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InterSystems IRIS

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What is InterSystems IRIS?

InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform that includes a multi-model transactional data management engine, an application development platform, and interoperability engine, and an open analytics platform.It is is the next generation of InterSystems' data management software. It…

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InterSystems IRIS Review

9 out of 10
March 14, 2024
I work most with InterSystems IRIS Interoperability. My job involves connecting the systems of branch stores with the headquarters. The …
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IRIS Review

6 out of 10
March 05, 2024
InterSystems IRIS is used to support the medical industry, everything from medical history to paying information is stored using IRIS …
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TrustRadius Insights

InterSystems IRIS has been praised by users for its ease of use and suitability for D programmers. It has proven to be a valuable tool for …
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Fast and reliable

9 out of 10
November 03, 2022
With the help of InterSystems IRIS, users can use the TrakCare data to build applications. This tool is useful for application development …
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IRIS & TRAKCARE

9 out of 10
September 15, 2022
Leverage TrakCare data and increase application development speed and capabilities with InterSystems IRIS for Health. Helps in managing …
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  • Change management (43)
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  • User management (44)
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InterSystems IRIS for Health FHIR Contest Kick-Off Webinar

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InterSystems IRIS: Kafka, Schema Normalization and Service Enablement

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Product Details

What is InterSystems IRIS?

InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform that includes a multi-model transactional data management engine, an application development platform, and interoperability engine, and an open analytics platform.

It is is the next generation of InterSystems' data management software. It includes the capabilities of InterSystems Cache and Ensemble, plus new capabilities that aim to to make it easy to build and deploy cloud based, analytics-intensive enterprise applications with greater performance and scalability.

InterSystems IRIS provides a set of APIs to operate with transactional persistent data simultaneously: key-value, relational, object, document, multidimensional.


Data can be managed by SQL, Java, node.js, .NET, C++, Python, and native server-side ObjectScript language.


InterSystems IRIS includes an Interoperability engine and modules to build AI solutions. InterSystems IRIS provides features for horizontal scalability (sharding, ECP) and provides High Availability features, Business intelligence, transaction support, and backup.

InterSystems IRIS Features

Database Development Features

  • Supported: Version control tools
  • Supported: Test data generation
  • Supported: Performance optimization tools
  • Supported: Schema maintenance
  • Supported: Database change management

Database Administration Features

  • Supported: User management
  • Supported: Database security
  • Supported: Database status reporting
  • Supported: Change management

InterSystems IRIS Integrations

InterSystems IRIS Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac, Docker
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesAfrica, Asia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Mexico, Middle East, Germany, India, Japan, Europe, South America, UK, USA
Supported LanguagesCzech, German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian

Frequently Asked Questions

Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, and MarkLogic Server are common alternatives for InterSystems IRIS.

Reviewers rate Test data generation highest, with a score of 7.7.

The most common users of InterSystems IRIS are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Community Insights

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InterSystems IRIS has been praised by users for its ease of use and suitability for D programmers. It has proven to be a valuable tool for building high-performance systems and leveraging machine learning capabilities. Migrating from Caché to IRIS has allowed users to create more fluid screens and integrate open technologies seamlessly.

In the healthcare sector, InterSystems IRIS serves as a communication hub and lab monitoring system in diagnostics laboratories, facilitating efficient data exchange and analysis. It is also utilized as a comprehensive solution for managing patient flows and financial processes within hospital facilities, streamlining operations and improving overall efficiency. Moreover, InterSystems IRIS helps solve interoperability issues, enabling the development of a more digital healthcare system.

Users have appreciated the compatibility of InterSystems IRIS with new technologies such as SAAS on AWS and Docker, which expands its versatility and usability. The platform's stability and ease of use have been commended, making it an ideal choice for organizations seeking efficient data collection, integration, management, and analysis.

InterSystems IRIS has found application in various industries beyond healthcare, such as vendor and customer management, order processing, fulfillment, and e-commerce support. It assists in migrating legacy code, creating APIs to facilitate communication between systems, and developing solutions for interoperability challenges within organizations.

In summary, InterSystems IRIS provides a comprehensive platform that caters to diverse industries' needs by offering advanced functionalities in data management, integration with new technologies, solving interoperability issues, and optimizing workflows. Users have found value in its ability to streamline operations efficiently while providing stability and ease of use.

