Data Points

In this episode, we are joined by product manager Benjamin De Boe to talk about columnar storage in InterSystems IRIS. We discuss how this new feature within the SQL capabilities of InterSystems IRIS can optimize the performance of your analytical queries. To learn more about columnar storage in InterSystems IRIS, visit https://www.intersystems.com/columnar-storage. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, we are joined by George James—CEO of George James Software—to talk about source control, developer tools, and how George James Software's solutions are beneficial for InterSystems IRIS users. To learn more about George James Software, visit their website: https://georgejames.com. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, Thomas Dyar joins the podcast to talk about AI Link, one of the newest features in the InterSystems machine learning and AI umbrella, which helps to bridge the gap between data scientists and business users. Plus, we'll dive into the latest updates on IntegratedML and its cloud presence. To learn more about early access programs for InterSystems cloud technologies, see here: https://gs2022.isccloud.io/#early-access For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, Carmen Logue and Mary Ann Fusi join the podcast to talk about the latests features and customer stories around InterSystems IRIS Adaptive Analytics. We also discuss the concept of a smart data fabric and how these technologies help organizations build that architecture. To watch Carmen and Joe's presentation at the AtScale Semantic Layer Summit, see here: https://www.intersystems.com/resources/unlocking-the-power-of-your-data-using-a-data-fabric-architecture-with-a-universal-semantic-layer/ To learn more about early access programs for InterSystems cloud technologies, see here: https://gs2022.isccloud.io/#early-access For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

It's Global Summit time! In this episode, Senior Instructional Designer Michelle Spisak and Technical Online Course Developer Adam Coppola join the podcast to talk about the various learning initiatives going on during the Summit next week in Seattle. To explore Global Summit content, check out the social media hashtag, #GlobalSummit22. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, Senior Instructional Designer Michelle Spisak joins the podcast to talk about the accessibility effort within online learning. Learn about what it means for content to be accessible, and how the InterSystems team has worked to improve accessibility within courses, videos, podcasts, and more. To explore the catalog of InterSystems online learning content, visit https://learning.intersystems.com. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, certification exam developer Shane Nowack joins the podcast to talk about InterSystems certification exams. Learn all about why certification exams exist, get updates about current exams, and hear about upcoming exams and ways to get involved. To learn more about writing questions for exams, see here: https://community.intersystems.com/post/earn-money-helping-intersystems-certification-write-exam-questions For general information about certification, head over to https://certification.intersystems.com. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In the first episode of Season 2, Product Manager Bob Kuszewski tells us about Embedded Python in InterSystems IRIS, which integrates Python into the platform alongside InterSystems ObjectScript. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, Product Manager Bob Kuszewski tells us about Kubernetes and the InterSystems Kubernetes Operator (IKO), which makes it easy to deploy InterSystems products in your Kubernetes clusters. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, Product Manager Benjamin De Boe helps us break down all of the new and exciting features and improvements in the 2021.1 release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform. Benjamin tells us about exciting new developments in analytics, business intelligence, machine learning, development gateways, FHIR capabilities, and more. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, we chat with Regilo Souza and Patrick Jamieson about the InterSystems IRIS® FHIR Accelerator Service, a turnkey FHIR solution that will empower FHIR application developers to build innovative applications using FHIR data. Then, we hear from Evgeny Shvarov about the developer contest coming up involving this new and exciting product. To learn more about the developer contest for the InterSystems IRIS® FHIR Accelerator Service, see here: https://community.intersystems.com/post/intersystems-fhir-accelerator-programming-contest For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, we chat with Regilo Souza and Patrick Jamieson about the InterSystems IRIS® FHIR® Accelerator Service, a turnkey FHIR solution that will empower FHIR application developers to build innovative applications using FHIR data. Then, we hear from Evgeny Shvarov about the developer contest coming up involving this new and exciting product. To learn more about the developer contest for the FHIR Accelerator Service, see here: https://community.intersystems.com/post/intersystems-fhir-accelerator-programming-contest For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Derek Robinson 00:00:02 Welcome to Data Points, a podcast by InterSystems Learning Services. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast on your favorite podcast app. Links can be found at datapoints.intersystems.com. I'm Derek Robinson. And on today's episode, I'll chat with Regilo Souza, Patrick Jamieson, and Evgeny Shvarov about the InterSystems IRIS® FHIR Accelerator Service and the upcoming developer contest around it. Derek Robinson 00:00:39 Welcome to the Data Points podcast by InterSystems Learning Services. On today's episode, we'll be talking about one of the new and emerging areas of the InterSystems product stack, which is the InterSystems IRIS® FHIR Accelerator Service. You'll sometimes hear the experts refer to this as FHIR as a Service during our conversation, and that really describes it well. This product provides FHIR® application developers with a turnkey solution for using FHIR data in their healthcare applications, without the overhead of building and supporting all of the FHIR infrastructure that would traditionally be required. For the first part of the episode today, I'll talk with Regilo and Patrick about the InterSystems IRIS® FHIR Accelerator Service, what it is, why it matters for developers, and what's coming throughout the preview and eventual release of this product. Then after that discussion, Evgeny will join us to talk about the Developer Community contest that he runs. The one coming up this month will focus around the FHIR Accelerator Service. So without further ado, let's hear from the experts. Derek Robinson 00:01:40 All right, and welcome to the podcast Regilo and Patrick. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about the InterSystems IRIS® FHIR Accelerator Service. So, we'll start with you, Regilo. First, kind of tell us a little bit about what the IRIS® FHIR Accelerator service is and what the vision is for this product. Regilo Souza 00:01:55 Hi there. Thank you for having us. Well, what we see in the market is that the healthcare sector has improved a lot in the last 20 years, modernizing the health information systems, but we still have a lot of silos inside and outside of the hospital or the health system itself. What we would like to do is be more inclusive, remove the silos, and provide a better way for our customers to the data, create a better healthcare response that we all would like to have. So basically what we want, and that's our vision, is unleash the creative data, so we can have better innovations. Derek Robinson 00:02:44 Right, so kind of removing barriers to be able to, you know, dry unleash that innovation for those application developers that are making kind of the healthcare applications that changed the world, really. Regilo Souza 00:02:54 Correct. So in my previous life, I worked in the World Health Organization, and I know how important it is to have right data in a timely fashion. And I always worry about the researchers, the care coordinators, the people

