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best-of-breed

The best product of its type. Organizations often purchase software from different vendors in order to obtain the best-of-breed for each application area; for example, a human resources package from one vendor and an accounting package from another. While ERP vendors provide a wealth of applications for the enterprise and tout their integrated system as the superior solution, every module may not be best-of-breed. It is difficult to excel in every niche. See best-of-class.
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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.
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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.
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