Truven Health Analytics Achieves Oracle Exadata Ready Status

Truven Health Analytics Achieves Oracle Exadata Ready Status

Brian Erni, 631-584-2200

, formerly the Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, today announced that the Truven Health Advantage Suite™ healthcare data and analytics platform version 5 has achieved Oracle Exadata Ready status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). Today’s announcement demonstrates that Truven Health supports Truven Health Advantage Suite version 5 with an Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Linux.

Truven Health is a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork.

“Organizations responsible for managing healthcare in today’s marketplace must be able to quickly and accurately integrate and interpret data from dozens of diverse systems and sources,” said Mike Boswood, president and CEO of Truven Health Analytics. “By achieving Oracle Exadata Ready status for our Advantage Suite platform, we can ensure that our customers are able run their data and analytics in a high performing environment.”

Oracle Exadata Ready is part of the Oracle Exastack Ready program which allows partners, such as Truven Health Analytics, to be recognized by Oracle for developing, testing, and tuning their applications on Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, or Oracle SPARC SuperCluster engineered systems.Oracle Exadata delivers extreme performance and is the ideal database platform for OLTP applications, data warehouses as well as the varied and unpredictable workloads of cloud computing. It is a complete package of servers, storage, networking, and software that is massively scalable, secure and redundant. Oracle Linux brings the latest Linux innovations to market, delivering extreme performance, advanced scalability, and reliability for enterprise applications, at a lower cost.

The Oracle Exastack Ready program recognizes Truven Health Analytics as having applications that leverage the latest Oracle technology to better support joint customers.

“Our participation in the Oracle Exastack Ready program reflects our commitment to delivering a world-class customer experience with a high performance, high capacity, industry leading database infrastructure,” said Tony Donofrio, Truven Health Analytics senior vice president and Chief Technology Officer. “This is a key component of providing that experience and scaling our infrastructure capabilities as our customers’ data volume, variety, and intelligence requirements rapidly expand.”

“When OPN members such as Truven Health Analytics leverage the latest component products of Oracle Exadata Database Machine as the foundation for their applications, they benefit from a complete, integrated and cloud-ready infrastructure that will help them utilize new features and functionality and drive innovation,” said Kevin O’Brien, Senior Director, ISV and SaaS Strategy, Oracle. “We are pleased to see Truven Health Analytics achieve Oracle Exadata Ready status as this significant milestone helps equip them to deliver superior value to customers.”

Truven Health Analytics delivers unbiased information, analytic tools, benchmarks and services to the healthcare industry. Hospitals, government agencies, employers, health plans, clinicians, and pharmaceutical companies have relied on its solutions for over 30 years. Truven Health Analytics combines deep clinical, financial and healthcare management expertise with innovative technology platforms and information assets to make healthcare better, collaborating with customers to uncover and realize opportunities for improving quality, efficiency, and outcomes. Truven Health Analytics owns some of the most trusted, proven brands in healthcare such as Micromedex, Action OI and Advantage Suite. Truven Health Analytics employs approximately 2000 people worldwide and has its principal offices in Ann Arbor, Mich; Chicago; and Denver. For more information, please visit .

The Oracle Exastack program helps enable Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and other members of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) to rapidly build and deliver faster, more reliable applications. Leveraging the Oracle Exastack program, qualifying OPN members have access to Oracle performance experts and dedicated labs for testing and tuning their applications on Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle SPARC SuperCluster. With an Oracle Exastack Optimized status, partners will receive access to corresponding Oracle branding, logos and related benefits to effectively differentiate their offerings. Customers can be confident when selecting Oracle Exastack Optimized applications that they are supported, and have been tested and tuned with the goal to achieve optimal performance, scalability and reliability. Also part of the program, Oracle Exastack Ready is dedicated to helping ISVs run their solutions on the latest major release of Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle SPARC SuperCluster and their component products, including Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux and Oracle VM. These products provide partners with a lower cost and high performance infrastructure for database and application workloads across on-premise and cloud based environments. To find out more, visit

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