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Instead of opting to accept Apple Pay or Android Pay, Walmart has decided to launch its own payment service called Walmart Pay. The largest retailer in the world describes Walmart Pay as “a fast, easy and secure way for customers to pay with their smartphones in Walmart stores,” and it is compatible with both iOS […]

Linkedin Pulse had a great article on a recent Gallup Survey showing employee engagement improving by 2% over the past three years. Here’s the incredible market wide statistic: only 32.1% of employees are engaged. That means 67.9% of employees aren’t engaged. While I cannot do the entire article justice (it’s one of the more informative articles […]

Linkedin Pulse had a great article on a recent Gallup Survey showing employee engagement improving by 2% over the past three years. Here’s the incredible market wide statistic: only 32.1% of employees are engaged. That means 67.9% of employees aren’t engaged. While I cannot do the entire article justice (it’s one of the more informative articles […]

It’s been a busy year in the Enterprise Information Systems space. With over 75 posts this year, our in-house experts found themselves face to face with big changes and an abundance of great information to share. We sifted through that content and present to you the Top 10 EIS posts of 2015.   Ten | […]

  Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is getting even more serious in our industry. Earlier this week, the company introduced its life sciences organization as Verily. It was previous known as Google Life Sciences. According to STAT, the new company name means “truly” or “certainly,” referencing Verily’s CEO and former chief scientific officer of LabCorp Andy […]

The American Financial Technology Awards were announced on Monday evening in New York. A full-write up of the award winners will be forthcoming, but here is the list of the leaders in financial technology for 2015: Best Global Deployment – Nomura Securities Best Risk Management Initiative – Citadel Best Analytics Initiative – The Northern Trust […]

  Earlier this year, I highlighted how Penn Medicine is leveraging IT to support their patient care and precision medicine programs. Several weeks ago, Oracle and Penn Medicine held a joint webinar in which the academic medical center discussed their overall IT landscape. 

According to a 2015 Oracle survey of CFOs, the need for cloud-based performance management solutions continues to grow. Sixty-five percent of the finance executives surveyed listed the primary motivation for choosing a cloud-based EPM solution was to get up and running quickly. Fifty-three percent respondents said their primary motivation was to avoid large upfront investments […]

  Perficient’s Life Sciences practice regularly monitors the software release notes for several Oracle Health Sciences applications, as well as our own clinical and safety systems. The systems covered in our review are: 

If you’re an optimist, the best advice always seems to be forward-focused. Set goals for the future. Never look back. Who wants to dwell on the past, right? But after years of working in a team setting in both marketing and technology, I’ve learned the best way to improve is to look back. If you set aside […]

  Now that December is here, I thought it would be neat to look back at what our readers found most interesting last month. Below are the top five blog posts Perficient’s life sciences practice wrote in November – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. 

  Last month, Perficient attended the Oracle OpenWorld conference and presented at several sessions. One of those sessions was on how clinical trial management systems (CTMS) can support risk-based monitoring (RBM) strategies at life sciences companies.