Portico Systems
Encyclopedia
Portico Systems based in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
, United States
, and incorporated in the state of Delaware is a nation-wide provider of information technology services and solutions to Health Plans.
Portico has been based in the Greater Philadelphia Region since inception, with offices formerly located in Center City, Blue Bell, and Norristown. The company is currently headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
, a suburb of Philadelphia.
While the bulk of the employees live and work in the Philadelphia area, Portico has employees located nationwide, and a West Coast office just outside Portland, Oregon
.
EE based enterprise class applications with an RDBMS backend. Users interact with an entirely browser based presentation layer, and integration into the health plan is typically via SOAP
, XML over HTTP, RMI
, CORBA
, FTP
, or platform specific application level protocols over TCP/IP.
Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
Blue Bell is a census-designated place in Whitpain Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 6,067....
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, and incorporated in the state of Delaware is a nation-wide provider of information technology services and solutions to Health Plans.
History
Portico Systems was founded in 1997, originally under the name "FMG Technologies, Inc".Portico has been based in the Greater Philadelphia Region since inception, with offices formerly located in Center City, Blue Bell, and Norristown. The company is currently headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
Blue Bell is a census-designated place in Whitpain Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 6,067....
, a suburb of Philadelphia.
While the bulk of the employees live and work in the Philadelphia area, Portico has employees located nationwide, and a West Coast office just outside Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
.
Products and Customers
Portico Systems offers health plans software solutions focused on what the company refers to as "Integrated Provider Management" (IPM).Technologies
Portico products are JavaJava (programming language)
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
EE based enterprise class applications with an RDBMS backend. Users interact with an entirely browser based presentation layer, and integration into the health plan is typically via SOAP
SOAP
SOAP, originally defined as Simple Object Access Protocol, is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks...
, XML over HTTP, RMI
Java remote method invocation
The Java Remote Method Invocation Application Programming Interface , or Java RMI, is a Java application programming interface that performs the object-oriented equivalent of remote procedure calls ....
, CORBA
Çorba
Chorba , ciorbă , shurpa , shorpo , or sorpa is one of various kinds of soup or stew found in national cuisines across Middle East...
, FTP
File Transfer Protocol
File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server...
, or platform specific application level protocols over TCP/IP.