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Grapevine Defero product receives commendation at the 2009 Healthcare Awards. This year's Healthcare Awards, sponsored by the Irish Medical Times (IMT), featured Grapevine Solutions messaging product, "Defero" in conjunction with St Vincent's Healthcare Group. The collaboration was awarded a commendation in the category "Best Use of IT".

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October 2009

St. Vincent's University Hospital use Grapevine's Defero Product to reduce patient appointment cancellations. Grapevine Solutions latest product offering "Defero" is an advance notification system that can send Text Messages (SMS) and Emails to your customers, staff & clients. Defero also supports incoming messages and includes a contacts database, reports and many other features to help interface with your existing customer databases. St. Vincent's Hospital use Defero to send appointment reminders to patients to help reduce the number of patients that do not attend or fail to cancel appointments. To date the system has reduced "Did Not Attend or DNA's" by as much as 30%, resulting in major cost savings and improving patient appointment times. Future plans include using Defero for sending emergency alerts to Hospital Staff and contacting Nursing Staff for staff rostering.

View Sunday Business Post Article View St. Vincent's Hospital Case Study

August 2009

St. Vincent's University Hospital Upgrade Replicated Patient Administration System (PAS) Database to latest version of Caché Technology on a secure Windows 2003 clustered platform. St. Vincent's Hospital replicates it's legacy PAS data to a state of the art Caché database to provide relational access to this data for many systems, including MIS reports, Cancer Care and Labs. Grapevine Solutions RoboDJ replication and indexing products are used to keep the Caché replicated database up to date with real-time updates. The latest addition to this system was to upgrade to the latest version of Caché on a new Windows Cluster server. This ensures that this key replicated database is available at all times.

May 2009

Dublin City Council implement a major upgrade of it's HAPPI systems supplied by Grapevine Solutions. As well as playing a key role in the weekly payroll processing for over 1000 remote employees, HAPPI has become a key provider of payroll, hr and costing information to various departments within Dublin City Council. This upgrade completed by Grapevine and Fujitsu utilises that latest Caché database technology along with the latest Solaris 10 virtual server technology to provide a disaster recovery at every level of the system architecture

October 2008

An Post has launched a new on-line service to buy or renew your TV Licence from the An Post Television Licence website www.tvlicence.ie. This new service was developed by An Post in conjunction with Grapevine Solutions Ltd, An Post's Caché technology partner.

The new service was piloted in December 2007, and officially launched in March 2008 by Minister for Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan,

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For further details please contact Grapevine at 353 1 6218004

March 2008
An Post use HAPPI system to automatically generate Employee Benefit Statements for it's 8000 employees. Grapevine Solutions developed a new "Employee Benefit Statement" Module" for it's HAPPI product which allows companies to calculate and generate a pensions benefit statements for it's employees. An Post are the first larger client to provide this service. For further details please contact Grapevine at 353 1 6218004
December 2007
Using Regulator32 to capture detailed payroll, costing and HR data Dublin City Council reached a milestone of over 76 pay groups covering over 1000 employees. Dublin City Council deployed Regulator32 and HAPPI to capture & archive detailed payroll, hr and costing information across the councils remote sites. For further details please contact Grapevine at 353 1 6218004.
May 2007
Grapevine Solutions sister company Grapevine Mobile Limited comes 3rd place in Intersystems Caché Innovator Awards with their PRIVATEXT product at Intersystems DEVCON 2007 event held in Orlando Florida. Click here for more details.
March 2007
Grapevine Solutions have developed a new IT system for Eircom to allow X-Directory customers to be un-subscribed from Direct Marketing companies own databases. Previously X-Directory customers details were confidential, however only telephone numbers are used to update Direct Marketing companies databases. For further details contact Grapevine at 353 1 6218004.
August 2006
An Post Payroll, Pensions and HR departments have been using Grapevine's HAPPI product for many years. The latest addition to this product for An Post is a new pilot Pensions Benefit Statement system that uses archived payroll details in HAPPI along with real time employee information to produce statutory benefit statements on demand. For further details contact Grapevine at 353 1 6218004.
May 2006
Using Grapevine's HAPPI database along with a suite of Crystal Reports developed by Grapevine Solutions and rolled out to users using Crystal Decisions Seagate Info product, An Post payroll managers and staff have access to real-time payroll information within a matter of minutes using web access to the central HAPPI servers. For more details contact Grapevine on 353 1 6218004.
December 2005
Grapevine Solutions form new company "Grapevine Mobile Limited". Grapevine Mobile will design, develop, market and sell leading edge mobile phone products that will satisfy the demands for mobile services such as secure messaging, directory enquiries and much more.
September 2005
Grapevine Solutions completes development of a new Wholesale Line Rental system for Eircom. This new system is key to Eircom providing a single billing system for all fixed line customers. Click here for full details.
August 2005

Grapevine Solutions introduce a new range of mobile phone products that will solve the inability of mobile phones to provide a secure messaging system. Grapevine's new product range contains products for both business & private use.

May 2005

Grapevine Solutions joins IBM Business Partner program. As an independant software vendor& IBM Business Partner Grapevine Solutions can bring together its own products and services with IBM's range of products & services to provide full range of solutions to our customers.
More information on IBM products & services can be onbtained from www.ibm.com

September 2004
Ensemble Expose, Jurys Westbury, 11th March 2004. Intersystems and Grapevine Solutions host an Ensemble expose to provide information on Enterprise Application Integration and how Intersystems new product Ensemble can make integration faster, simpler and more cost-effective.
March 2004
Grapevine Solutions became Intersystems first Irish Systems Integration Partner for Ensemble. Grapevine will provide consultancy services, including design, development and implementation of Ensemble solutions. More info on the Ensemble Partner program
November 2003
Intersystems launch Ensemble, their new Enterprise Application Integration product. Ensemble is a comprehensive and architecturally consistent Universal Integration Platform that enables exceptionally fast integration and extremely rapid composite application development. Ensemble excels at building and deploying new business solutions that integrate data, orchestrate processes, and enhance the value of existing applications. Ensemble gives you the power to handle a full range of application integration projects, from the complex to the simple, with ease.
October 2003
Dublin City Council go live with HAPPI...
As an initial element of a Job Costing Solution for Dublin City Council, Grapevine's HAPPI™ Data Warehouse has recently gone live for Wages Payroll Data at the Council.
This is a key first step in providing a modern, detailed and flexible Job costing solution in this organisation and represents the fruition of a great deal of effort and commitment from both parties.. By making available the Wages data from the Cyborg Payroll system through the technology of Grapevine's powerful data warehouse product, tasks like benchmarking estimations, retrospection calculations and management reporting are greatly simplified. The next phase of the implementation, the Regulator32™ Distributed Data Entry Module, is in final user acceptance at present and is expected to go live very shortly. Further enhancements are also planned. Watch this space for further news!
April 2003

 


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