Solutions
Forward-thinking governments are focusing on improving the quality of their social infrastructure as a strategic imperative to improve service delivery and cut costs. Innovative agencies are embracing new Social Enterprise Management (SEM) models to achieve successful client-focused outcomes. SEM is a business and technology model that is enabled by a new generation of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, specifically designed to meet the unique requirements of social services organizations.
The Cúram Business Application Suite supports over 100 Social Assistance, Family Services, Disability and Workers’ Compensation, and Employment programs globally.
By delivering a state-of-the-art Dynamic Solutions capability, organizations can configure new programs without costly and time intensive project development. The Cúram Business Application Suite is completely componentized to allow organizations the most flexible deployment options available; from program specific deployment to enterprise deployment, to common business process incremental modernization.
MEETING THE CHALLENGES
The Cúram Business Application Suite is the leading COTS solution specifically designed to address the challenges facing social enterprises. Based on Social Enterprise Management principles, the Cúram Business Application Suite supports common business fundamentals along with program specific rules and processes. The Cúram solution provides all of the fundamentals that lead to a consistent, accurate, responsive, timely, and cost-effective solution. Cúram lays the foundation of an outcome-based service delivery model that meets today’s business and social objectives, as well as tomorrow’s challenges.
The Cúram Business Application Suite, underpinned by the Cúram Enterprise Framework, comprises domain-specific business and technology components built on a modular enterprise architecture that provides agencies with deep functionality and fast, flexible deployment capabilities without tying the enterprise to a specific systems integration partner or technology platform. The Cúram Enterprise Framework encompasses rules, processes functionality and technology required for today’s dynamic business needs. It integrates and provides a cohesive technology that supports and enables the adoption of future business; business infrastructure increases developer productivity while decreasing time-to-production for new application development or integrating projects needs quickly and efficiently. The integrated tools deliver extensive business and program functionality assimilated into a common and extensible foundation that provides a broad repository of SEM-based technology and business services.
Supporting Materials
IBM has acquired a maker of social services software to bolster its Smarter Cities strategy, which aims to help government agencies -- particularly those in metropolitan areas--deliver services to residents more effectively through technology. -- InformationWeek, IBM Acquires Social Services Software Developer
