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Best of Breed

The company or investment in a sector that represents the lowest risk or the possibility of the greatest gain for the holder. The best of breed is a good quality investment, at least compared with those most similar to it.
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"I haven't purchased a best-of-breed stereo for my car since I was in college," Klappich says.
2018 ERP UPDATE: Are the mega-suite vendors taking over supply chain management? With 58% of shippers committed to their enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors, the key players are casting an even bigger shadow on the supply chain management space
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Technology adoption: bests-of-breed or bust
Six months ago, I received a call from a pathologist telling me that his healthcare system was going to consider upgrading its AP LIS and, if I wanted our Best-of-Breed Anatomic Pathology LIS system to be considered, I should contact its IT department.
Information technology: impacting pathology in the future ... or not?
Chuck Podesta, senior vice president: and CIO at the 562-bed Fletcher Allen Healthcare in Burlington, Vt., has faced what many CIOs might consider a potential "nightmare" scenario: he's ripped out a popular best-of-breed emergency department (ED) information system and installed the ED IS module from his core clinical EMR vendor (the Verona, Wis.-based Epic Systems Corp.).
Urgent care CIOs struggle with the ED systems integration issue: will standalone systems stand a chance under the pressures of meaningful use data collection and reporting requirements? CIOs are of two minds
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Riverbed Technology, a leading IT performance company, has launched a comprehensive, best-of-breed secure Web gateway and WAN optimisation solution for organisations with remote offices.
Riverbed unveils new Web gateway solution
"Especially when considering best-of-breed products, people tend to look at the technology first and then have to do a lot of backtracking," said Bill Nagel, an analyst for Forrester Research in Amsterdam.
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As for vendor solutions, respondents to the Celent survey show an inclination for best-of-breed solutions.
Pressure cooker: insurers balance growing the business and increasing profitability with controlling costs
Summary: New Best-of-Breed Solution Streamlines Deployment of Remote and Branch Office Security
Riverbed Partners with Check Point to Deliver Virtualized Solutions Integrating Security and WAN Optimization

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