In this episode, we chat with Regilo Souza and Patrick Jamieson about the InterSystems IRIS® FHIR® Accelerator Service, a turnkey FHIR solution that will empower FHIR application developers to build innovative applications using FHIR data. Then, we hear from Evgeny Shvarov about the developer contest coming up involving this new and exciting product. To learn more about the developer contest for the FHIR Accelerator Service, see here: https://community.intersystems.com/post/intersystems-fhir-accelerator-programming-contest For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Derek Robinson 00:00:02 Welcome to Data Points, a podcast by InterSystems Learning Services. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast on your favorite podcast app. Links can be found at datapoints.intersystems.com. I'm Derek Robinson. And on today's episode, I'll chat with Regilo Souza, Patrick Jamieson, and Evgeny Shvarov about the InterSystems IRIS® FHIR Accelerator Service and the upcoming developer contest around it. Derek Robinson 00:00:39 Welcome to the Data Points podcast by InterSystems Learning Services. On today's episode, we'll be talking about one of the new and emerging areas of the InterSystems product stack, which is the InterSystems IRIS® FHIR Accelerator Service. You'll sometimes hear the experts refer to this as FHIR as a Service during our conversation, and that really describes it well. This product provides FHIR® application developers with a turnkey solution for using FHIR data in their healthcare applications, without the overhead of building and supporting all of the FHIR infrastructure that would traditionally be required. For the first part of the episode today, I'll talk with Regilo and Patrick about the InterSystems IRIS® FHIR Accelerator Service, what it is, why it matters for developers, and what's coming throughout the preview and eventual release of this product. Then after that discussion, Evgeny will join us to talk about the Developer Community contest that he runs. The one coming up this month will focus around the FHIR Accelerator Service. So without further ado, let's hear from the experts. Derek Robinson 00:01:40 All right, and welcome to the podcast Regilo and Patrick. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about the InterSystems IRIS® FHIR Accelerator Service. So, we'll start with you, Regilo. First, kind of tell us a little bit about what the IRIS® FHIR Accelerator service is and what the vision is for this product. Regilo Souza 00:01:55 Hi there. Thank you for having us. Well, what we see in the market is that the healthcare sector has improved a lot in the last 20 years, modernizing the health information systems, but we still have a lot of silos inside and outside of the hospital or the health system itself. What we would like to do is be more inclusive, remove the silos, and provide a better way for our customers to the data, create a better healthcare response that we all would like to have. So basically what we want, and that's our vision, is unleash the creative data, so we can have better innovations. Derek Robinson 00:02:44 Right, so kind of removing barriers to be able to, you know, dry unleash that innovation for those application developers that are making kind of the healthcare applications that changed the world, really. Regilo Souza 00:02:54 Correct. So in my previous life, I worked in the World Health Organization, and I know how important it is to have right data in a timely fashion. And I always worry about the researchers, the care coordinators, the people

