Comments on: Misys Sells Off Sunquest, CPR, Exiting the Hospital Systems Business

By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:40:16 +0000

…for DonewifMisys. Sunquest was never valued for more than the revenue it could produce. The last few years have been 1 big revenue call, cutting every possible expense to make that call. When people left they were not replaced so we circled the wagons tighter and did more with less, improving that revenue call even more. We are lean and mean and have always been ready to go; we were just waiting for some serious leadership with a vision. With a new owner in the wings we now have that. Don’t look behind you because; in fact put your goggles on as you will be eating our dust.

By: passthemustard

passthemustard — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:42:30 +0000

Isn’t Winchester now in the process of building a new business here in the US? It has something to do with diabetes care. Isn’t it another UK backed one?

By: UsetabeMisys

UsetabeMisys — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:37:01 +0000

DonewifMisys:

Funny how the Sunquest did *great* with all of those
sun-warped thinkers, but Misys somehow couldn’t do
the same. Also funny how the parking lot only started
emptying early sometime *after* Misys took over.

It couldn’t be that the fault lay with Misys management
rather than with the desert-dwellers, could it?

By: Alias

Alias — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:57:18 +0000

I agree DonewifMisys – the physician group has provided their share of the profits. Could it be that some of the issues with Misys had to do with the fact that these two groups were never able to achieve the desired synergy to make things happen? Was each division like a family that had too much sibling rivalry (the answer is yes.) There were some great leaders (Marc Winchester comes to mind) that were visionary enough to know that success required more leveraging of strengths, but, sadly lack of execution on many fronts (including across the pond) led us to where things are today.

By: DonewifMisys

DonewifMisys — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:57:35 +0000

I have watched with much amusement for the last two years as the desert dwellers from Sunquest lament over the “imagined injustices” that have befallen them since Misys bought Sunquest in 2001. During that time I never felt compelled to jump into this fray until now. The ridiculous idea that Sunquest was the only successful or profitable business in the Misys portfolio only proves that the Sunquest long timers have let the desert sun warp their thinking.

The phyician segment at Misys was a great business with a very healthy client base and an impressive recurring revenue stream when Misys made the acquisition in 1997. Despite the business challenges, the Misys physician products are no less marketable than “flexi-lab”. The difference is that the Misys Raleigh employees have continued to adapt to the realities of the market instead of sitting in Tucson lamenting the fate of their woefully antiquated product.

God bless Vista Equity Partners. They bought a very good, very neglected product. But sadly, they bought an employee group that is not willing to accept that the heyday is over and that to achieve any semblance of success again, they will have to stop blogging here, be at their desks at 5pm (for a change) and actually create a marketable product.

If you wish hard enough and click your ruby slippers together, it will be just like it was in 1988.

Good luck with that. But if all else fails, log on here and blame your new owner. It seems to make you lot feel much better.