Users have provided valuable recommendations for the system. According to their feedback, they highly praise the world-leading support from Intersystems. It is recommended to thoroughly assess and verify specific needs before choosing a platform version and tailor the solution for deployment accordingly. Considering migration from COS to the system is suggested as an important work package. These recommendations provide insights into the system's strengths and considerations for its implementation.

Additionally, users recommend the system for fast storage of data. They think it offers simplicity and a strong consulting partnership. The system is also a good choice for handling Big Data and data-driven development.

In summary, the system stands out for its exceptional support, flexibility, scalability, and performance in dealing with large volumes of data.

Attribute Ratings

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I work most with InterSystems IRIS Interoperability. My job involves connecting the systems of branch stores with the headquarters. The biggest challenge is transforming a wide variety of data so that the receiving end can understand the message. It also involves data synchronization such as prices, which are used in all branches, mainly using service scheduling.
  • Ease of component reuse in interoperability
  • Even with a great database manager, it allows connecting to other data sources
  • The possibility of building an entire system within Object Script, from backend to frontend
  • Enhanced documentation, more comprehensive and user-friendly documentation, including detailed tutorials and examples
  • Improving compatibility and integrations with others programming languages
  • Introducing tools and techniques to optimize the performance of ObjectScript applications, such as profiling tools, performance monitoring utilities, and code optimization guidelines
  • A better compatibility with Python libraries
As I deal with interoperability 99% of the time in my work, and I really enjoy the functionality of the tool, I would easily recommend this tool to large businesses that have many branches and need a tool to integrate and monitor all of them. Besides liking the fact that I don't need to manually establish a database connection, which makes development much easier.
March 05, 2024

IRIS Review

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
InterSystems IRIS is used to support the medical industry, everything from medical history to paying information is stored using IRIS database, this makes it easy to access and update the information
  • Unified Data Management: IRIS seamlessly integrates disparate data sources.
  • High-Performance Analytics
  • Interoperability and Scalability
  • Easier learning curve
IRIS is usefull in larger systems, it would not be so reasonable to apply it in smaller scale services
January 02, 2024

Intersystems in health

Pierre LAFAY | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Intersystems Iris to develop backend of The "Banque Nationale Alzheimer" a health data warehouse.The frontend is build with Angular and connect to the backend with a REST api. The application collects data from all medical consultations concerning Alzheimer or other degenerative brain diseases on French territory.
  • REST Api
  • Security
  • Users administration
  • On-board documentation
  • syntactic compatibility with other languages (for loop, tests)
  • The structure of the documentation is not obvious
Iris is the solution to make professional developments particularly in the health sector.
Many professional tools are available and simplify use (HL7, FHIR).
The support provided by Intersystems is of a very high level with great involvement of stakeholders.
Productivity is therefore greatly increased compared to competing solutions.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use InterSystems IRIS to help multiple entities communicate with each other. To exchange data and manage training registrations.All these exchanges concern standards used in all areas (ISO, etc...)Exchanges are done by files (sftp...) but above all by REST API.We use InterSystems IRIS because DB storage is really simple. We have the ability to simply transport a message from one point to another or to transform it before distributing it.
  • Storage in DB
  • Transfer and transform messages, flows
  • Graphic part for BP
  • Python development
  • Development but Python is natve in the new version
  • Visual Code extension to help developer (linter, formatter...)
  • ORM fonctionnalities
InterSystems IRIS is really good for transporting messages and flows.
Object script is a simple object language. You don't need a lot of experience to get started.
InterSystems IRIS is not designed to create entire back/front applications but that is not its purpose. However, it can be integrated via API calls.
September 26, 2023