In this episode, Carmen Logue, Benjamin De Boe, and Thomas Dyar join the podcast to talk about the various features and products that fall within the Analytics & AI area of the InterSystems technology stack. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, hear from Jeff Fried — the director of product management for data platforms at InterSystems — about InterSystems being named a visionary in Gartner's first ever magic quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, hear about the InterSystems ObjectScript extension in Visual Studio Code that allows developers to easily connect to their InterSystems IRIS instances and write ObjectScript in a familiar and lightweight environment. Product Manager Raj Singh joins Zack Krowiak to discuss this topic in detail! For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, you'll hear about the experience labs that are planned for the 2020 Virtual Summit! To get notified about all updates related to Virtual Summit, and to register when it is available, visit https://www.intersystems.com/virtual-summit-2020. The office hours for each lab will be held in two sessions, as outlined below: Building FHIR Applications with InterSystems API Manager – 11/2, 12pm and 10:30pm ET Hands-On with IntegratedML – 11/3, 12pm and 10:30pm ET ObjectScript Development in Visual Studio Code – 11/4, 12pm and 10:30pm ET HealthShare Provider Directory – 11/5, 12pm and 10:30pm ET Getting Started with InterSystems Reports – 11/5, 10:30pm and 11/6, 12pm ET For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, you'll hear a bit about what's going on within the Online Learning team. First, Michelle Spisak tells us about the monthly learning newsletter. You can subscribe to the newsletter here! https://learning.intersystems.com/course/view.php?name=NewsletterSignUp Then, you'll hear from Jaising Pasten about his journey, his experiences since joining the team, and some of the items he's worked on recently. One of them, which he mentions, is a Provider Directory video about navigation and search. HealthShare customers can view it here: https://learning.intersystems.com/course/view.php?name=PDFirstView For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Derek Robinson 00:00:02 Welcome to Data Points, a podcast by InterSystems Learning Services. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast on your favorite podcast app. Links can be found at datapoints.intersystems.com. I'm Derek Robinson. And on today's episode, we're chatting with Michelle Spisak and Jaising Pasten, two of my colleagues on the Online Learning team, for a look inside Online Learning. Derek Robinson 00:00:43 Welcome to Episode 13 of Data Points by InterSystems Learning Services. Today's episode is the first in what may be a recurring type of episode every once in a while, called What's New in Online Learning? The idea behind an episode like this one is to take a look behind the scenes of the Online Learning team as we build content and work on projects aimed to better equip learners of our technology. In the first half of the episode, I'll talk to Michelle Spisak, an Instructional Designer on the team, about the monthly learning newsletter. Then I'll chat with fellow course developer Jaising Pasten, about what his experiences have been since joining the Online Learning team after spending several years in the InterSystems Chile office, working on TrackCare, learning, and implementation. So without further ado, here's Michelle. Derek Robinson 00:01:26 All right, and welcome to the podcast, Michelle Spisak, Instructional Designer here at InterSystems. Michelle, how's it going? Michelle Spisak: It's good, Derek, how are you doing? Derek Robinson: I'm doing great. We're very happy to have you on for a little bit different of an episode today. We're really focusing within Learning Services and talking about some of the things that we have going on. So obviously you have, you know, a lot of different responsibilities in your role here at InterSystems in the Learning Services team as an Instructional Designer, but we're going to focus today on your role with the Learning Services newsletter. So first question kind of just for the audience that may not be familiar with it and may not know what it is, tell us what the Learning Services newsletter is and why we began offering it in the first place. Michelle Spisak 00:02:02 Yeah, so the newsletter is just basically a way for our clients and partners to stay up to date with what Learning Services is coming out with. So on the Online team, we're always coming out with new videos and learning paths, and other things like that. Documentation has been working really hard to modernize their website and make it even easier for people to find what they really need, really quickly. And so we

In this episode, you'll hear insights from Jenny Ames, Gary Maggiolino, and Joey Moritz about the new chat bot that was implemented on a few different InterSystems sites. Using a chat bot, in conjunction with a human support team, can enable users to find answers to their questions quickly and easily. To see the chat functionality discussed in this podcast, you can check out https://gettingstarted.intersystems.com or browse https://www.intersystems.com, notably the "Try InterSystems IRIS" page linked at the top. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, Ksenia Samokhvalova — UX designer at InterSystems — joins the podcast to talk about the user experience for InterSystems products and how her team strives to improve that experience through smart design. Take a quick survey and sign up to be a user experience tester: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NNYWWKT For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, Luca Ravazzolo — product manager for cloud and container technology — joins the podcast for his second appearance. He's telling us all about SAM (System Alerting & Monitoring), a new component of InterSystems IRIS that users will want to hear about. To try out SAM, visit this GitHub repository: https://github.com/intersystems-community/sam For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

