NextGate’s roots are in providing technical services to our customers as that was our core business when the company was founded 7 years ago.  We’ve since added our MatchMetrix line of EMPI and registry products but still continue to provide outstanding service to customers with their EAI and EMPI implementations, whether they are using our MatchMetrix products or the Sun/SeeBeyond products we have years of experience with.

Thus it is very satisfying when we get a testimonial from a customer that speaks highly of the services we provide and our staff providing the services.  We recently received such a testimonial from The Hospital of Central Connecticut and it is on our testimonials page but also below.

During a recent overnight upgrade to our integration infrastructure, our team ran into an issue. The issue did not fall under NextGate’s support, however, despite that and the late hour, NextGate went above and beyond to help us resolve the issue and provide a quick workaround. This is the type of partnership that we truly appreciate and plan to continue in the future. Thank you again for providing us great service, because without it, the upgrade would not have been as successful as it was.

Hyatt Hollman
Service Delivery Manager
The Hospital of Central Connecticut

Thanks go out to all our customers for giving us the opportunity to serve them.

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.

At our recent webinars on options for Sun/SeeBeyond integration customers, Gevik delivered a great presentation summarizing the options and pros/cons of each.  In response to popular demand, we’ve made the presentation available on our new resources page on the NextGate web-site.  Now if you attended the webinar and want a refresher on the options, or if you missed it and would still like to see the presentation, you can do so.

You will see a few other items on the resources page including links to some of our datasheets and a summary of our social networking resources.  We will be adding much more here so come back and visit often, or watch this blog.

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!