Operations

As Master Data Management matures and becomes a standard application within the enterprise architecture landscape, variations of cloud offerings are slowly emerging. Many companies are not even aware of these solution offerings. You can broadly classify the types of cloud offerings into 3 categories. There are key advantages and disadvantages in pursuing these architectures. The […]

Pretty bad and pretty funny. That’s how I’d summarize what the websites looked like for these 13 biopharma, medical device, and research organizations when they first made their mark on the World Wide Web. In honor of Throwback Thursday, we used Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to poke fun at the companies many of us have come to […]

In numerous client engagements, we have witnessed that Data Quality (DQ) is a never-ending battle. At many companies,  IT fixes and re-fixes the data rather than develop solutions and manage applications. DQ is not confined to IT, but maintaining that quality requires effort from all data users, especially those at the business end. Building a […]

In the Big Data world Lambda architecture created by Nathan Marz is a standard technique applied to solve many predictive analytics problems. This architecture effectively delivers the streaming data and batch data to combine the past information with the current changes, producing a comprehensive platform for predictive framework. Lambda Architecture On a very high generic […]

Last week, I posted part one of our Power BI Primer series discussing access and basic administration. This week we’re bringing you Part Two. If you are an Office365 customer, then you have almost certainly heard about (if not seen) Power BI. The cloud-based analytics and collaboration platform from Microsoft has some pretty amazing features, […]

As I mentioned in my earlier post, building the vision for Data Governance happens through multiple meetings, interactions and discussions at various levels. Depending on the company culture and type of industry, progress may end up being faster or slower. Leadership in building the awareness and linking the business issues which can be solved through […]

It’s probably a safe assumption that your organization made the switch to an electronic document management system (e.g., SharePoint, Office 365, Documentum, Alfresco, NextDocs, eDOCs DM) some time ago. Take a few minutes and think back on the underlying reasons for that investment. I’m sure the list you came up with includes things like keeping […]

Is your SharePoint environment painfully slow? Are you experiencing long page load times? Does your search results take forever to load? If so, you may be interested in my upcoming webinar – 10 Steps to Optimize SharePoint. This comprehensive webinar, put on jointly with our partners at Metalogix, will cover: Identifying the common problem areas affecting SharePoint […]

Today, Perficient announced it has been working with Partners In Health, a Boston-based nonprofit that delivers high-quality health care and serves impoverished communities around the world, from Haiti to Rwanda to Siberia, to deploy Office 365 at cost. From the Press Release: Founded in 1987, Partners In Health works to strike at the root causes […]

Are your children participating in the largest learning event in history next week? From December 8-12, many schools will be participating in the Hour of Code during Computer Science Education Week. The idea behind the Hour of Code is to introduce students to computer science and show them how easy coding can be through fun, game-based coding […]

I have worked on a few clinical applications where adding little functions to existing applications can greatly improve an individual’s job function and subsequently benefit the company as a whole. Looking for these little gems isn’t time consuming or difficult as long as we are aware of the system’s capabilities and are able to capitalize […]

A lot has been said and written about Data Governance (DG) and the importance of having one. However it is still a mystery for many companies to create an effective DG. Based on our experience majority of the companies in their early stages of DG fall into one of these areas: Had too many false […]