This episode features the second part of our interview with senior clinical advisor for interoperability at InterSystems, Russ Leftwich. Check out Episode 8 for the first half! In this portion of the interview, Adam and Russ carry the healthcare interoperability discussion into more specifics about InterSystems technologies and FHIR applications. After the interview, we're also welcoming Jenny Ames back to the podcast to tell us about the upcoming FHIR Dev Days! Check out https://gettingstartedhealth.intersystems.com and https://www.devdays.com/us/event-info/ for more details. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com

This episode features the first part of our interview with senior clinical advisor for interoperability at InterSystems, Russ Leftwich. In our discussion, Russ tells us about the history of healthcare interoperability, modern breakthroughs in its technology, and some of the biggest challenges that modern systems need to overcome. To check out the new series of InterSystems IRIS Tech Talks mentioned in the introduction, head over to https://www.intersystems.com/intersystems-iris-tech-talks. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, we chat with product manager for analytics and AI, Carmen Logue. Carmen tells us all about the newly released InterSystems Reports, what functionality it provides, how it fits into the existing set of InterSystems products, and more. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, we chat with certification manager Jamie Kantor about the certification program at InterSystems. Jamie explains why certification programs exist in the software industry, how InterSystems has evolved to build its certification exams, and why it matters to developers, partners, and customers of InterSystems. To learn more about getting certified, you can reach out to certification@intersystems.com. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, we chat with technical writer Bob Binstock about mirroring databases in InterSystems products — specifically in InterSystems IRIS. Bob is a technical writer at InterSystems with lots of knowledge about topics like these, and he walks us through the concept of mirroring for high availability. You'll hear about primaries and backups, journal files, failovers, and more. To try out the First Look exercise on data resiliency and mirroring, visit https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?KEY=AFL_dataresil. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com.

In this episode, we chat with Benjamin De Boe, product manager for data management and analytics, about optimizing the performance of your SQL queries in InterSystems IRIS. Benjamin will go over some of the most common issues that cause performance loss within your queries, the easiest ways to fix them, and some other items to look for in order to ensure your queries are healthy and efficient. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com. To try InterSystems IRIS today, head over to https://www.intersystems.com/try and launch your instance! You can find our SQL QuickStart at https://learning.intersystems.com/course/view.php?name=SQL%20QS, and if you'd like to discuss these SQL topics on the Developer Community, you can head over to https://community.intersystems.com. TRANSCRIPT: Derek Robinson 00:00:01 Welcome to Data Points, a podcast by InterSystems Learning Services. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast on your favorite podcast app, such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or Stitcher. You can do this by searching for Data Points and hitting that Subscribe button. My name is Derek Robinson, and on today's episode, I'll chat with Benjamin De Boe, Product Manager for Data Management and Analytics at InterSystems, about SQL performance in InterSystems IRIS. Derek Robinson 00:00:40 Welcome to Episode 4 of Data Points by InterSystems Learning Services. Hopefully you enjoyed the launch of the podcast earlier this month, which featured three episodes. Going forward, we plan to release one to two new episodes each month. So make sure you're subscribed on your favorite podcast app, and that way you won't miss any new episodes. We also have a new homepage for the podcast with an easy-to-remember URL; it's datapoints.intersystems.com. That page has the latest episode, more recent episodes, and the links to go subscribe on the different podcast apps. So go check that out for sure. Today I'm talking with Benjamin De Boe about SQL performance tips in InterSystems IRIS. Benjamin has worked with us and Learning Services quite a bit over the last few years to create engaging content in his areas of expertise. One of my favorite things about working with Benjamin is his ability to clearly convey concepts and really make them easy to understand. I think that comes through in our discussion here with Benjamin De Boe. Derek Robinson 00:01:35 All right, and welcome to the podcast Benjamin De Boe, Product Manager for Data Management and Analytics here at InterSystems. Benjamin, how's it going? Benjamin De Boe I'm doing great. Thanks, Derek. How are you? Derek Robinson I'm doing great. Thanks. So today we're going to talk about SQL performance InterSystems IRIS. A lot of SQL developers out there might use different data models for their applications that use InterSystems IRIS, of course, we've mentioned in other episodes, we have multi-model database that you can kind of choose which approach based on your use case. But here we're going to talk about relational SQL, and where do we really begin? So I think what we're looking to you for here, some of the common practices and best, you know, tips for enhancing your performance and things like that. So what's kind of your overview level explanation of the SQL performance in IRIS, and where you'd start with it? Benjamin De Boe 00:02:23 Okay. So there's a whole lot of things to talk about of course, when we talk about SQL performance, and much o

