardship of funds to budgetary control, tighter measures of execution and performance are required. Reporting and control mechanisms continually evolve and delivering effective reporting and analysis can be the difference between a division in harmony or chaos.

Users at all levels of management within agencies look to the same data sources for different needs. eThority delivers an adaptable solution that allows all users to access a flexible data set in a secure and friendly manner.

eThority contains specialized functionality to address common issues faced by agencies like:

Encumbrance and Commitment management – eThority has the capability to track encumbrances and commitments. In addition to the intra-year obligations that are made, eThority has the ability to track multi-year obligations from multiple funding sources.

Multi-Source – eThority’s interface engine allows it to easily connect to, and consolidate with, an unlimited number of disparate financial systems. This allows you to spend your time analyzing the combined data instead of crunching away gathering the data.

Grant Management – eThority’s Grant Module delivers a tool that assists the user through the entire life cycle of the grant process. From pre-award, to grant closeout, eThority’s grant management engine simplifies the process and delivers the required forms, reports and answers required.

In today’s competitive marketplace, manufacturers need constant vigilance on metrics related to productivity, efficiency, inventory, and cost. Without quick access to these numbers, the edge your organization holds in the marketplace can quickly evaporate.

eThority’s ability to quickly integrate into your existing systems, both financial and manufacturing, allows your enterprise to gain the immediate benefits of real time analysis. Data structures can be assembled to reflect your most important data requirements and delivered to the desktops of the people who can make the changes that count.

And because of eThority’s interactive data discovery process, new questions that come from initial answers can be resolved on the spot - eliminating the time consuming process of internal report requests.

As your organization grows, so will eThority. With an industrial strength interface engine and data core, eThority is equally at home with the small organization or the multi-national large enterprise. Through efficient data brokering, massive data sets can be processed in truly remarkable time frames.

Telecommunications represents a rising operating expense for organizations of all sizes. Managing the invoices and inventory transactions add a considerable cost on top of this expense.

From ordering to billing, the telecommunication lifecycle is plagued with inefficiencies. Most enterprises do not know how much they spend on telecom or how they can best manage and optimize their current telecom inventory. On average, 10% of telecom service expenses are in error. Lack of accurate and up to date inventory information is the greatest cause for these discrepancies. According to the Gartner Group, companies not proactively auditing invoices on a regular basis could be forfeiting $100,000 of every $1,000,000 spent on telecom.

Universal Data Solutions created the ECIS module to give companies greater control over their telecommunication needs. ECIS is a telecom lifecycle management application that simplifies the ordering process, effectively manages telecommunications inventory and validates your monthly bills. ECIS will help you build an accurate inventory and maintaining ongoing control over the order management process.

Uncontrolled telecom service requests leads to increased costs. The ECIS ordering and provisioning procurement tool enables you to place orders quickly and get status reports on their progress. You can create summaries of your pending and completed orders and generate reports of interest.

A separate provisioning and billing database are often maintained by Telecom providers and they usually aren't linked. That inevitably leads to errors, such as a bill being issued for a service that hasn't been installed yet or continued billing for a disconnected service. ECIS will help you avoid such situations by carefully documenting your provisioning activity and reconciling it with your billing inventory on a regular basis.

Simplifying internal telecommunications represents an opportunity for fiscal and operational improvement. ECIS is the tool that can get you there.