InterSystems

InterSystems was founded in 1978 by Phillip T. (Terry) Ragon, its current CEO.[5] The firm was one of the original vendors of M-technology (aka MUMPS) systems, with a product called ISM.[6] Over the years, it acquired several other MUMPS implementations: DTM from Data Tree (1993); DSM from Digital (1995); and MSM from Micronetics (1998); making InterSystems the dominant M technology vendor.

The firm eventually started combining features from these products into one they called OpenM, then consolidated the technologies into a product, Caché, in 1997. At that time they stopped new development for all of their legacy M-based products (although the company stills supports existing customers). They launched Ensemble, an integration platform, in 2003[7] and HealthShare, a scalable health informatics platform, in 2006.[8] In 2007, InterSystems purchased TrakHealth, an Australian vendor of TrakCare, a modular healthcare information system based on InterSystems technology. In May 2011, the firm launched Globals as a free database based on the multi-dimensional array storage technology used in Caché.[9] In September 2011, InterSystems purchased Siemens Health Services (SHS) France from its parent company, Siemens.[10] In September 2017, InterSystems announced InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, which, the company said, combines database management capabilities together with interoperability and analytics, as well as technologies such as sharding for performance.[11]

The company's products include:[12]

• InterSystems IRIS Data Platform
• InterSystems Caché, a multi-model database
• InterSystems Ensemble, a rapid integration and development platform
• HealthShare, a health information exchange platform and product suite
• InterSystems TrakCare, a Web-based healthcare information system
• InterSystems TrakCare Lab Enterprise, a proprietary Laboratory Information Management System with business management capabilities

Visual Studio Code by Microsoft with InterSystems ObjectScript plugin.

The largest customer for InterSystems is Epic, a leading health records vendor. Like InterSystems, Epic is privately held. "Both are rooted in an older programming language called MUMPS, developed at Mass General Hospital in the 1960s. Their founders coded the first products, and turned down outside investors, preferring to maintain control," said Zina Moukheiber in a Forbes profile in 2013.[13] Other large customers include the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Partners HealthCare; Cleveland Clinic;[13] the National Health Services of England, Scotland and Wales;[6] the European Space Agency[14] and Credit Suisse.[6]

On August 14, 2008, the Boston Globe reported that InterSystems was filing a lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation, another tenant in its Cambridge, Mass., headquarters, seeking to prevent Microsoft from expanding in the building. InterSystems also filed a lawsuit against building owner Equity Office Partners, a subsidiary of the Blackstone Group, "contending that it conspired with Microsoft to lease space that InterSystems had rights to, and sought to drive up rents in the process".[15]

In 2010, CEO Terry Ragon led a coalition in Cambridge called Save Our Skyline to protest a city zoning change that would have allowed more signs on top of commercial buildings, partly in response to Microsoft's desire to put a sign on top of their shared building.[16]

Both disputes were eventually settled, and Microsoft and InterSystems agreed to both put low signs only in front of the building at street level.

• InterSystems website