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| 21 March 2006 | ||||||
iSOFT achieves its largest ever concurrent user performance and scalability benchmark | ||||||
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In benchmark tests, iSOFT’s LORENZO healthcare solution handled six million ‘real’ transactions per hour for 25,000 concurrent users. LORENZO is iSOFT’s core application for single practices to large regional healthcare organisations. These exceptional performance results were achieved with HP, Intel and Microsoft during a regional scale user benchmark proving the scalability to 25,000 concurrent users of LORENZO. Results were validated by analysts from International Data Corporation (IDC) and its Health Industry Insights subsidiary. One of the largest of its kind in healthcare, the benchmark provides an excellent example deployment model for very large-scale, multi-site LORENZO implementations. The benchmark was performed on iSOFT's LORENZO Regional Care solution and achieved sub-second transaction response times. It shows the application supports the trend towards centralised, regionally based solutions. Using scenarios based on a mixture of primary and secondary care transactions, a simulated Regional Care environment was built at HP's European Performance Centre at Stuttgart, Germany. Testing using real world healthcare transactions such as requesting, prescribing, clinical noting, appointment booking and managing patient demographics was performed individually for 25, 250, 3,000, 5,000, 15,000 and 25,000 concurrent users. The results verified the capability of the system to provide the performance and scalability to support 25,000 concurrent users delivering over six million transactions an hour and scale down to 25 concurrent users with 8,289 transactions per hour. The benchmark was based on industry standard hardware and software from leading technology partner organisations. These were HP's ProLiant DL380 G4 servers running Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors and HP Integrity Superdome servers running Intel Itanium 2 processors. HP's EVA 8000 SAN storage was used together with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Data Center Edition, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. Mercury LoadRunner software was used to simulate the desired significant workload on LORENZO. The exercise demonstrates iSOFT's delivery of robust, enterprise-level, data centre-based technologies that meet the scalability demands of today's growing healthcare economies. “This proves LORENZO is scalable, capable and quick,” said iSOFT’s Technical Director Phil Davies. “It is also an extremely cost-effective solution since it minimises the hardware footprint using mainstream technology.” Mark Armstrong, Public Sector Manager, Hewlett Packard, said: ”iSOFT has extended the boundaries by making the delivery of transactions to large numbers of concurrent users possible. By doing this we believe that iSOFT is improving the delivery of patient-based health services and have proved, once again, that they are committed to making healthcare more accessible. We are pleased that HP – through our Integrity Superdome servers, industry standard ProLiant servers and EVA storage products – can support iSOFT in this benchmarking success.” "Healthcare organisations world-wide are interested in improving quality of care by providing accurate, up-to-date patient information to authorised care givers at the point of decision. The results of the benchmark studies show that iSOFT's LORENZO application running on Intel Itanium 2 and Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based servers can cost-effectively help healthcare organisations meet those goals through integrated care records that can be securely updated and accessed in real-time across regional care networks," said Doug Busch, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Intel’s Digital Health Group. “Microsoft is excited to see the results of iSOFT’s LORENZO benchmark,” said Neil Jordan, Executive Director of World Wide Health and Human Services at Microsoft Corp. “We believe our mutual enterprise customers will benefit from this robust market leading solution running on SQL Server 2005.” Download PDF: LORENZO Regional Care benchmark For further information, please contact: |
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