On June 24, 2020, Param Singh, Perficient’s director of clinical trial operations solutions, will host a webinar on clinical trial management system (CTMS) migrations. He’ll explore the various reasons companies decide to migrate to new solutions and the different methods of migrating legacy data. As you might expect, the bulk of the CTMS work we […]
Have You Heard About Oracle’s Clinical One?
Over the last few years, Oracle has been hard at work developing its newest flagship clinical trials platform called Clinical One. The company has invested a significant amount of money and personnel in building the platform. While there are many more capabilities to come over the next few years, you can already leverage Clinical One […]
Improving the Performance of Oracle InForm Reports
I recently shared a project in which we helped a pharmaceutical company build studies in Oracle InForm. Today, I want to share a project that has to do with the length of time it took for a major pharmaceutical company to run Oracle InForm reports, which caused significant problems, including delays in being able to […]
Oracle InForm Study Building
The beauty of having a versatile team of clinical data management experts is that they understand the life sciences industry and how companies operate. Through client projects and having worked at pharma companies in previous roles, they know the many unique challenges and needs of pharmaceutical and medical device companies. Equally important, they’re also technologists. […]
Are You Ready for the Next Wave of PPP Funding?
Many banks are finding it challenging to capture and process loan applications that have been submitted in response to the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). We even learned that some banks missed out on the first round of PPP because they didn’t have a portal up and running to accept borrower applications. That’s a significant […]
Should You Consider Revamping Your Insurance Claims Process?
Many of us have experienced the unfortunate situation of having to submit a claim with an insurance company, whether it’s related to our auto or home. For me, the submission process was a mixed bag. One or two instances – at most- were relatively painless. The rest of my experiences were less than desirable. Why […]
Processing Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan Applications With AI
In recent days, many articles have been published about how banks are challenged with processing loan applications that are submitted in response to the government’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which, according to the Small Business Administration (SBA), “authorizes up to $349 billion in forgivable loans to small businesses to pay their employees during the COVID-19 […]
How Banks Respond to COVID-19 Will Test Their CX
We are living in unprecedented times. This is the first time in my life I see people’s daily lives and habits change on such a large scale, and in many cases, not by choice. Lots of things are changing because of the coronavirus (i.e., COVID-19). Schools are closing, concerts and sporting events have been canceled, […]
Benefits of Deploying Financial Services Systems in the Cloud pt2
As a firm migrates financial services applications to the cloud, systems integration becomes of paramount importance. When some applications remain on-premises while others are housed in the cloud, data must seamlessly and securely be transferred bi-directionally, and in a timeframe consistent with operational requirements. Some of the integration techniques used when all applications are within […]
Benefits of Deploying Financial Service Systems in the Cloud
While deploying key financial service systems in the cloud has numerous advantages, the paradigm, as compared to on-premises systems, is sufficiently different as to require a comprehensive analysis of risks and readiness. The benefits of the cloud have been well documented (reduced up-front infrastructure costs, speed, ability to add server and storage resources on demand, […]
Migrating Core Financial Services Applications to the Cloud
In our most recent blog post, we outlined and discussed the components required for a successful financial process transformation. Today, we focus on migrating to the cloud with your core financial service applications. It wasn’t that long ago that financial services firms shunned the cloud. In 2010, Forrester Research published a report entitled “Cloud Computing […]
Components of a Financial Transformation Program
The previous blog post in this series about transforming financial processes discussed the adjunct applications and their role in control and efficiency. This week, we take a detail look into the components of a successful transformation. Once the impediments to a firm’s financial process are understood, a targeted remediation effort can be constructed. Depending on […]