InterSystems IRIS Review

Prasanth Annamreddy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I am using InterSystems IRIS in my daily BAU to implement the healthcare interfaces, deployment, and maintenance. I have been using the IRIS components adapters like TCP, File, SFTP, HTTP/HTTPS, SOAP, etc. And working on different types of messaging and transformation using DTLs and objectscript classes.
  • Utility classes
  • Library functions
  • Documentation and community
  • RTF base64 transformation
  • FHIR
  • The mandate features are not available in the older versions of the product and it is difficult to upgrade the product every version release for all hence latest features can't be available for all within our organization.
InterSystems IRIS is easy to learn and move on from other technologies as well. It has good documentation and support for any issues.
Victoria Castillo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use InterSystems Iris and HealthConnect as our intergration engine between our EMR & our vendor systems. It allows us to take in millions of HL7 messages, translate those messages according to the needs of our company & vendors and send them on to their destinations within seconds. It also works for HL7v3, X12, and API (FHIR/Json) data.
  • It is very intuitive--navigation and understanding of the tool comes quickly
  • It is very flexible so you can easily customize it to operate in such a way that it fulfills your needs.
  • It is constantly expanding it's out of the box capabilities to provide more ease & access to different utilities.
  • The base code is in ObjectScript which can be quite the learning curve for individuals just starting out with the product.
  • The documentation is not always clear about how or what classes and built in functions are available for use.
Intersystems IRIS is a really great tool for Interoperability. It has so many capabilities out of the box and then such a great developer community on top of that, that there are really no limits to what you can do in terms of data manipulation and translation. Personally I find it to be a great tool if you are looking for Interoperability software.
July 14, 2023

simple review

Andre Dienes Friedrich | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
it is an excellent tool, it helps us with everything we need, the integrations with our client are very transparent and reliable. With the support of InterSystems, today we can integrate and connect our client to different sources, we connect it with services, applications, among others, we use IRIS as a control bus, which brings us all the confidence and security in the data we travel.
  • object-oriented database
  • data bus
  • data security and integrity
  • Multilingual community in one place
  • better console integration
  • more programming language
Based on today's use structure, IRIS brings us confidence in everything we do, in our client, we manage to generate great savings for him thanks to the integration possibilities of IRIS, a simple example is that we connect our client to a service where he manages to manage an entire data structure and customers with just one subscription, thanks to the calling and webhooks features in our services.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use InterSystems IRIS to provide quick and easy solutions to integrate with other partners/systems. Thanks to the prebuilt universal connectors at your disposal it's easy and quick start communicating with differents systems without having to worry about what database is being used at the other side. Not only that, if you need to create your own solution you can create new coded classes to achieve your goal.
  • Lots of connectors for different standards: SOAP, REST, HL7, etc.
  • Performance, stability and reliability.
  • Possibility to code your own solutions.
  • Support for the product and community.
  • Improved business process visual editor.
  • Improved data transform editor.
Best option if you have to handle thousands of messages between different systems with differents databases, especially if you have to work with standards like SOAP, REST, HL7, etc. This product is capable of managing all your integration needs.

Maybe not suitable for small enterprises that don't have to exchange live information with other partners.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use InterSystems IRIS in my job to make a middleware to connect databases with APIs.

The scope of my use case are limited because im new at InterSystems but the use in my organization are big
and every day is more bigger.

I like the opportunity of learning this and i think in the future i could do best devolps with InterSystems IRIS
  • Simple APIs with RestForm2
  • Easier way to log the information
  • Good learning platform
  • Good community
  • More Spanish articles
It's well suited to do faster APIs but is difficult when you use InterSystems IRIS for the first time.
Mohamed Benmansour | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
InterSystems IRIS is a comprehensive platform for developing and deploying web applications with real-time data synchronization across multiple devices. It is also highly scalable with the ability to cache applications for better performance. The platform is capable of translating the structure of an application into a database structure, thus helping to significantly reduce development costs.
  • The quickest way to develop and deploy intelligent applications for enterprise use.
  • This database allows us to track usage trends and identify potential bottlenecks or errors in the system.
  • It provides comprehensive clinical data management capabilities to meet contemporary healthcare requirements.
  • InterSystems IRIS can improve professional training, support and development services.
  • The current documentation is limited on how to use the platform.
  • An outdated-looking presentation.
InterSystems IRIS has obviously increased the speed of development and reduced the risk of mistakes when accessing patient data.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use IRIS for Enterprise service bus purposes and for creating custom application in Healthcare
  • Total overview over your message flow
  • Comprehensive way for developing connections between different systems
  • Using industry standards
  • Build better functionality for Version Control
  • Provide tools for developing front end for applications
IRIS is very well suited for developing applications that have a message workflow and different connection to different systems
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We implement healthcare integration at NHS trusts across the UK providing solutions both within the IRIS program and inc conjunction with it. The majority of work ensures data integrity and interoperability across different systems within the trusts, but more intricate solutions can be implemented depending on the trusts requests. Such solutions include custom business components and code in the TIE and database management with a database outside of IRIS.
  • It is Scalable.
  • It is Lightweight.
  • It is easy to maintain.
  • It has excellent access for developers.
  • Presentation, the interface looks outdated.
  • Accessibility to non-developers.
It is an excellent platform if there are many interfaces that need implmentation such as in large hospitals, as it provides a clear way of viewing an managing all said interfaces.

