One Illinois-based medical facility is moving to the cloud—upgrading its current software with the help of managed cloud services from NaviSite.

Springfield Clinic, the multi-specialty medical clinic with over 300 providers in an array of fields will use NaviSite’s (News - Alert) cloud-based managed application services to support its Oracle PeopleSoft human resources, payroll and financial applications.

The clinic will deploy the cloud management services in an effort to reduce demands on its own IT resources, mitigate risk and significantly lower IT costs by upgrading its PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management and PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management applications to the latest version.

Jim Hewitt, CIO of Springfield Clinic noted its ongoing partnership with Navisite is due to the “exceptional support and upgrade services as part of its managed application services offering.”

“When we considered this latest PeopleSoft upgrade, we recognized that moving these applications to NaviSite's cloud would yield significant cost savings and allow us to maximize our PeopleSoft investment. NaviSite's cloud-enabled Managed Application Services provide built-in security and control, disaster recovery, usage-based pricing, service level guarantees, and unlimited functional and technical support that includes upgrades, allowing us to focus on enhancing our healthcare services rather than running applications," said Hewitt.

Navisite’s Senior Vice President of Service Delivery, Roger Schwanhausser, said its role has always been the “transparent extension” of the clinic’s IT department.

“Our full breadth of cloud-based application lifecycle management services includes important – and highly differentiated – features, such as upgrades and full support, as well as a staff of more than 300 business application experts that understand the complexities of managing and running business applications," Schwanhausser added.