Kids Hope United Improves Foster Care for Thousands of Florida Youths with Help from Hyperion Software
January 08 2007 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Through its Family Services of Metro Orlando (FSMO) affiliate, Kids
Hope United cares for 3,200 children in Florida�s Orange and
Osceola counties. To keep close track of children in its system �
and to regularly measure the performance of FSMO and its
subcontractors � Kids Hope United recently deployed Hyperion System
9 BI+ software from Hyperion (Nasdaq Global Select:HYSL), the
global leader in Business Performance Management (BPM) software.
The nationally acclaimed organization, with an annual operating
budget of $96 million, oversees the operations of FSMO, the state�s
leading not-for-profit agency dedicated to caring for abused,
neglected and abandoned children. FSMO contracts day-to-day
fostering to case management organizations (CMOs), whose
performance Kids Hope United measures with Hyperion System 9 BI+
software. As key players in Florida�s recently privatized foster
care management system, Kids Hope United and FSMO must demonstrate
it is consistently providing Florida�s kids with quality service.
With Hyperion software, the group has been able to show that FSMO
meets Florida state standards, measure the success of CMOs in
providing care for children, and enable FSMO leaders to identify
and address the root causes of problems and trends. The Hyperion
solution gives FSMO managers dashboard-based views of the entire
adoption process, delivering pertinent and timely information about
the location and status of every child. The dashboards can track
kids from the point at which they enter the system to the day when
they are adopted�helping to prevent needy kids from falling through
the cracks. About 200 case managers and supervisors across five
CMOs also access the system. �With Hyperion System 9 BI+, we use
computed items to automatically answer many of the questions we
have to answer about a child, so that we can much more quickly
locate him or her in our system,� said Mark Monn, director of
performance management and research at Kids Hope United. �We now
have a map that shows where all our kids are and which case
management organizations are doing the best job of placing them.�
Kids Hope United selected Hyperion System 9 BI+ over competing
solutions from Business Objects, Cognos and Microsoft. The Hyperion
solution streamlines and automates a data-intensive process that
requires dozens of small steps to process a child correctly.
Previously, adoption workers relied on Excel spreadsheets to sort
data and perform counts. But today, Hyperion software delivers a
broader, richer view of information. About Hyperion Hyperion
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leader in Business Performance Management software. More than
12,000 customers in 90 countries rely on Hyperion both for insight
into current business performance and to drive performance
improvement. With Hyperion software, businesses collect, analyze
and share data across the organization, linking strategies to plans
and monitoring execution against goals. Hyperion integrates
financial management applications with a business intelligence
platform into a single management system for the global enterprise.
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