Operations

  Risk-based monitoring (RBM) continues to be a hot topic among sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) for a variety of reasons, including the time- and cost-savings it can offer, as well as its ability to help keep patients safe. Last week, Ashok Ghone, Ph.D., vice president of global services at MakroCare USA, wrote a […]

  According to IBM, we generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. And, 90% of the data that exists today, whether found in your clinical systems, on social media, or on your mobile devices, has been gathered within the last two years. All of that is what we call “big data.” As the volume […]

  Outside of work, it’s obvious that we have become a digital society. We use mobile devices to guide us through rush hour traffic, to find a great new spot for lunch, to research recipes for dinner, to do our shopping, to track our exercise, to entertain our children (and ourselves!), to connect with friends […]

Enterprise Design in EBS is one of the first things you tackle when beginning a new client engagement. It will likely include chart of accounts design, number of business groups, ledgers, legal entities, operating units (OU), and inventory organizations. This document will brush lightly on a few of these areas but will focus primarily on […]

The intent of this document is provide the reader with a fundamental understanding of Oracle’s Secondary Ledgers, enriched with lessons learned from actual implementations. Matt Makowsky is an Oracle Financial Applications Consultant with 17 years experience and a Senior Solutions Architect with Perficient. Feel free to ask him any questions in the comments section below the […]

  So, one of my spunky co-workers, who happens to be the prolific blogger behind www.adviceformydaughter.com, shared this on Facebook: “My daughter wants to use her Christmas money to buy a diabetes kit, just like daddy’s, for her American Girl Doll. It makes me happy that she will understand this part of his life a […]

  In case you missed the headlines, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan got the best Thanksgiving gift ever last year – their daughter. Her name is Max. The proud parents wrote a breathtaking letter to her, sharing images of the world she lives in today and what they hope Max grows up to see. Just […]

Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a great option for SharePoint Server deployments for those use cases and/or organizations where SharePoint Online is not appropriate or sufficient.  IaaS can be used for dev/test scenarios or a part of a production, cloud-based infrastructure. With SharePoint Server 2016, deployment without Active Directory is no longer supported;  Active Directory is […]

The intent of this document is provide the reader with a fundamental understanding of Oracle’s Cross Validation Rules, enriched with lessons learned from actual implementations.  Matt Makowsky is an Oracle Financial Applications Consultant with 17 years experience and a Senior Solutions Architect with Perficient.  Feel free to ask him any questions in the comments section below […]

  I really don’t like carrying cash. And, the only reason I do is because that’s all my barber accepts. I prefer using digital money. Huh, digital money? According to Investopedia, digital money is “any means of payment that exists purely in electronic form.” In other words, think of digital money as using any payment […]

  Today, January 12, 2016, Microsoft is ceasing support for Internet Explorer 8. If you’re a Siebel Clinical user, that news probably made your stomach drop, since IE8 is the highest version of Internet Explorer that works with Siebel pre-8.1.1.9. What does that mean for those of you running old versions of Siebel? Well, you […]

  According to Dr. Stephen M. Ostroff, FDA Acting Commissioner, and Dr. John K. Jenkins, Director of the Office of New Drugs in FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, over 40 novel drugs were approved in 2015. The FDA’s website indicates the exact number as 45, which is slightly higher than the previous year and […]