iSOFT toehold in US market with US$14.9 million acquisition

Peter Dinham
Thursday, 13 August 2009 16:29

IT Industry - Strategy

Cohen said the acquisition was also part of iSOFT’s strategy of ensuring it has world-class intellectual property across the entire healthcare continuum.

“The BridgeForward deal, like our Hatrix acquisition earlier this year, is about strengthening our product offering. In BridgeForward we’ve acquired an excellent team of developers and a leading-edge technology we can sell as a standalone product or embedded in our own Lorenzo next-generation solution.”

BridgeForward’s founder and CEO, John Moriarty, said the company - founded in 2005 - had become one of the leading providers of application integration technology in healthcare.

“The team has more than 15 years experience helping healthcare providers reduce the challenges associated with data integration and data migration. The company’s solutions are installed in more than 4,000 organizations in the U.K, U.S, Canada and Europe, including Partners HealthCare in Boston and Cleveland Clinic.”

According to Moriarty, BridgeForward’s latest release “Viaduct”, which he said enables users to design and build complex integration processes, is a graphical interoperability platform that enables legacy applications to participate in a service-oriented architecture.