The 1st InterSystems Idea-A-Thon Winners - hooray!
Hello Community,
The 1st InterSystems Idea-A-Thon is over. As a result, 75 brilliant ideas – an absolute success, wow! 🤩
Thank you all for participating with your ideas and contributing with your votes and comments!
And now we're so glad to announce the winners...

Expert Award
🏆 Change Management for Editors inside of Portal submitted by @Scott Roth
Community Award
To show our appreciation to our participants, we've decided to expand our Community nomination and award several top-voted ideas:
🌟 Nodejs with IRIS a dynamic platform submitted by @Sharafat Hussain
🌟 E-learning for job submitted by @Andre Larsen Barbosa
🌟 Code snippets library submitted by @Danny Wijnschenk
All the winners will receive one of our specially prepared prizes: LEGO Star Wars™ R2-D2™ / BOSE Sleepbuds™ II / BOSE SoundLink Flex Bluetooth® speaker bundle.
🔥 In addition to our winners, we'd like to highlight all our participants and their bright ideas. Let's meet all of them:
Spoiler
- Modernize terminal
- Use the built-in feature engineering in AutoML to transform datasets
- Add a wizard similar to the SOAP wizard to generate a REST client from OpenAPI specification
- New reward: IRIS developer license
- IRIS and ZPM(Open Exchange) integration
- Bare minimum start of IRIS for docker build
- New rewards
- BPL, DTL, Business Rule Editor in VSCode
- Articles and answered questions recommendations
- RPMShare - Database solution for remote patient monitoring (RPM) datasets of high density vitals
- Move users, roles, resources, user tasks, Mappings (etc) to a seperate Database, other than %SYS, so these items can be mirrored
- Create a UI for convenient and easy transfer of projects (classes, globals, applications, users, roles, privileges, grants, namespace mapping, SQLgateways, libraries, etc.) to other system instances for fast deployment.
- InterSystems Ideas - Long Term
- Cloud Service Starter Kit
- PM platform
- Tool to convert legacy dot syntax code to use bracket syntax
- Add basic tutorial of Docker or point to a Docker tutorial in Documentation
- Better handle whitespace in Management Portal Text entry
- Reserve licenses
- Improve Production Migration From TST to PRD
- Data Analyzer
- Create front-end package based on CSS and JS to be used in NodeJS and Angular projects
- Expose Global Masters Badges
- VS Code: Index local workspace folder
- Add a chatbot to the Global Masters hub
- PDF reports for IRIS BI
- Sample code share opportunity
- Common Data Modelling
- CI/CD support
- Journal file analysis/visualization
- A Dynamic Cheat Sheet to lookup for Common Core Functions for Reusability
- Version History for Classes
- Visual programming language
- Interoperability Wizard
- Connectivity of DeepSee with External Database
- Better unicode support
- Dark Mode for Studio!
- HealthShare Patient Unmerge Ooopses
- Editing category of the idea after adding it
- Group events for people outside the community
- TTTC
- Embedded Python: Add a built-in variable to represent class
- Create a new model type option for IRIS database: blockchain
- Add the option to call class parameters in Embedded Python
- A client to export codes from specified packages from IRIS/Cache
- Reagent Consumption Module - Auto Consumption of Lab Machine Reagents
- Cache Journal Switch Schedule
- Colour Background on Ward / Clinical Areas Floorplans
- Production Audit Report
- Run Jasperreports from ObjectScript and IRIS Adapter
- Business Operation Testing mode per namespace
- Do not change formatting when compiling through GUI
- File Service class to allow multiple instances to share access to one directory
- Native RPC API for ObjectScript
- change data chapture
- Expose internal code elements (classes, routines etc) through SFTP, CIFS/SMB or similar established protocol
- LDAP Authentication method by default on Web Applications
- Monitoring and Programatic way of Starting/Stoping Gateways
- Improve journal display in IRIS admin portal
- Adapting tools for people with special needs and/or disabilities 🌐🔰🦽🦼♿
- Backup button before importing
- Add wizard to create class with its properties
- Create query builder
- Linux: iris session [command line] get commands from a file
- String format to numeric values in ZEN.proxyObject
- The ability to export current settings to a %Installer Manifest
- Linking I service to JIRA system
- I service Flags
- Patient Initiated Follow Up - Adding a document to an ROPWL
- Mirror Async Member Time Delay in Applying Journals
- Please add google oauth authorization to login to the management portal
All Idea-A-Thon participants will get our special InterSystems Branded T-shirt.
OUR BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS AND PARTICIPANTS!
Thank you for such great contributions to the official InterSystems feedback portal 💥
Important note: The prizes are in production now. We will contact all the participants when they are ready to ship.
Comments
Thanks for the opportunity, not being a developer, it was harder to participate in more technical contests.
Thank you #InterSystems for arranging #Idea-A-Thon. It is great to keep on track of innovations while carrying the legacy.
Congrats winners!
Thanks!!!
Congratulation to all the winners
Congratulations to the winners!
Thanks for giving us this opportunity to share our ideas!
Congratulations to the winners and all participants! Amazing ideas, unexpectedly large amount of new ideas! It was a great experience for me to participate in organization of this event. Thank you!
Congrats to the winners!
Thanks for giving us a way to express ideas and changes that we have pondered for years.
Isn't it great when your ideas come to life so quickly... Check out our last few posts on the Developer Community, where we have been discussing our new Production component driver for Deltanji source control - a solution for the winning entry!
Great minds think alike @Scott Roth, congratulations on winning the contest.
Link to most recent post here: https://community.intersystems.com/post/source-control-interoperability…
75! I'm so surprised by how many bright ideas community kept in secret that were revealed now! Thanks, Ideas Portal team @Anastasia Dyubaylo @Vadim Aniskin and @Raj Singh for running the idea-a-thon!
It looks like the next step is the implementation marathon ;)