Ensemble Best Integration Software in the market? Not really...

Some weeks ago I was searching something with Big G (I don't remember exactly what), and I found this news: Report recognizes Ensemble as best Integration Software of the market (the news is in portuguese, and I just adapted the title). This really surprised me! I'm not saying Ensemble is a bad software, but the fact is, that it is faaar from being what I would like to work with (OK, there are parts of it that are reaaaally terrible).

I followed the link, and after I have read the page, I just realized that this, as many news calls, is (at least) incomplete. Lets to the facts: A report really pointed this 'leadership' of Ensemble. However, the report aims only for american Healthcare IT business, which is much more restrict than the term 'of the market' means.

The company which published this report is KLAS, which in their words "is the only research and consulting firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare’s information technology (HIT) vendors". The report is not completely available (at least, not free at the site), but you can get a sample of it here.

As it was done, the result of this report didn't surprised me that much. Caché (and therefore, Ensemble, which is built upon it) is a very strong player in the market of Healthcare IT, inherited from MUMPS. Although Intersystems doesn't like to mention it. Caché is an implementation of MUMPS (with some new features, but the 'spirit' is the same).

IMHO, if this report was made not focusing this specific market, Ensemble would not be that well. I don't have data to confirm this, so if someone knows some reliable data, tell me! (but please, I don't want those 'white papers' from their own company, which is probably written by marketing division)