The new website for Ardentia – a leading provider of business intelligence solutions using advanced web-based technology – has gone live.

The new site – www.ardentia.co.uk – reflects the Staffordshire–based company’s new corporate identity, unveiled at the beginning of 2004. The site is also designed to mirror the company’s widening customer base. With a long track record in providing information solutions to healthcare, Ardentia is finding increasing demand for its ‘intelligent business intelligence’ solutions from the commercial and government sectors.

Customers have been drawn by Ardentia’s ability to provide important business information that is personalised for each individual. Using web-based technology created by Ardentia’s own development team, the solutions can be rapidly developed and rapidly deployed across an organisation with minimal disruption to everyday working routines.

“Ardentia makes business intelligence easy for all,” says Sales & Marketing Director, John Kane, “our new website makes it easy for everyone to find out what we can do for them, regardless of the sector in which they work.”

Ardentia – a leading business intelligence solutions company – has a new home: Ardentia House at Staffordshire Technology Park, close to the heart of the UK motorway network.

The three-storey building was purpose–built as a corporate HQ and is designed to house not only Ardentia’s 60 staff, but also to provide space for the fast-growing company to expand further.

Previously based in Sutton Coldfield, the company is known as an innovator in the field of business intelligence. Customers such as the NHS, as well as Government and private sector clients, have been drawn by Ardentia’s ability to provide important business information that is personalised for each individual.

Following recent success in signing a contract worth about £9million with BT Syntegra, Ardentia is providing the reporting solution that will form part of the NHS Integrated Care Records Service (ICRS). This major project will transform the way in which GPs and Hospitals gain access to patient records.

“As well as celebrating a new office, we’re celebrating new business and have welcomed new staff on board too,” said Managing Director, Gary Luke.

Business intelligence solutions provider Ardentia is to play an important role in developing the new NHS integrated Care Records Service as one of a number of leading suppliers working with prime contractor BT Syntegra.

BT Syntegra has awarded Ardentia a nine-year contract worth about £9 million to deliver the technology to report on information and data held within the NHS Care Records Service. Ultimately housing a summary care record for every NHS patient in England, the NHS Care Records Service will be one of the largest databases in the world and will revolutionise the way NHS patient information is managed.

Under the contract, Ardentia will provide the common user interface to manage access to and extracts from the NHS integrated Care Records Service.

“As well as providing information and reporting solutions for clinical and management reporting needs, our extensive experience of providing in–depth data quality analysis for the NHS–Wide Clearing Service plays a key role in the programme.” said Ardentia’s chief executive Tom Mulhern.

“Ardentia supplies information and reporting solutions to thousands of users in the NHS already,” BT’s programme director Neil Lamonby said. “It has a solid reputation in the healthcare market and the qualities we look for in a strategic partner.”

The NHS Care Records Service will enable healthcare professionals across England to access a patient’s NHS Care Record whenever and wherever they are involved in the care of that patient. So, GPs and clinicians will be able to access the NHS Care Record of patients they are treating who live outside of their local trust area. Currently patient records are only available to the patient’s designated GP surgery or local NHS trust.

Also, patients will no longer be required to present information about their medical history at different stages of the healthcare process. The result will be a far more efficient and streamlined service for accessing relevant patient data from any trust within the country. This will change the way information is shared as well as improve the quality of care delivered.

The National Application Service Provider contributes to the main thrust of the NHS Care Records Service, which is designed to improve and streamline the vast amounts of information and data flowing throughout the NHS every day.

Leading business intelligence solutions–provider Ardentia has unveiled a new corporate identity to coincide with the company´s move to a purpose–built headquarters building: Ardentia House at Staffordshire Technology Park.

The new look comprises a new logo, new corporate colours and new literature, with a totally redesigned website planned for later this year. The new identity also features Ardentia’s latest positioning statement, ‘Intelligent Business Intelligence’.

“Ardentia is known as an innovator in the field of business intelligence,” says Tom Mulhern, Chief Executive. “Our new corporate identity reflects our ability to provide customers with an intelligent approach to business intelligence. Instead of leaving people with a lot of software and little knowledge of how to make it work, ARDENTIA prides itself on providing easy–to–use and highly scalable complete business solutions that can be rapidly deployed.”

The publication of a new corporate brochure marks the first stage in the implementation of Ardentia’s 2004 corporate identity programme. Literature tailored to the commercial, healthcare and government sectors are also planned.