Information Technology

Reliable technology provides flexibility and security for your data needs

Infrastructure

The Argus network infrastructure is built on leading edge technologies and a powerful internetworking architecture. We have implemented a fully redundant network design, to provide the most robust data delivery possible. The most advanced security technologies and practices have also been integrated into the Argus network. Argus offers a variety of web based applications and continues to develop new applications that are web enabled to meet the convenience and accessibility needs of your business outcomes.

Systems Products supporting claims processing and related activities Proprietary reporting options Rebate administration Member Access Physician connectivity applications

Secure facility safeguards your information

Argus' information system platforms are located at the 163,000 square foot Winchester Data Center (WDC) owned and operated by our parent company. Winchester houses a 76,000 square foot computer room, of which 2,500 square feet is dedicated to Argus equipment. Our clients rely on dedicated, secure and reliable data systems and disaster recovery. Our data center is protected by state-of-the art physical and electronic security, climate control, and 24 x 7 operations monitoring. The primary data center is one of the nation's largest and most advanced private data centers with a systems capacity of more than 20,000 MIPS.

Connectivity assured by redundancy in every critical aspect

• These extra features are all online, interconnected, and ready to serve as a fail-safe backup in the event of any individual component failure.
• Each of our IP providers alone has more than enough bandwidth to enable our clients to remain connected to us without any network degradation.
• All of our data, even that data which resides on our HTTP server, is backed up at Winchester Data Center.

A secure, flexible, suite of cost-effective connectivity and file transfer solutions

• Web File Transfer (WFT)
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
• Connect:Direct (NDM)

Enterprise Architecture provides enhanced outcomes

Our Enterprise Architecture program utilizes a framework that assists IT in reaching goals in: customer self-service functionality, improved performance, availability, and scalability, reduced cost and time to implementation, improved understanding of the impact of proposed customer changes, structure, and to stay loosely coupled with technology to provide flexibility.

Testing platforms provide quality control

The Argus Testing/Development infrastructure provides internal testing checks in Production, Development, Benefit Simulation, and Quality Control. Unit and system testing are performed on the Development platform and independently verified on the QC platform, where both functional and regression testing are performed. Detailed test scripts are used to ensure thorough testing and our Parallel Platforms allow for an additional level of regression testing. To assure your outcomes are being met, we provide the ability for you to perform your own testing on our Web-based UAT platform. You can be confident that results using our multi-checkpoint system will fulfill your business outcomes.