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InterSystems Ensemble (legacy product)

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What is InterSystems Ensemble (legacy product)?

Ensemble from global company InterSystems was a middleware and application infrastructure offering. It is a legacy product, now replaced by InterSystems IRIS.

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All in one. The Swiss Army knife of integration

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Francisco Lopez de las HerasView profile
Desarrollador Senior, Analista at Salutic Soluciones S.L. (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy to use: The simplicity of its programming language allows fast learning. Visual environment to generate complex code.
  • Robust: A fall of the system will not be a problem. Never again will information of the transactions in progress be lost. Never more messages lost.
  • Connect to the world: The most popular connection is possible to implement quickly. FTP, File folder, TCP, SMPT, REST.... all method are ready to use. Only define "where" and "how"

Cons

  • Expensive: It's expensive for small companies.
  • It needs more memory and space on the hard disk than usual for other developments in other languages. The information is stored completely, so that too much information persists. It needs a great management of treatment of messages to avoid collapsing the system.

Return on Investment

  • We have integrated 5 laboratories in a treatment monitoring system in less than a month of development. Being able to integrate the following in a period no longer than a week.

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Mirth

Ensemble: The only choice for Application and Technology Integration

Nigel Timothy Bloom-SalmView profile
Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Right-ePharmacy (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Fast Development.
  • Incredible performance especially in the realm of massive transactional based data systems.
  • Extensive and customizable adapter technologies for integration with just about any system/technology current IT development has need for in this day and age of developing single user interfaces to multiple data sources and/or applications.
  • One of the most secure database technologies available.

Cons

  • Given that Ensemble and Cache are one of if not the only true fully object orientated database/development technologies for massive transactional data systems its customizability is extensive and it just comes down to the creativity of the developer to get the products to pretty much do whatever they want to do with it. However, this is not necessarily obvious to newcomers to the technology.
  • The developer community could do with greater participation from the software developers/application specialists and engineers within InterSystems.
  • More extensive documentation and greater access to proven working solutions particularly in the realm of some of the lesser known or new and upcoming technologies.

Return on Investment

  • I was able to develop a fully functional integration engine linking pharmacy systems with pharmacy robotics in less than three months in comparison with the year that the previous software development company had taken to develop a solution that was incomplete and did not work using Microsoft technology.
  • The engine I developed was so stable and adaptable that it quickly replaced the equivalent engine supplied by the robot manufacturers own software development team.
  • It has proven to be so effective that it is now the product of choice for future developments within the organization replacing Microsoft technologies which were the previous company standard.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft BizTalk Server

Other Software Used

Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, Oracle Data Warehouse

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