Corepoint

• I truly believe if we had to choose an interface engine again, Corepoint would be my choice.
• Of the three or four interface engines I’ve used in recent years, Corepoint is the only one I care to use. In fact it would be a serious consideration if I were to change jobs to another hospital system.
• Pros: simple, fast, robust. Cons: cost. Never regretted this purchase.

Cloverleaf

• The Infor Cloverleaf interface engine has improved significantly over the years. Upgrading is fairly easy. New versions have more bugs than I expect, but the vendor works to overcome them with patches. As much as I like this interface engine, I would not recommend it to prospective customers considering add-ons, and annual support pricing keeps jumping each year.
• A well-designed engine that can handle a large volume of real time message processing.
• There isn’t a better engine out there. But the cost is probably keeping many from choosing it.

Rhapsody

• Pro — It’s flexible. Con — It is cumbersome to use for development and testing; buggy; support is bad.
• Rhapsody is a top 3 player in the market space. it should be included in any RFP and measured against CorePoint, Cloverleaf, and a few others.

Mirth

• They need to look at expanding.
• Simple and intuitive to learn and use. It has the feature set that meets our needs.

Ensemble

• Looking at the market today we would still pick this product.
• Pros: Relatively easy to scale up, reliable, stable, and has excellent support.
  Cons: User interface could be easier to navigate and needs some fine tuning in it’s functionality related to monitoring, building mapping tables, transfer of interfaces from development to production, and the ability to troubleshoot programming code logic. I felt the higher level functioning got more attention in their development of the engine, while the lower level user interface got less attention. They seem to be slowly catching up in subsequent versions. Personally I would have gone with the Corepoint or Cloverleaf. The cost may have been higher, but I understand the development interfacing is easier to use and has fuller functionality.
• Would definitely buy again.