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The Center for Health Affairs Partners with Association Analytics to Help Organizations Make Decisions with Confidence

The Center for Health Affairs, the 105-year-old advocate for Northeast Ohio hospitals, today announced a strategic partnership with Association Analytics, a leading provider of business intelligence and analytics products, services, tools and educational materials for association professionals. The alliance provides The Center’s members and clients access to Association Analytics’ Software as a Service (SaaS) platform Acumen, a cloud-based solution for analytics and business intelligence that helps organizations get a complete picture of their operations with real-time data, available at any time and on any device.

As a prime analytics solution for associations, Acumen offers hundreds of out-of-the-box visualizations configured to the unique business parameters of associations. Acumen is designed for easy organizational implementation with hundreds of pre-built data integrations in key source systems – making it simple to bring together data from anywhere to get a single source of truth for data. Acumen has helped organizations achieve results that include revenue growth, increased retention and engagement, lower marketing costs and higher event attendance.

Acumen is built using industry-leading technologies and provides a hybrid data architecture built on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Power BI. The Association Analytics team supplies a package that includes maintenance, hosting, licenses, upgrades, training and support – and their team of data experts offer consultation that reduces risk, saves time and allows clients to stay on top of technology trends and focus their efforts on analysis rather than data wrangling. 

Founded in 1999, Association Analytics has helped associations make informed decisions with confidence, aiding them in their efforts to achieve their organizational mission and business goals. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Association Analytics has a nationwide staff who provides strategic consulting, data architecture, data quality management, data visualizations, analysis and training.

Association Analytics is the most recent addition to The Essentials Group’s slates of Business & Consulting and Data & Technology vendors. Launched in January 2020, The Essentials Group is the latest business line of The Center, providing a portfolio of high-quality products and services aimed to drive efficiencies and bottom-line impact to clients and members of The Center.

About The Center for Health Affairs: With a rich history as the nation's first regional hospital association, The Center for Health Affairs has served as the collective voice of Northeast Ohio hospitals for more than 100 years. The Center continues the legacy of its founders, working collaboratively to increase the efficiency of healthcare delivery, providing insightful healthcare information to the public and undertaking initiatives aimed at improving the health of the community. 

About Association Analytics: Founded in 1999, Association Analytics is an innovator in bringing data analytics to the association market. Leading organizations use our SaaS platform, Acumen, to combine data from their many technology systems into our cloud-based platform that delivers intuitive visualizations and dashboards. Armed with insights from our platform, associations tackle important challenges like member retention, engagement, revenue generation and improved event performance. Our mission is to transform the way associations do business by providing world class software solutions that empower associations to make data-guided decisions with confidence. We are headquartered in Arlington, VA with team members spread throughout the U.S.

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