In this episode, we chat with Thomas Dyar, product manager for machine learning and AI, about IntegratedML in InterSystems IRIS – the feature coming this spring that will enable SQL developers building applications to leverage machine learning directly within the SQL environment of InterSystems IRIS. In our discussion, Thomas tells us how he first got interested in machine learning, some of the most important uses of machine learning in the world today, and how InterSystems IRIS is taking the next step to unlock these capabilities for all developers. To reach out to Thomas Dyar about IntegratedML, you can send him an email at thomas.dyar@intersystems.com. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com. To try InterSystems IRIS today, head over to https://www.intersystems.com/try and launch your instance!

In this episode, we chat with Luca Ravazzolo, product manager for cloud and containers, about Kubernetes - the most popular container orchestration platform today. Kubernetes (K8s) provides a rich set of features for deploying, managing, and maintaining your containers deployed across clusters of machines. Luca also talks a bit about the InterSystems Kubernetes Operator and the future role of Kubernetes within InterSystems products. For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com. To try InterSystems IRIS today, head over to https://www.intersystems.com/try and launch your instance! TRANSCRIPT: Derek Robinson 00:01 Welcome to Data Points, a podcast by InterSystems Learning Services. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast on your favorite podcast app such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or Stitcher. You can do this by searching for Data Points and hitting that Subscribe button. My name is Derek Robinson, and on today's episode, I'll chat with Luca Ravazzolo, Product Manager for cloud and containers at InterSystems, about Kubernetes. Derek Robinson 00:39 Welcome to Episode Two of Data Points by InterSystems Learning Services. My name is Derek Robinson. As you may have heard in Episode One, we're excited about the launch of this podcast, and we've already released three episodes for you to check out. In this episode, I'll be talking Kubernetes with Luca Ravazzolo. Luca is a Product Manager here at InterSystems, focused on the area of cloud and containers. He brings a ton of experience to the table. He celebrated 30 years at InterSystems this past fall. What you're going to hear about Derek Robinson 00:01 Welcome to Data Points, a podcast by InterSystems Learning Services. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast on your favorite podcast app such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or Stitcher. You can do this by searching for Data Points and hitting that Subscribe button. My name is Derek Robinson, and on today's episode, I'll chat with Luca Ravazzolo, Product Manager for cloud and containers at InterSystems, about Kubernetes. Derek Robinson 00:39 Welcome to Episode Two of Data Points by InterSystems Learning Services. My name is Derek Robinson. As you may have heard in Episode One, we're excited about the launch of this podcast, and we've already released three episodes for you to check out. In this episode, I'll be talking Kubernetes with Luca Ravazzolo. Luca is a Product Manager here at InterSystems, focused on the area of cloud and containers. He brings a ton of experience to the table. He celebrated 30 years at InterSystems this past fall. What you're going to hear about Kubernetes really builds off of the concept of using Docker containers. I'm sure we'll have episodes covering Docker concepts in the future, but for now, definitely browse our learning catalog for starter information about containers, if you're interested in them. Kubernetes is one of these newer technologies that really allows you to take your container approach to the next level. Rather than diving into those details, I'll leave the real explanation to the expert. So here's my interview with Luca. Derek Robinson 01:38 Alrighty. So welcome to the podcast Luca Ravazzolo, Product Manager for cloud and containers here at InterSystems. Luca, how are you doing? Luca Ravazzolo I'm doing very well, Derek. How are you doing? Derek Robinson. Good. So we're happy to have you on the podcast here today and we're going to be talking about a pretty cool, a fairly new cloud topic today, which is Kubernetes. So, I know that you've done some stuff on this at our Global Summit, at InterSystems here, and there's a lot of

Welcome to Data Points! In this episode, we chat with Jenny Ames, team lead of online learning content, about InterSystems IRIS – the flexible, scalable, and interoperable data platform that powers many of the world's most important applications. From its multi-model nature to its integration engine to its healthcare features, there's a lot to unpack in one conversation! For more information about Data Points, visit https://datapoints.intersystems.com. To try InterSystems IRIS today, head over to https://www.intersystems.com/try and launch your instance! You can also check out more materials at https://gettingstarted.intersystems.com.

InterSystems Learning Services is launching a brand new learning podcast in February! Data Points will be a learning-oriented podcast that features conversations with experts about InterSystems products and the tech industry today. Find us on your favorite podcast app, hit that subscribe button, and get ready for our first episode!