We held the first webinar in our fall webinar series last week providing a deep dive into Monk2J including a demonstration. We’ve had requests for the presentation and it is now available here.

The webinar series continues next week on 11/4 at 10am PT with a discussion of the benefits of integrated registries in a Health Information Exchange. Register now to reserve your seat for what will be a great event.

We’ve added another webinar, this one with our partner Wise Men on 11/17 at 1pm PT, on simplifying the migration of Monk integration components and other SeeBeyond, ICAN, and Java CAPS related migration issues. Join us to learn how NextGate and Wise Men can help you.

As a thank you to those that attend our webinars, we will be randomly selecting one attendee from all of our remaining webinars this year to win an iPod.  The more webinars you attend, the better your chances of winning, so attend as many as you can.

The full list of webinars the rest of the year is listed on our webinars page and you’ll also see links to download presentations from prior webinars there too.

Last, we want to continue to share our insights and solutions with you as we begin 2011 and are presently planning our webinar schedule for the first quarter.  If there are topics or subjects you’d like to see us address, please contact us at webinars@nextgate.com.

We look forward to hearing from you and meeting you on a future webinar.

We’ve schedule four new webinars to be delivered over the next couple of months on a variety of subjects our customers have been asking us about.

First, we had such a great response to our Sun Java CAPS Integration Options webinar that we’ve scheduled a deeper dive on one of the options, converting eGate and SRE Monk code to Java using Monk2J.  In this webinar on October 21, Gevik will show in detail how Monk2J can convert your Monk code automatically saving more than 50% on the time and effort to move to a new integration platform.

Second, Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are increasingly becoming topics of conversation and many organizations are looking to implement or participate in them.  On November 4, Les will discuss HIE architecture and the role each type of index or registry, from EMPI and Provider to Location and Terminology.

Third and fourth, the NextGate team have performed 100s of integration and EMPI implementations and developed a wealth of experience from them that we’d like to share.  On November 18, Samy will discuss Java CAPS etiquette, the tips, tricks, and suggestions for a good implementation, and on December 2, Dan will do the same for EMPIs.

To join us, visit our webinars page to see the schedule and register.  We look forward to it.

We’ve been busy making updates to our collateral and web-site for some of the recently released products so here is a guide for where to find what is new.

With the release of MatchMetrix 7, we now have new datasheets for the MatchMetrix MDM Platform and MatchMetrix EMPI Suite.  Both are available on our Resources page as well as the respective product pages.  Besides having new content for the release, we hope you like the new look we’ve given our datasheets.

On the web-site, we gave it a minor facelift with some new imagery (look closely and you might see similarity to the datasheets!), but more importantly we now have updated product pages for all the MatchMetrix platforms and suites.

Take a look and let us know what you think.

In an effort to better connect with our customers and prospects, Sun/SeeBeyond users, and the EMPI/Data Management community as a whole, we are expanding our use of social media beyond this blog.  Specifically, you can follow/interact with us in new ways including:

• Twitter – You can follow @NextGateEMPI or visit http://twitter.com/NextGateEMPI to stay abreast of new information from us and pointers to news and articles related to EMPI and more.
• Facebook – Become a fan of NextGate at http://facebook.com/NextGate and interact with us, see what is new, or participate in discussions and polls.
• Got Monk Newsgroup – If you have an investment in Monk and are interested in how you might convert to Java, visit gotmonk.com and join the gotmonk Yahoo group.

You may have noticed that this blog itself has gotten a bit more active and that will continue.  Point your RSS reader here to get see the new entries as they are written.

Your comments and feedback are welcome so pick your favorite channel and let us here from you.  Oh, we respond to old fashioned e-mail too: info@nextgate.com

A key topic of the webinars we recently held on options for Sun integration customers is how do deal with investments that have been made in Monk, the specialized programming language STC/SeeBeyond developed as part of the e*Gate Integrator product.  This language was not carried forward in the ICAN J2EE or Java CAPS product line, and so customers wanting to migrate to the newer products were forced into rewriting the collaborations and transformations from Monk to something else.  Until now!

NextGate has developed and launched Monk2J, a conversion program that converts Monk code into Java code, enabling clients to reuse the translation logic without having to perform a rewrite.  Better yet, the Java code is not specific to any particular middleware platform or application server meaning it can be used in the container or server of the clients choice.

Interested in learning more?  Visit the gotmonk.com where you can learn more, see examples, and contact us to give it a try.  Or join the gotmonk Yahoo group.  Or feel free to contact us directly at info@nextgate.com.

We held a webinar today covering what options customers of DataGate, eGate, ICAN, SRE, TRE, and Java CAPS have for their integration strategy going forward and how NextGate can help.  In particular, we addressed how investments in Monk can be leveraged and converted resulting in a 50% cost savings over a complete rewrite of those artifacts.  We had a fantastic turnout and many attendees asked great questions we were happy to answer.

If you missed the webinar today, you are in luck as we have a second one scheduled for next Wednesday June 30th at 8:00 am PDT.  Click here to learn more and register.  If you did attend but still have questions, feel free to contact us at info@nextgate.com.

Since our last blog we have made significant progress towards our newest product: a cost effective and pragmatic interface engine that contains one of the world’s strongest parsing technologies!  Yes, that’s right.  We have developed the NextGate Integration Platform, a powerful, flexible and affordable interface engine combined with full featured parsing technology reminiscent of the capabilities of Monk. Needless to say, the customers and partners we have spoken with recently are ecstatic about what we have available and what is planned on our roadmap.

A) On the Parsing technology — We are code complete and have a full, industry grade, generic message parsing technology in Java which lends itself to faster and optimized (some may call it compact) coding in Java. Those of you who know Monk remember all the cool features such as Node-to-Node copy, data-map, indexed-based-leaf-data-access, and the like. Well, those are now available to you, today, in Java. As a major added benefit, the parser facilitates conversion efforts for STC/SeeBeyond eGate/SRE customers.  The parser enables:

1) Monk Message Structure (SSC/ETD) conversion to Java Classes (100% ready and available)

2) Monk Code (TSC/Monk) conversion to Java Classes (75% of Tier 1 Monk functions converted, including “iq-put”, “iq-get” and “event-send”).

B) On the Interface Engine — We have decided to use JBoss ESB as a base, pragmatic platform for all the value-added features an organization would need in order to have an efficient and affordable interface engine. So, we’ve taken JBoss ESB, added our parsing technology, added HL7 adaptors, and added our Tracking and Monitoring technology for useful, actionable, and user-friendly alerting and troubleshooting procedures.  The system will be ready to roll out in a few short months.

We will be scheduling a webinar soon. Stay tuned for updates and details on the webinar and other product news.

On another note, I must say that I’m a bit miffed at why Apple and Adobe, two companies I deeply respect, are going head to head on Flash. You may have read recently that Steve Jobs claims Flash is more closed than the iPhone and Apple technologies. I love my iPhone and I love Flash and I don’t know how to react. I think these smart people will eventually put their not-so-different differences aside and do what’s good for the users of both technologies.

Happy coding!