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The ETCETERA® Platform facilitates rapid internal development of solutions designed to streamline processes, increase efficiencies and ensure regulatory compliance across the enterprise.
Facilitate: Make (Something) Easier, Help Bring (Something) About
ETCETERA® is the platform for configuring solutions tailored to your project management, operational workflow and administrative workflow requirements that replace enterprise system customizations, legacy applications, technology silos, software subscriptions, orphaned systems and paper-based processes. Behavioral Health organizations accomplish more with ETCETERA®, the flexible no-code/low-code platform that adapts to your unique requirements, compliments your enterprise applications and serves as the platform for simplifying, integrating and optimizing your business processes and data requirements
ETCETERA® Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
ETCETERA® ECM is your browser-based document and file management system for nearly any department and any purpose. It provides for storing and accessing over 100 file types through a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) viewer supporting HTML5 and access on mobile devices. Documents include everything from receipts to E-size drawings, DWG files and reports from host systems. Zoom capabilities make viewing easy, even on small devices in the field. ECM is used to enable other applications and business processes with content and supporting documents.
ETCETERA® Enterprise Process Management (EPM)
ETCETERA® EPM is the browser-based platform used to design, develop and implement online work processes for nearly any business process that include automated processes, comprehensive online user interfaces, data capture and validation, content capture, work routing and validation, rules-based workflows and offline to online work process synchronizations. With EPM, organizations manage the quantity, quality and velocity of applications deployed while minimizing the need for other software products and avoiding the costs of multiple systems.
Examples of Optimized Processes
The ETCETERA® Platform can enhance operational efficiency and project management. By integrating the ETCETERA® ECM and EPM modules, behavioral health organizations can streamline processes in nearly any area of their enterprise. The platform’s flexibility allows it to adapt to various departmental needs, ensuring that data is consistently managed and accessible. This comprehensive approach improves collaboration among teams, reduces administrative burdens, offers just one platform to learn for dozens or hundreds of applications and enhances overall project delivery, ultimately leading to better outcomes and operational excellence. See further information on some of these area uses by clicking the toggles below.
Software – Licensing (own) vs Subscriptions (rent)
There are significant differences in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) between a software license and software subscription and the differences are similar to any other own vs rent scenario. Software licensing often involves an upfront purchase fee which can make the lure of the low entry cost of software subscriptions appealing. Each has its implementation costs if providing solutions unique to the customer, while generic process subscriptions level the playing field removing competitive advantage for those businesses seeking to benefit from their innovation and talented employees.
Subscriptions also come with price accelerators that usually start after years one to three, just like rent. Experiencing a 10% increase in cost year over year for the same subscription will typically double its cost in just 8 years outpacing the business’s margins produced and value received from the subscription. Subscriptions will typically negatively impact business performance in multiple ways, and the escalating cost is just one of those ways.
ScerIS’ banking partner finances ETCETERA® software costs at between 0.00% and 3.99%, offering our customers a monthly cost comparable to subscriptions. Whether using this financing or not, customers achieve a significantly better TCO with an ownership approach rather than with a subscription approach. Better yet, unlike customization services provided in subscriptions, either with the software provider or third parties, ETCETERA® implementation services can be included in the financing package, eliminating upfront costs in favor of a simple monthly cost spanning three to five years.
While the first three to five years of monthly prices may be similar to a subscription, after acquisition of the software license is completed, the ongoing fees drop to software maintenance, which tends to run about 60% to 70% below subscription prices, more when considering the escalations in software subscription prices. If TCO matters to you, you really want to be an owner and not a tenant.
Licensing – Concurrent User vs Other
ScerIS licenses its applications based on “Concurrent Users”. Why, because only the number of users that need access at precisely the same time drives use. Software products and subscriptions that charge for “Named Users” are charging for the availability of access rather than actual use.
Think about a subscription to a hosted application. Does the application server, database server, domain controllers, firewall, network switch or any of the other infrastructure needed to support use actually get used when the user is not logged into the hosted application? Of course not – so why are you paying for software subscriptions and access for named users for part time, once in a while, access?
Likewise, when a user has access to multiple subscriptions but can really only do one thing at a time, does it make sense to have all these subscriptions if the same can be accommodated with one platform?
When you think about it, it just doesn’t make sense, does it?
Featured Success Story
Case Study: Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA)
Challenge: Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) faced challenges with processing self-pay and third-party payments, managing correspondence, and integrating data into their EPIC EHR system.
Solution: ScerIS implemented ETCETERA® ECM and EPM, along with outsourcing services, to manage payment processing, correspondence, and data integration with EPIC.
Results:
- All matching payments processed within 48 hours.
- Enhanced cash posting and balance sheet management.
- Improved reconciliation of payments and correspondence.
- Significant operational efficiencies and cost savings.
Testimonial: “ScerIS has provided a seamless and efficient solution for our payment processing and correspondence management, greatly improving our financial operations.” – Accounts Payable Manager, Cambridge Health Alliance
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