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News release
3/15/2007
Sweet-Billing Passes Tests That Competitors Fail
“When hearing of a competitive system that did experience overload, and in effect, debilitated its owners (an ambulance service), Ortivus wanted the assurance, as well as the proof to our customers, that the same would not be the reality of an Ortivus software system.”
As organizations grow and become more reliant on efficient operations to maintain their business goals and objectives, anything that hinders the efficiency can become serious very quickly. Although no one especially likes to admit that computers “rule our world,” the reality is that if they do not operate as we expect them to, we become incapacitated very quickly.
To complicate the matter, there is often the “unknown” aspect of computer systems: “What happens to our software if the operating system changes?” or “Can the software be broken with an overload of data or in receipt of unrecognized data?” These questions may not seem important in the daily routine of business operations…until the system goes down.
Ortivus is dedicated to taking every measure possible in preventative assurance that our software supports and advances your business success, rather than detract from it. When hearing of a competitive system that did experience overload, and in effect, debilitated its owners (an ambulance service), Ortivus wanted the assurance, as well as the proof to our customers, that the same would not be the reality of an Ortivus software system. Therefore, this past fall, Ortivus sought the means to accomplish this objective.
In August 2006, Ortivus employed the services of an independent partner in the CRIM Software Test Center of Montreal, Quebec, Canada to define and execute a performance test strategy to determine that Sweet-Billing could sustain a load of 2,097 transactions with 120 users within 1 hour on a database containing 5,000,000 calls.
The users where divided up as following:
VirtualUsers |
Transaction |
70 |
Call Entry |
22 |
Collection Entry |
23 |
Payment Entry |
1 |
Daily Reports (Credit) |
1 |
Daily Reports (Call & Patient Collections) |
1 |
Daily Billing |
1 |
Monthly Reporting |
1 |
SQL Server Backup |
Total: 120 |
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After over 250 test sessions were executed, the conclusion of the test reports that with adequate hardware, network components, and proper configuration of the system Sweet-Billing met this challenge successfully.
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About Ortivus:
Ortivus offers integrated software solutions for Emergency Medical Services and Public Safety. The North American Subsidiary develops and markets the following pre-hospital applications: EMS billing, patient care reporting, computer-aided dispatch, automatic vehicle location, mobile data application, and patient vital signs monitoring and data transmission.
The Ortivus vision is to be the customer’s preferred provider of integrated information and decision-making software support systems in the Emergency Medical Service, Public Safety and Healthcare industries.
Ortivus operates out of two North American corporate office locations (Decorah, Iowa, US and Montreal, Quebec, Canada), as well as several international locations (Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Great Britain).