BridgeForward Software, a leading provider of application integration technology to the healthcare industry will introduce an embeddable, private-label version of its flagship interface engine, ClearSpan Server for the European market at the World of Health IT Conference being held in Vienna, Austria next week. The new product, named Edge4, reduces the challenge and cost of application integration for "Best of Breed" software suppliers who must integrate their solutions into their customer's legacy environment. Over the past year Edge4 has been installed in more than 700 US GP offices, hospitals and other healthcare sites by BridgeForward software partners as an embedded feature of their "Best of Breed" solutions.
"We are not in the habit of licensing or bundling other vendors products into our solutions, but trying to keep up with the varied integration requirements of our customers was costing us business and costing us time. We finally hit our pain threshold and decided to give Edge4 a try. Now, my only regret is that we didn't do it sooner. Our customer's integrating requirements are no longer an issue for us." - Paul Egerman, CEO, eScription, Inc.
Edge4 is a fully functional interface engine offering small footprint implementation which is key to making it easily embeddable. Edge4 has all the integration features required by "Best of Breed" application suppliers:
- feature-rich, high throughput interface engine
- small footprint, rapidly deployed, easily embedded
- native scripting/automation tools for "non-invasive" integration to closed, legacy systems
- flexible data format support including HL7 2.x 3.x; FTP; email; TCP/IP; and many others
- includes a datamapper, rules-based engine; adapter library and adapter SDK
"Any 'Best of Breed' software supplier in healthcare will tell you that the weakest link in their solution is its ability to integrate into the customer environment," stated Kevin O'Brien, BridgeForward's senior vice president. "HL7 certainly helps but it is often not enough. As a result, most software suppliers have to develop their own integration tools and one-off integration routines or rely on their customer's interface engine - if available. The lack of control, documentation and standardization is a major source of delay, cost and support headaches. Edge4 solves that problem."
Edge4 is an easily embedded, private labeled integration layer that allows for fast and easy application integration to virtually any other application(s). Edge4 provides application suppliers with a standardized and easily supportable integration platform for every install. Based on an open architecture design, Edge4 can also connect to any other interface engine installed at a customer site.
Edge4 allows software suppliers to focus on what they do best while at the same time taking advantage of the low-cost, standardization characteristics of the most installed interface engine technology in healthcare.
"With required connectivity to upwards of 30,000 doctor's offices, Quest Diagnostics, our parent company, needed bullet-proof integration solutions to connect to hundreds of systems - many of which are closed or proprietary. We needed a standardized integration solution that could address our needs of today, and tomorrow. We chose Edge4. It met our three principal requirements: robustness; ease of use; and cost. Within a week of signing up, our field staff was installing standardized interfaces." - Phil Present, COO, MedPlus, a Quest Diagnostics Company
Edge4 is immediately available and is particularly appropriate for software suppliers who are in the process of developing new versions or upgrades to their "Best of Breed" applications.
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About BridgeForward Software
Founded by the same team that created MicroScript Corporation, BridgeForward brings together the EAI pioneers who developed two of the most popular application integration products in healthcare: MicroScript Server and the award-winning e-Biz2000. Together these two products became the most installed integration technology in US and UK healthcare.
BridgeForward reacquired the e-Biz 2000 technology from Sybase, Inc. and has added significant new features and functionality. ClearSpan Server and the embeddable, private label version, Edge4 share the same code base as e-Biz2000. ClearSpan Server and Edge4 each provide a suite of easy-to-use, right-sized and right priced tools for the rapid integration of legacy and Web-based applications as well as data migration.