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U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services Nominated As An Excellence.Gov Finalist
For Altum, Inc.'s SCS OnDemand
Reston,
VA. January 16, 2007
- Altum, Inc. is pleased to announce that the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been nominated as
one of the top 20 finalists of the 2007 Industry Advisory Council’s (IAC’s)
Excellence.Gov awards for its Scientific Coding System (SCS) OnDemand system.
SCS OnDemand, developed by NIH’s Center for Information Technology (CIT) and
Altum, Inc., was chosen for its demonstrated collaboration and innovation, as
well as effectiveness, efficiency, security, privacy and cost savings. Earlier
this month, SCS OnDemand was recognized with an NIH Award of Merit in
recognition of the team’s significant contributions towards the initiation,
management, and technical support of the Scientific Coding System OnDemand
service offering.
SCS OnDemand is a grants
tracking and reporting system that assists NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) in
producing the statutorily required annual reports to Congress on close to $30B
in grants and contracts. SCS OnDemand was created through the collaboration of
nine NIH Institutes and Centers, consolidating several stove-pipe scientific
coding systems into a single enterprise solution providing enormous cost savings
to the participants. NIH Institutes and Centers to be recognized for this
achievement include:
·
Center for
Information Technology
·
Fogarty
International Center
·
National Center
for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
·
National
Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
·
National
Institute of Nursing Research
·
National
Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
·
National
Institute of Mental Health
·
National Human
Genome Research Institute
·
National
Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Rakesh Nayak, Altum’s
Federal Practice Vice President mentioned, “We applaud the leadership of NIH,
and the individuals at each Institute and Center, for their vision and
enthusiasm to work together to create such a powerful solution. We congratulate
NIH on attaining this nomination and thank them for choosing Altum to help them
achieve their mission.”
About Altum, Inc.
Altum provides industry-leading Grants
Management, Knowledge Management, and Performance Management solutions. Since
1997, Altum has provided innovative software products and services to
philanthropic and government organizations. Altum’s products include Easygrants®, a highly configurable E-grants solution that meets the unique
needs of grantmaking organizations; AltumQM™, a tool for the point-and-click
generation of SQL queries by inexperienced end users; and Infor MPC, the
industry leading performance management solution ranked #1 by Ventana Research
in 2005 and 2006.
Altum is proud to
be nominated two years in a row as one of the 50 fastest growing technology
companies in Virginia as well as one of the fastest 500 growing technology
companies in North America (www.fast500.com).
Founded in 1997, Altum is a privately held corporation headquartered in Reston,
VA, just outside Washington, D.C. with an additional location in Burlington,
Vermont.
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