The breakthroughs we help our clients make With the goal of mapping all the stars in the Milky Way, the European Space Agency had an astronomically big data challenge. Inside you’ll read success stories about innovative enterprises that are making breakthroughs with our advanced software technologies.

Creative technology partner with a passion for excellence and client success InterSystems Corporation is a software products company with offices in 25 countries and corporate headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our advanced technologies for data management, connectivity, and analytics enable IT breakthroughs in industries that require the highest software performance and reliability. What sets us apart is that everyone in our company is dedicated to making clients successful. As a privately held business since 1978, our focus on client success has never been distracted by quarterly profit...

European Space Agency, Spain The European Space Agency is mapping a billion stars in the Milky Way In 2013, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. Because an enormous amount of data had to be quickly stored and analyzed, ESA selected Caché as the advanced database technology to support the scientific processing of the Gaia mission. The Gaia satellite will spend five years monitoring a billion stars in our galaxy. It will collect data on each of them about 70 times, precisely measuring their positions, distances, movements,...

National Health Laboratory Service, South Africa South Africa’s largest pathology organization supports 4,400 clinics and hospitals in the fight against HIV/AIDS The National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) of South Africa has successfully completed the first of two phases of deployment for TrakCare Lab. The consolidated laboratory service is a key part of the government’s program to improve the management of pandemic and chronic illnesses, including drug-resistant tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and overall healthcare service delivery. The NHLS handles all public health sector “We undertook an extensive,...

Companhia Brasileira de Petróleo Ipiranga SA, Brazil Ipiranga cuts integration costs by 50% In order to adapt to norms defined by Brazil’s State Secretaries of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service, the Brazilian petroleum company Ipiranga opted for a commercial NF-e application that needed to be integrated with their existing software systems. That decision created another big challenge: managing the complexity involved in integrating the NF-e solution with ABADI (Automation of Ipiranga’s Bases and Deposits), the company’s billing system. Ipiranga solved this issue by using Ensemble. According...

National Health Service, Scotland Scotland creates nationwide electronic patient records InterSystems is playing an important role as Scotland’s National Health Service (NHS) implements their eHealth Program — a bold vision for connected healthcare throughout the country. The NHS Scotland Patient Management System program for hospitals gives authorized users immediate access to better clinical and administration information from one standard healthcare information system. The program is using TrakCare to replace aging disparate systems with one unified, Internet-based healthcare information system...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Defense, United States United States military healthcare systems serve 5.4 million active personnel and veterans annually The Department of Defense Military Health System (MHS) bases its primary health information system, as well as a similar system used in combat deployments, on Caché. When they upgraded from their legacy database system to Caché, the MHS experienced a dramatic increase in performance and scalability, reduced hardware requirements, and a more open environment for greater interoperability. The Department of Veterans...

Belgian Federal Police, Belgium Belgium coordinates police force of 40,000 When new laws resulted in sweeping reforms of Belgium’s police forces, the federal police were tasked with creating a single computing hardware and software architecture that they, and agents in all 195 of Belgium’s local police zones, would share. For the core data management and application infrastructure, the federal police chose Caché. “Caché was chosen “As a result of a European open public tender procedure, because it provided the Caché was chosen because it provided the best combination best combination of of quality,...

SPAR Austria/ASPIAG, Austria Retailer in Austria controls inventories in 2,000 outlets Salzburg-based SPAR Austria, a member of SPAR, the world’s largest food retailer consortium, is a €4 billion company with over 1,300 outlets within Austria. They wanted an end-to-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) and point-of-sale (POS) system to help managers of local stores control their inventories. After carefully researching their options, SPAR Austria decided to implement IMAge (Integrated Management Application for Grocery Enterprises), a solution based on Caché. IMAge was originally developed by...

Partners HealthCare System Inc., United States Strategic interoperability at Partners HealthCare Based in Boston, Partners HealthCare is one of the largest integrated healthcare networks in the United States. Founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, the Partners system includes community and specialty hospitals, a managed care organization, a physician network, home care and other health-related entities. Partners HealthCare is also a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a national leader in biomedical research. Partners HealthCare wanted...

Medipal Holdings Co. Ltd., Japan Logistics system for largest wholesale company in Japan tracks 90,000 items In 2005, Japan’s largest commodity wholesale company, Paltac, merged with medicine wholesale company Medico Group to form Medipal Holdings Co. Ltd. The resulting enterprise is the largest wholesale company in Japan, with revenues topping ¥2.54 trillion ($25 billion). The merger created an opportunity to revamp all of Medipal’s computer systems and make them more efficient by leveraging the advanced technology and knowhow already in place within Paltac KS, a longtime InterSystems customer....