Itanium Solutions Alliance Enterprise Innovation Awards Finalist 2007: Kindred Healthcare

Summary: Itanium Solutions Alliance, Vol. 6, "Kindred Healthcare: Finalist in the Enterprise Innovation Awards for 2007", published June 26, 2007, with guest Daniel Poff, Director of Database Administration and SAP Basis for the company. In this sixth interview of our series, we explore Kindred Healthcare's major upgrade challenge from a five-year old server platform and how they dealt with issues such as dramatic growth in business complexity, internal reorganizations, business acquisitions, and an over 10X increase in overall database size. Thanks to the creative work and very successful upgrade driven by Daniel Poff and his team, Kindred Healthcare was named a finalist in the 2007 Itanium Solutions Alliance awards, in the Enterprise Innovation Category.