InterSystems READY 2025: Wednesday Keynotes

Author: Nathan Elliott, Director, Professional Services, J2 Interactive The Wednesday Keynote Session featured presentations on various aspects of innovation, technology adoption, and the future of healthcare. READY Games Winners Most Creative Use of AI: ELAHealth was recognized for its innovative application of AI in explaining the complexities of health insurance. Best Use of Copilot […]
InterSystems READY 2025: Deploying Solutions Using InterSystems Package Manager and OCI Artifacts
Author: Andrew Smith, Vice President, Technology, J2 Interactive There are many models of software delivery in the modern workplace, but one of the simplest for the technically savvy is the use of a package manager. Package managers are designed to eliminate the need for manual installation of data; once you have a system connected to […]
InterSystems READY 2025: Operationalizing Cyber Security

Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Ken Mortensen, InterSystems Data Protection Officer, outlined the initiative to operationalize cybersecurity and the privacy council, with Paul Bruce, InterSystems Senior Manager – Cloud Security Operations, focusing on security program development across cloud, product, and incident response. Mortensen and Bruce emphasized a shift towards practical implementation guided by […]
InterSystems READY 2025: InterSystems Cloud Core Architecture

Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Rick Guidice and Jorge Martinez-Alba, InterSystems Cloud Engineers, presented an overview of InterSystems Cloud Core Architecture (ICCA), a cloud-native platform for managing cloud services using containerization with IKO and Kubernetes. The architecture includes a user portal, API gateways, external connection support, data import capabilities, and a management plane […]
InterSystems READY 2025: Source Controlling Interoperability

Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Pravin Barton, InterSystems Principal Application Developer, presented a demo on production decomposition, a new method that utilizes individual PTD files for each production item to improve source control and collaboration by avoiding bottlenecks associated with a single large class representation. The demonstration covered switching to the decomposed format […]
InterSystems READY 2025: Making SQL Aggregates up to 35% Faster
Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Elie Eshoa, InterSystems Systems Developer, outlined a project to optimize the aggregation of group by queries by improving parallel processing for average, minimum, and maximum operations. The old sequential parent process bottleneck is addressed by a new approach, where worker processes directly write results in parallel to a […]