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InterSystems Introduces DeepSee
Software Innovator Delivers Embedded Real-Time Business Intelligence Transactional Systems
Sydney, Aust. September 30, 2008 Responding to the growing demand for business intelligence (BI) capabilities that enable real-time decision-making for operational business processes, InterSystems Corporation today announced InterSystems DeepSee™ embedded real-time BI software. DeepSee aims to significantly broaden the use of BI to decision makers at all organisation levels, driving more effective day-to-day execution across the enterprise.
DeepSee is the newest offering in the InterSystems product line. The innovative software family also includes the InterSystems CACHÉ® high-performance object database, InterSystems HealthShare™ platform for regional and national electronic health records, InterSystems Ensemble® rapid integration platform and InterSystems TrakCare™ advanced Web-based healthcare information system.
Embedded DeepSee business intelligence capabilities will shortly be available in many Australian-developed software applications built on InterSystems technologies, including the SurgiDat® Patient Centric Inventory Automation and Patient Billing solution. DeepSee will allow users of SurgiDat’s Patient Centric Inventory Automation solution to analyse in real-time the cost of materials on a per-patient basis to reduce wastage, increase billable items and improve efficiency in healthcare delivery.
“DeepSee is a serious BI tool for analysing data collected in real time within the clinical pathway,” said Todd Kemp, Founder of Brisbane-based Medical Systems Design Pty Ltd. “With DeepSee, SurgiDat will be able to perform full costings of materials for each patient and identify stock usage and spikes, providing users and managers with dashboards and traffic lights to readily inform; this capability is pretty unique in the healthcare sector. SurgiDat will provide a graphical reporting tool based upon real-time workflow, inventory, financial and patient information for our customers here in Australia and now with SurgiDat Corporation in the U.S.A.”
Making BI Fast, Easy, Cost-EffectiveDeepSee is offered as a high-performance, cost-effective alternative to today's array of BI products. These traditional products are typified by massive data warehouses where information is stored offline based on data models built by expert business analysts who are, all too often, unfamiliar with core transactional business systems. Adopting such standalone tools often means upfront consulting / implementation costs running to hundreds of thousands of dollars. With most of today’s BI products, analytics are separated from the operational applications that run the business and the information obtained can be hours, days or even weeks old. "As a result, BI has been among the most over-promised and under-delivered of all IT solutions for decades. The failures and shortfalls are legendary," according to Denis Tebbutt, InterSystems Managing Director in Australia.
The focus of embedded real-time BI is delivery of business intelligence capabilities directly within transactional applications. In this way, users can access current operational data in context and use BI to make immediate changes in workflows, adjust business rules, or take other actions to optimise organisational performance.
"There are some situations, such as long-range planning by staff analysts, where historical data can be satisfactory," Tebbutt noted. "However, running a business effectively in today's competitive landscape requires access to fresh operational data in daily decision-making processes."
With DeepSee, BI is:
- Fast—Utilising InterSystems’ breakthrough transactional bit map indexing technology that provides excellent retrieval performance for complex queries plus top-tier update performance for high-volume transaction processing, information is accessible in real time.
- Easy—Application developers who use DeepSee prebuild graphs, charts, tables, reports and dashboards that are seamlessly embedded within the application system. Operational end users get the information they need to compete more effectively and to deliver the high level of customer service demanded in today's environment.
- Cost-effective—Traditional BI requirements to build and maintain costly data warehouses are eliminated.
DeepSee's design provides professional application developers with the BI capabilities needed to extend and modernise existing applications as well as create new applications that are BI-enabled from the start. And, for large user organisations in healthcare, commercial and government sectors, DeepSee makes it possible to provide end users with the information they need to make timely, critical decisions on the business frontline.
"The hallmark of real-time BI solutions is that they answer the question ‘what should I do differently right now?’ By embedding action-oriented information displays with drill down access directly into run-the-enterprise applications, DeepSee connects decision-makers with the information they need in real time," Tebbutt said.
Pricing and Platforms
DeepSee runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, UNIX and OpenVMS platforms. Pricing begins at AU$7,500 ex GST.
About InterSystems
InterSystems Corporation is a global software product company with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and offices in 22 countries. InterSystems provides innovative products that enable fast development, deployment, and integration of enterprise-class applications. InterSystems CACHÉ® is a high performance object database that makes applications faster and more scalable. InterSystems Ensemble® is a rapid integration platform that enriches applications with new functionality, and makes them connectable. InterSystems HealthShare™ is a platform that leverages existing healthcare applications to rapidly create regional or national electronic health records. InterSystems DeepSee™ is software that makes it possible to add embedded real-time business intelligence in transactional systems, enabling better operational decisions.
InterSystems also offers InterSystems TrakCare™, an advanced Web-based healthcare information system that is installed in leading hospitals in 25 countries. TrakCare is not available in the U.S.
InterSystems is the world’s #1 vendor of database and integration technologies for healthcare applications. InterSystems products are used by thousands of hospitals and labs, including all 19 hospitals on the Honor Roll of America's Best Hospitals as rated by
U.S. News and World Report. For more information, visit InterSystems.com.
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