Breaking through this mindset isn't easy for
best-of-breed SCM vendors--even those that can clearly spell out how much better, more robust, or fully-functional their applications are.
One of the world's fastest growing cloud strategy companies, today Evolve IP provides
best-of-breed cloud solutions to more than 1,500 enterprises and to more than 210,000 users in virtually every industry including: healthcare, finance, veterinary, legal, insurance, construction, technology, travel, and retail.
The larger
best-of-breed vendors, such as Manhattan Associates, JDA and HighJump, are on the highest strata, while SME-focused ERP vendors were generally once at the lower two levels.
Be sure the new products you adopt support the standards that are critical to the success of your
best-of-breed strategy.
An Enterprise-Wide approach, augmented with a
Best-of-Breed solution (when appropriate at a departmental level), is often in the best interest of the facility, the department, and, most importantly, the patient.
Alex Chelleri, president of Pebble Beach Systems Asia Pacific, says: "Under Pebble Beach Systems' automation control, Dolphin delivers highly automated, frame-accurate multi-channel playout and ingest capability, and integrates seamlessly as a standalone device into a system which might also incorporate
best-of-breed video server, graphics or captioning devices for prime channels.
The current landscape around meaningful use requirements under the HITECH Act is forcing CIOs and their colleagues to confront a stark choice between two strategies--one being maintaining a
best-of-breed emergency department (ED) clinical information system, and interfacing it to their core inpatient electronic medical record system; and the other being to pursue a uniform core-clinical strategy, even if that means ripping and replacing a
best-of-breed ED system with an ED module from the core-clinical vendor.