Perot Systems today announced the release of Xcelys(TM) 5.0 Health Plan Core Administration Software. Xcelys 5.0 software is a continuance of Perot Systems' strategy to offer transformative healthcare technology solutions to the health plan market.

Xcelys, formerly called PERADIGM software, will enable Perot Systems to deliver increasing quality and benefits for health plan administration in enterprise IT organizations, fulfilling its commitment to drive excellence in health plan administration. With the capability to execute several extended business functions, Xcelys software's functionality enhancements will increase auto-adjudication and payment accuracy rates resulting in a reduced number of claims held for manual pricing and processing.

In addition to these features, the Xcelys 5.0 software release was recently certified on the Oracle(R)10g platform using Real Application Clusters (RAC). Certifying the software on Oracle 10g and RAC significantly improves claims throughput (measured in claims per second) as well as provides robust load balancing and fail over capability.

"Our customers need flexibility in their ability to deliver new products to the members in their markets, while simultaneously keeping administrative costs low. The new release of Xcelys delivers these tangible business results, and also enhances scalability and dynamic provisioning," said Jim Mapes, Executive Vice President, Perot Systems process solutions group.