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Curam Software, the leading provider of Social Enterprise Management (SEM) software solutions, today announced a Global Strategic Partnership with Cognos, the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions. Utilizing integrated Curam Software and Cognos application functionality, government social enterprises - such as workforce services, health and human services, and social security agencies - can better manage programs to ensure desired outcomes. For example, workforce services agencies can understand and optimize how their programs perform in accelerating citizens' return into the workforce.

Under the partnership, Curam Software and Cognos will continuously optimize their platforms so that social enterprises can take full advantage of the rich dashboards and analytical features available in Cognos, while accessing comprehensive social enterprise information from their Curam Software environment. The combination of these world-class technologies will deliver a seamless experience to agencies, empowering them to unify and present information on a single dashboard.

Utilizing a Cognos dashboard powered by Curam Software, case workers can access mission-critical data in a timely manner in order to improve service delivery and view metrics for tracking cost and performance, such as a trend analysis across cases, clients, and program areas. Agencies benefit from a complete view of services delivered across departments - empowering executives with the visibility they need to make operational decisions while complying with Federal mandates. Social enterprises can leverage the flexible business management product enterprise-wide, allowing case managers to tear down silos and work across agency and program boundaries. Case workers gain new insight to define benefit and service plans to achieve better long-term performance outcomes.

"Improved service delivery and an outcome-focused approach is quickly becoming the mandate across social enterprises," said Ernie Connon, president, Curam Software. "This Cognos partnership provides social enterprises with the ability to unlock data to enable effective decision making and improved service delivery."

"The Curam Software/Cognos partnership provides social enterprises with the increased visibility they require to make more strategic decisions and ensure they achieve better outcomes for citizens," said Terence Atkinson, director of government and education solutions, Cognos. "Combining Cognos' industry-leading insights in BI and performance management with Curam Software's expertise in SEM will give agencies the ability to leverage existing investments to provide a comprehensive view of the case management process and the most current information to those involved."

SEM is a category of enterprise software that is citizen-centric and leverages Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products to transform as well as modernize health, human services, labor, and social security agencies. SEM provides comprehensive enterprise eligibility IT solutions crossing agency boundaries, simplifying policies, and integrating with existing technology. SEM fosters holistic, convenient services for citizens, as well as provides screening for needs and referrals to state and community-based resources.

About Curam Software:

Curam Software is the leading provider of Social Enterprise Management (SEM) software solutions, delivering best-in-class applications for social enterprises globally including, health and human services, workforce services, and social security organizations. Using the Curam Business Application Suite(TM), agencies can immediately reap the benefits of client-centric business processes and an outcomes-driven integrated service delivery model. The Curam Business Application Suite, underpinned by the Curam Enterprise Framework(TM), combines the advantages of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software, an enterprise platform and service oriented architecture with the business and technical flexibility required to allow agencies to implement solutions to meet their strategic objectives. Curam Software is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with additional offices located in New York, Washington, D.C., United Kingdom, and Bangalore, India. For more information, visit www.curamsoftware.com.

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