Catholic Health Selects Innotas for Integrated IT Management Solution to Better Manage Projects and Resources

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and BUFFALO, NY--(Marketwired - May 9, 2013) - Innotas (www.innotas.com), a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for IT management, today announced that it has been selected by Catholic Health in Buffalo, NY to provide IT project support for its four acute care facilities, and its ancillary health care sites across Western New York. Innotas offers cloud-based Project Portfolio Management (PPM) and Application Portfolio Management (APM) solutions that enable hospitals and other healthcare organizations to efficiently and effectively manage IT resources, projects and applications, across new initiatives and in support of sustaining operations.

Catholic Health uses the Innotas PPM solution to manage and record all of its project-related information, including status, resource needs and staffing. Innotas' PPM solution is especially valuable for allocating staffing for the many IT projects in process at Catholic Health, including ICD-10 and rolling out new VOIP closets for all of its sites. In addition, now Catholic Health can run reports on staff and projects by resource, and create projections on resource needs and allocations for 2013 and beyond.

According to Tony Pappagallo, Director of IT Projects for Catholic Health, "Innotas provides a very effective solution for tracking the time of our more than 140 IT professionals, and for project management, it helps us better manage our resources and staffing."

Innotas PPM and APM solutions comprise the IT Portfolio Management platform, which provides a strategic and operating layer that helps healthcare IT organizations manage new IT project investments, and support legacy applications, using common resources and tools. This integrated, layered approach provides visibility across the entire organization, helping CIOs and project managers maintain integrity between strategy, objectives, operations and results. It also provides financial impact assessments and highlights systems and resource contingencies across an entire portfolio of IT projects.

"Healthcare IT organizations are extremely complex, and growing more with massive regulatory projects such as EMR and ICD-10," said Kevin Kern, CEO of Innotas. "In light of this increasing intensity, hospitals need help easing the burdens of resource management and project prioritization. We provide a one-stop solution for helping first to understand -- and then to respond -- to evolving needs across the entire IT portfolio."

About Catholic Health System
Formed in 1998 under four religious sponsors, Catholic Health in Buffalo, NY is a non-profit healthcare system that provides care to Western New Yorkers across a network of hospitals, primary care centers, imaging centers, and several other community healthcare ministries. Catholic Health brings together the strengths and talents of more than 8,500 full and part-time associates and 1,400 physicians under one healthcare ministry that stretches across all areas of Western New York.

About Innotas
Innotas, a leading provider of Cloud Solutions for IT Management, delivers a seamless way to manage Resources, Applications, and Projects across all IT. Innotas' solutions include Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Application Portfolio Management (APM), and the Innotas Integration Platform. A leading technology company, Innotas is the recipient the Red Herring 100 North America award, CODiE award and named "Best Places to Work" by the San Francisco Business Times. It was also ranked as a 'Leader' in the Magic Quadrant for Cloud-based Project and Portfolio Management Services by Gartner. Headquartered in San Francisco, Innotas has hundreds of customers nationwide, including Bank of the West, Tiffany & Co., Crocs, Crayola, City of Memphis, RelayHealth, and World Vision.