Lutheran Life Communities Works With Information Builders to Launch BI Solution for Executives

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Feb 10, 2014) - Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced that Lutheran Life Communities, one of the nation's fastest growing senior living systems, has selected WebFOCUS as its BI standard and engaged Information Builders Professional Services to develop dashboards and reports that will deliver operational metrics to Lutheran Life Communities' executives.

For more than 100 years, Lutheran Life Communities was a single-site senior living community in Arlington Heights, Illinois outside of Chicago. The organization has grown in recent years to include six continuing care retirement communities serving thousands of people across Illinois, Florida, and Indiana. This rapid growth has significantly benefitted and improved the lives of Lutheran Life Communities' residents, who enjoy fabulous communities with world-class recreation, dining, and therapy programs. However, that same growth has made it difficult for senior officers and executive directors to obtain a consolidated view of the business.

Working closely with Lutheran Life Communities' in-house personnel, Information Builders is defining key performance indicators (KPIs) to track operational metrics such as census, labor productivity, revenue goals, and culinary statistics. The new BI environment will present real-time snapshots of these metrics through interactive dashboards to keep managers abreast of each facet of the operation. Information Builders is also creating parameterized reports that track important variables such as daily census information, hours per patient per day, revenue earned versus budget, and culinary costs broken down by meal and resident.

"Information Builders' extensive experience with hospitals and insurance companies gave us confidence in their ability to develop a custom, real-time business intelligence environment for our needs," said Roger W. Paulsberg, president and CEO, Lutheran Life Communities. "Our new BI solution will combine data from multiple information systems into one seamless easy-to-understand user interface. Interactive dashboards will deliver actionable information to executives, so we can proactively interface with our operations and expand our services."