SharePoint makes great use of its Search engine and it is pervasive throughout most SharePoint solutions today. Whether you are building Content Search WebParts leveraging Display Templates or creating a custom Search center you will be making use of SharePoint’s powerful and mature Search engine. However, what happens when things behave unexpectedly? How can you […]
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It’s Time To Send Your IT Hassles To Someone Else [VIDEO]
The other day, I was watching Cory Johnson interview Bryson Koehler, CTO and CIO of The Weather Company, on Bloomberg West. While the talk focused on The Weather Company’s business model, I thought several points during the discussion were quite relevant to life sciences companies. Frankly, they’re applicable to most industries. The Weather Channel, which […]
How Many Environments Do You REALLY Need?
A couple of weeks ago, a client of ours discovered a problem in the production (PROD) environment of one of their clinical systems. In the initial system implementation, they had opted for a single environment (without a sandbox, development, training, test, or validation environment), so they found themselves with no separate environment in which to […]
Millennials Want to Manage Wealth Relationships Digitally
This morning I got to work and went through my usual routine of catching up on the news online, posting articles on social media, and taking a quick scan of my Facebook feed. One particular Facebook post from one of my younger friends caught my attention. He and his wife recently adopted a child and […]
Branding Siebel CTMS To Match Your Company’s Look And Feel [VIDEO]
We’re all users of software. Put us in front of two systems – one that looks outdated and unorganized, and one that looks good and structurally makes sense – and I bet you’d gravitate to the latter one. In fact, although I didn’t conduct a poll, I’m sure we’d all choose the latter. It’s not […]
Personalized Medicine In A Nutshell (Or Shall I Say Capsule?)
I recently heard a segment on the radio about personalized medicine. Or “translational medicine.” Or “translational research.” Or “precision medicine.” Whatever you want to call it! Dr. Murray Feingold, a pediatrician and geneticist in the Boston area, painted a clear description of the term. He put it in words that all of us can understand. […]
Office 365 and Salesforce: Integration Case Study Part II
Given the central role that Office 365 occupies for more and more businesses, integration of the resources managed by Office 365 with other services is a challenge that Perficient often addresses for clients. The good news is that the Office 365 platform and the architecture of many other, key platforms provide countless integration possibilities, many […]
Canada’s New “Vanessa’s Law” Contains New Adverse Event Reporting Requirements
On November 6, 2014, Canada passed Vanessa’s Law, a new piece of legislation designed to protect patients from unsafe drugs and medical devices. The law comes after many complaints from citizens that the country wasn’t doing enough to oversee the safety of products sold in the marketplace or the clinical trials being conducted in the […]
What is Your Big Data Strategy…?
Big Data is big deal. Every vendor has a strategy and a suite of products. Navigating the maze and picking the right Big Data platform and tools takes some level of planning and looking beyond techie’s dream product suite. Compounding the issue is the open source option vs. going with a vendor version of the […]
Cloud Fact Or Fiction: Is Hosting Your Clinical Trial Software In The Cloud Expensive?
In my colleague’s last “cloud fact or fiction” post, he confirmed that clinical trial, clinical data, and safety systems can be implemented faster in the cloud than on-site because a vendor’s data centers, servers, and templates are ready for use by companies with strict regulatory and compliance guidelines. Today, I’ll discuss implementation costs. Claim #2: Clinical […]
Using ARX’s CoSign to Digitally Sign PDF Documents [VIDEO]
Digitally signing documents is easier than you might think. It’s also much faster than having to print, sign, and scan them. And, of course, there’s a significant cost-savings for companies that frequently mail and store hardcopy documents. A product like CoSign can be a great solution for companies, especially those in highly-regulated industries that require […]
Expanding Data Loss Prevention Across Office 365
Continuing from my previous post on Information Rights Management (IRM), today we will focus our discussion at yet another security feature which is essentially part of customer controls, known as Data Loss Prevention aka DLP. DLP provides users with policy tips and detects sensitive information in the context of communication. DLP was first rolled out […]