However on a smaller scale the price is too much and consideration of a scalable price model may aid int IRIS's adoption at smaller businesses.
November 03, 2022

Fast and reliable

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
With the help of InterSystems IRIS, users can use the TrakCare data to build applications. This tool is useful for application development and better manages the health data.I was looking for a database change management solution and this worked well. I was able to track changes in multiple environments and view it in a single pannel. The documentation was pretty useful and I was able to get started with it pretty quickly.
  • For supporting employees, the code table notion is a very nice idea.
  • The implementation of several data streams is quick and efficient thanks to the ability to receive, convert, and route data from many sources into a single standard.
  • Our biggest challenge is constantly educating new chief architects or executives about the significance of the InterSystems platform in our environment.
Has increased the speed of development and has reduced the risk of mistakes as we are able to go back and refer to the changes that have been made to the data in the database.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use InterSystems IRIS to work with NHS Trusts to solve their interoperability issues and help develop a more Digital Healthcare system in the UK. I have used multiple InterSystems products to solve customers' interoperability issues/needs, and all do a fantastic job. The technology is incredibly fast, robust, scalable, and intuitive to use.
  • The database, integration engine, and Load balancer are all in one place. This is advantageous because there are no hidden costs and it is also far easier to set up the network configuration.
  • The sales engineers are very willing to help in any situation and they are also incredibly knowledgeable about the product. They often offer more than one solution to your problem, as well as providing the pros & cons of such solutions.
  • Extremely fast & reliable compared to other integration engines. The intuitive nature of the GUI also allows you to easily locate errors, resend messages, and just get a general understanding of what is going on.
  • The documentation can be excellent for some things but then is non-existent for explaining other things. There should be more consistency in the level of the documentation on offer.
  • Not all the methods for classes work, in particular, I have found half the methods for EnsLib.Rest.Service does not work, and doesn't provide any examples of how to use them (e.g. ReportHTTPStatusCode()).
InterSystems IRIS is well suited to solve any interoperability issues for any kind of business. I have used multiple InterSystems products to solve customers' interoperability issues/needs, and all do a fantastic job. The technology is incredibly fast, robust, scalable, and intuitive to use. The InterSystems staff that I have dealt with have been incredibly helpful in providing solutions to the problems that I have encountered. If you are looking for an Intuitive, Reliable, Interoperable, and Scalable solution to your Integration needs, then look no further than InterSystems IRIS.
September 15, 2022

IRIS & TRAKCARE

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Leverage TrakCare data and increase application development speed and capabilities with InterSystems IRIS for Health. Helps in managing health data has an extensible FHIR repository and a complete set of REST APIs that provide the foundation for developing healthcare applications. It also allows the creation of various data formats without problems, with vertical and horizontal scalability.
  • SQL and NoSQL database management
  • data and application integration
  • unstructured data analytics capabilities
  • usability
  • intuitiveness
  • graphic
InterSystems IRIS is well suited in healthcare scenarios, helps build a solid base data. IRIS gives access to Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence tools. You can integrate best-of-breed, standards-based analytics technologies for exploration, data analysis and forecasting. Mobile eHealth applications can be developed to integrate new medical device offerings using InterSystems' comprehensive IRIS for Health platform.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Helps us to keep the transition simple from our existing InterSystems Cache based databases.

Definitely has better performance in some of the areas as well as has adjusted a lot with the changing needs of the current industry.

Have best scalability and security performance
  • Database change management
  • Versions control pannel
  • The UX in the administration portal could be much better.
Audit log for each and every action is a very good thing.

