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Another important aspect of Synergy
was the ability to create multiple databases for customers that can sync with Merge’s
own database. IBM’s Raza said that ability
is particularly important for customers working across multiple groups.
With Telelogic Change, Merge was
able to create a specific log that helped keep track of change requests and defects
during the development process, Bascom said. In addition, the tool was easily
customizable for what Merge wanted to do.
“We didn’t have to change our process
for it to work for us,” he said. “We could change the tool to fit what we
wanted to do.”
Raza said being able to track changes
and fix defects is a key part of creating useful software.
“The idea [behind the Telelogic
tools] is to capture and manage all sorts of change in your company,” he said.
The tools, according to Bascom, enabled
Merge to assure customers that the Cedara WebAccess technology not only meets
their needs for getting products to end users in a fast and efficient fashion,
but that the product also complies with the demands of the various federal regulations
governing privacy and security.
Merge is just beginning to roll out
Cedara WebAccess now, he said, though there was a lot of interest from
attendees at the Radiological Society event in Chicago.
Cedara WebAccess is being sold through Merge’s OEM business; Merge will sell it
to other parties, which will then sell it to their customers.
Merge expects the first deployments
of the technology to begin late this year or early in the first quarter of
2009.
Sometime next year, Merge will be
adding the capability of creating three-dimensional digital images from multiplanar
reformation images, or MPRs. MPRs offer two-dimensional image slices, Bascom
said. Through the new capabilities Merge will add to Cedara WebAccess in 2009, health
care providers will be able to navigate through 3-D images created from 2-D MPRs.
“It’s a way of viewing 3-D data in a
2-D [environment],” he said.
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