Operations

Who owns the data we store in your service? Will you use our data to build advertising products? Do you offer privacy controls in your service? Do we have visibility to know where our data is stored? Can we get our data out of your service if we decide to leave? These questions are top […]

All great endeavors start with a question. In this case it’s the same question every business asks at some point regardless of their industry or position they occupy. How do we get better at what we do? This is as true for a software company as the business down the street that makes canoes. The […]

With the recent localized outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, much information and disinformation has made its way to the Internet and mainstreamed media outlets. Given the foggy haze of reality, I thought it would be helpful to publish a summary of important facts – as the science currently supports – about Ebola: how it […]

Four years after the signing of Dodd-Frank, financial services firms have a better understanding of both the challenges and potential benefits for their organization. While financial institutions are starting to get a better grip on Dodd-Frank reforms, one area where regulators are still coming to grips with and finalizing guidelines is incentive compensation. In fact, Section 956 was […]

Oracle’s Argus Safety is a comprehensive safety and pharmacovigilance platform designed to enable pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies, in addition to contract research organizations (CROs) and academic institutions (AROs) to focus on product safety and regulatory compliance. With the multi-tenancy feature in Argus Safety, CROs and AROs can provide services to multiple sponsors, while […]

One of the key points I make in our Executive Big Data Workshops is that effective use of Big Data analytics will require transforming both business and IT organizations.   Big Data with access to cross-functional data will transform the strategic processes within a company that guide long term and year to year investments. With the […]

My recent trip to a new client in Hull, United Kingdom, reminded me of a Harvard Business Review management tip that is hard to argue. It conveyed three ways to start your client relationship right to ensure success: Make an accurate first impression. Make them feel comfortable, but also set clear expectations about what you can […]

Are you interested in cloud services, but aren’t quite ready to move all your data to a public, multi-tenant environment? Do you have a development or test environment that is costing you too much money to create/migrate/upgrade/maintain? Do you have a need to implement Disaster Recovery for your on premises SharePoint deployment? You may be interested to know that Microsoft Azure […]

A few years back I worked for a client that was implementing cell level security on every data structure within their data warehouse. They had nearly 1,000 tables and 200,000 columns — yikes! Talking about administrative overhead. The logic was that data access should only be given on a need-to-know basis. The idea would be […]

Imagine accidently deleting lots of production clinical data. What do you do? How do you recover? Those are the tough questions our client was recently faced with when one of their Oracle Clinical (OC) power users ran the Delete Study Information function in the system with the intention of deleting patient data for only a handful […]

In the Hadoop space we have a number of terms for the Hadoop File System used for data management. Data Lake is probably the most popular. I have heard it called a Data Refinery as well as some other not so mentionable names. The one that has stuck with me has been is the Data […]

The amount of time and money it takes for a drug or medical device to be developed and pushed to market is staggering and continues to grow. However, more often than not, once a product gets approved, the maker enjoys watching it flourish in the global marketplace for many years. Unfortunately, there are situations when […]