Belgian Hospital Chooses IBM/Mainsoft Portal Solution to Serve Medical Community

Belgian Hospital Chooses IBM/Mainsoft Portal Solution to Serve Medical Community

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Mainsoft Corporation, an independent software and IBM business partner, today announced that the Belgian University Hospital Ghent (UZ Gent) has chosen IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.0 to develop a self-service virtual information center for its 5,000 staff members, students, healthcare professionals, plus more than 380,000 patients and their families that visit the hospital each year.
Using the .NET-Java interoperability software from Mainsoft, UZ Gent’s .NET development team will use the Visual Studio 2005 development environment to integrate its existing .NET application framework, 15 strategic .NET applications, more than five terabytes of data stored in an Oracle database, and an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) repository into a highly secure, role-based WebSphere Portal environment running under Linux. Rather than rewriting the .NET code in Java, Mainsoft for Java EE, Portal Edition will enable UZ Gent’s enterprise development team to cross-compile .NET-based code into Java executables that run locally on WebSphere Portal.

“We have chosen IBM’s open architecture because IBM will allow us to take a platform-independent course in the coming years, enabling us to respond quickly to emerging needs and changing technological circumstances,” said Dr. Bart Sijnave, CIO of UZ Gent. “Thanks to Mainsoft, we can use our enterprise .NET skills and code to develop a platform-independent, user-centric portal environment that best meets our audiences’ diverse needs, with single sign-on, secure access to the information they need as well as maximum accessibility, availability and scalability.”

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