HSLynk Developer Feature Summary
Key Benefit
The code is open source. We run the code for you on the cloud, so you don't have to pay for enterprise server infrastructure. Your data stays under your community's control and ownership. Third-party apps may be added and removed, as your community chooses, but the data can stay where it is. This is "Data Centric". Data Centrism ends the legacy cycle of migrating data from one Human Services/HMIS app to another, which was an "App Wasteland" where the "tail [vendor] wags the dog [customer]".
Open Source Code Features
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APIs are all here to try out: https://docs.hslynk.com and the API source code is open source: https://github.com/hmis-api
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Trusted app accounts can be set up for each 3rd party app. See: https://about.hslynk.com/news/hslynk-developer-test-account
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Software implementation code is also open source: https://github.com/servinglynk/hslynk-open-source and https://github.com/hserv/coordinated-entry
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Public issue tracker: https://github.com/servinglynk/hslynk-open-source-docs/issues and wiki: https://github.com/servinglynk/hslynk-open-source-docs/wiki
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"Data-centric." No need to migrate data. Your community can keep running the code forever. The code is provided under the Mozilla Public License v2 (in short, use freely, but you must share back enhancements). Of course, you can easily export/migrate the data if you wish.
- Master Patient Index - Open EMPI (open source version)
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Microservices architecture (a type of Service Oriented Architecture, but with smaller independent subsystems for each new functionality)
- Publish/Subscribe notification microservice.
- Apache Marmotta Data Lake for W3C Linked Data
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Big Data for fast reporting off massive data sets, which doesn't slow the regular database.. Default fields are searchable here.
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Information and Referral Specific Features coming soon
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HUD Homeless Management Information System-specific features
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HUD Coordinated Entry System-specific features
Hosted Service Features
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Virtual Private Cloud - Puts a wall around your running open source code
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Enterprise platform: redundant, distributed, secure
- operational database cluster (PostgreSQL)
- data warehouse (Hadoop + HBase) on a multi-zone cluster, which you can connect to with Impala, Hive, Spark, etc. using any analytic tool you wish to use (Tableau, R-Shiny, Power BI)
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24/7 API status monitoring and API support for 3rd party applications and push notifications
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Far lower shared host costs than if each site hosted their own. See pricing.
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Custom consulting available for additional features
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All customers benefit from open source enhancements provided for one customer (no double-billing of customers for adding the same feature)
Chat With Us
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Chat with us on Gitter
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Join our email listserv
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We now have a slack channel on #hslynk at hmishelp.slack.com