Overall it cover all hospitals logs

Nothing there to dislike


Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We using InterSystems IRIS as a full solution for our hospital facility to manage entire patient flows and financial flows as well. Technology- and solution-wise it's one super solution. I am previously working with multiple other HIS systems and I found a lot of new things in this HIS solution and users also a lot of new features also available. It's a really good solution.
  • Clinical part
  • RCM part they will done all most all the DHA and insurance integrations.
  • PAS part included the easiest methods for booking appointments and patient management is very easy.
  • Audit log for each and every action is a very good thing.
  • Code table concept is a very good idea for supporting staffs.
  • UI Part little bit improvement required, but that is not a big issue.
  • Once done the future booking for appointment we cannot reschedule the appointment up to today is lesser than that booking date.
  • g.: Today (29/07/2022) I am booking for an appointment on 01/08/2022, I want that appointment to need to reschedule to 31/07/2022, this is not possible.
  • If possible to reschedule the appointment up to the current date is a better option.
  • Patient Bill is cancelled then multiple records are getting created, this will be make confusion for users.
  • For IT staffs if you can provide the database related training it will be more helpful for manage the Realtime requirements.
Technology-wise this is one of the best solutions. Overall this will cover all the needs of hospitals. Clinical part is very strong and easy to manage. Once they start to use they can reduce the time consuming to do the insurance submission-related things. That I am found to be corrected is their design resolution aspects and it will need to be worked in any resolution.
Travis Baker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
InterSystems IRIS helps our organization quickly and efficiently develop solutions across our product suite. It is fully comprehensive allowing us to manage deployment, database configuration, connectivity, and routing of data throughout data lifecycle. The product roadmap is always growing to include features well suited for any company to store, organize, and analyze data.

Our company has used the database platform for decades and recently adopted their interoperability engine to enable multiple clients connect securely to our transactional routine engine in a myriad of formats (HL7v2, files, and custom data streams) allowing quick routing to the desired messaging server infrastructure (which transforms custom formats to our standard) and then sending transactions to the customer-specific database server for consumption. This allowed for easy adoption and support for our overall architecutre. As well as moving our company towards industry-standard techniques to promote easier onboarding of new employees within the integration, support, and development departments.
  • Receive, transform, and route data from multiple sources into a single standard makes implementing various data streams quick and efficient. Our company used this engine to not only receive data in and push data out, but also to identify when existing data changed to trigger events as needed to build interactive features into our product such as alerting and workflow rules as well as integration with third party vendors.
  • The data storage is easily configured and human readable through the definition of Cache classes. Our company built from scratch a comprehensive data model within days that was adopted for each new module within our application, all inheriting from a well-thought-out base class structure. Adjusting in future made it easy to write minimal amount of code to deploy changes across entire application.
  • Analyzing and reporting through multiple querying languages and a variety of connections is very fast. Our company also took advantage of the ability to build dynamic queries built solely off the interpretation of the underlying data models to process interface transactions with a standard, universal, approach that did not rely upon hand-crafting queries for each data model individually.
  • Our biggest hurdle is to continually inform new executives or chief architects about the role the InterSystems platform has in our environment. Most with no exposure immediately think they should change everything and move to something such as Microsoft SQL Server or other database platforms. Once we show them what InterSystems does for us and the exhaustive amount of features and functionality they usually get on board.
  • Onboarding new developers can be time consuming if they are new to InterSystems suite of products. But our experience is that adoption can be rolled out slowly within those areas that are industry standard (database configuration, reporting, etc.) as most of the content is standard and it is just some syntax and application hurdles to overcome.
InterSystems IRIS is particularly well suited for handling large-scale data integration projects. It allows companies to consolidate the software needed to connect, process, store, and analyze data using industry-standard data formats and tooling. The support and learning the company provides is best-of-breed. The only scenario where it would be less appropriate would be small-scale, minimal data storage, projects.

Our company is a large, healthcare-related, content management application that must process large amounts of real-time data transactions from the client's Electronic Medical Record (EMR), identify the Master Patient Index (MPI) to bring uniqueness to the patient data, and identify/alert customers with critical-to-mild processing issues - anywhere from data was rejected, to data was accepted but individual data elements need to be defined or adjusted before reporting can be deemed useful. This all has to be done within multiple transactions PER SECOND, and data has to be able to reported with minimal wait time for clients.





Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We create ERP software primarily for the millwork industry. We need a database that performs well whether our customer has five end-users or a thousand. InterSystems IRIS (and before it, Cache) scale well both in performance and cost. It provides everything you need to create your own applications, including plenty of options for interoperability with other systems and built-in business intelligence tools. It is a multimodel database in which the various models are always synchronized. Even using its own prepackaged IDE, you are free to develop in ObjectScript, Python, SQL, javascript, and Java. For object-oriented programmers like me, it's very easy to pick up and learn everything you need to know.
  • Intuitive
  • Reliable
  • Interoperable
  • Scalable
  • Flexible
  • Licensing
  • Documentation of certain features
  • Pricing
IRIS is well-suited to a wide range of applications, especially where database performance and scalability are a must. If you're in health care, this is definitely the product for you. There are versions of it with built-in support for a lot of healthcare industry standards. If you're only creating a very small application and aren't expecting it to grow, you're probably overshooting with IRIS, however even in those cases, there is a community edition that may be more appropriate.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I use InterSystems IRIS as a cloud-based database together with its multi-model transactional data management engine that allows me to interconnect systems with great ease, as well as flexible access to the different types of data that we deal with in the company. It also provides an application development platform, which I use with a VSCode implementation that seems wonderful to me. It has an interoperability engine that allows us, in a visual way, to carry out multiple processes within the application in a very visual and interactive way.
  • Low maintenance required
  • Good interconection with other systems
  • Database Gestion
  • Multi connection
An appropriate scenario based on our experience is that it allows communication with multiple health machines and has a centralized database, which allows managing all kinds of data structures and is simple to use. A less appropriate scenario has been the use of IRIS to bypass the intended sector.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use InterSystems IRIS to develop solutions to interoperability problems within hospital trusts. The solutions I develop allow for more efficient working systems within hospitals which leads to better patient care. The InterSystems engine contains a great many tools to enable me to fulfill this role and a huge amount of documentation to enable me to learn and use the systems effectively.
  • HL7 interoperability.
  • Documentation.
  • REST API integration.
  • Updates to ObjectScript compiler.
  • Some areas of documentation are missing/sparse.
It is well suited to taking hospital patient data and automatically routing it to demographic systems as well as the intended destination. It can perform a great many operations on the data automatically to suit the hospital's needs, and thus reduce labour costs for the hospital on an ongoing basis.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Using it with Visual Studio code for database integration for my client's project.
  • Integration over cloud
  • Value for money
  • Low maintenance required
  • Some issues with Java connection sometimes, which can be improved
  • Product has a few security vulnerabilities with Apache
  • Performance can also be improved a bit
I am using InterSystems IRIS for application integration and database integration with Visual Studio code for my client's project. It is well suited for the project where people are not experts, as it requires less maintenance and less coding skills.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The use of InterSystems IRIS within the company has contributed to the improvement in the information analysis, storage, organization and flow control processes through defined channels, providing fluidity in the use and management of information. In the commercial area, it has raised productivity to 100% while maintaining the reliability of the information through a solid, accurate, and reliable database. At the same time, cloud storage is optimal, providing security and protection of confidential data.
  • cloud storage, providing support and data security.
  • information analysis and autonomy in processes
  • high performance database management
  • simplify your most demanding data-intensive applications.
  • makes it easier to build high-performance
  • creation and interface with users to access the system.
  • more defined information flow schemes.
  • increased security with cloud storage
1. It is well suited in the area of information analysis, database creation and information protection in the cloud, allowing the clearest and most efficient information to be obtained.

2. The storage security has to be improved and the interface with the end user the creation of the user is quite slow.
December 08, 2021

Gem for Data Management

Priya Kakkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I found InterSystems IRIS is one of the best [tools] for data management in an organization. Easy to use interface and provides high performance for managing data. You can easily execute database operations very quickly and reliably. It is easy to integrate with [another system] for providing [large-scale] deployment to the customers.
  • Database operation is really quick[.]
  • You can easily integrate it with other machine learning applications[.]
  • It supports all programming language hence it's a gem for all developers[.]
  • Interface can be improved a bit[.]
It is best suited in the scenario where a single interface is required for providing [a complete end-to-end] solution to the customers. You don't need [a] separate platform to write code or [perform] database operations. All you need is InterSystems IRIS software and you are done. You can also use analytics functionality which is one of the greatest [features] which many customers need for their solution[.]
December 08, 2021

Inter Systems IRIS Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Inter Systems IRIS is used in our organization to be able to create and provide a new database for our personal use and access. Since its a multi-model transactional data management engine, everything is very easy and accessible. The programming and the data input to the system [are] just a breeze when it comes to working with this platform.
  • Provides Backup and Recovery[.]
  • It has Multiple Programming Languages Supported[.]
  • The ability of Data Migration[.]
  • Permission restrictions
The database is massive and it allows for an [increasing inefficiency]. When assigned to a self-performance analytical engine, real-time [decision-making] is allowed. Plus the BI capabilities and creating APIs [are] as simple as can be! What I like most is the reliability it has to offer. The Software provides a great overall user experience.
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