Operations

The end of 2015 is fast approaching, with December looming just a week away. For most people, December is packed with the hustle and bustle of last-minute gift shopping, or end-of-year projections and budgets for 2016. Often in the sway of all this activity, many are so focused on the approaching New Year that they […]

When defining new projects, it’s common to gather stakeholders, brainstorm business requirements, and document every need you hope to address. But how will you know if you’ve hit your mark? What will be used to determine whether the project is actually a success? Here’s the key: think beyond traditional business requirements. Identify and document how you will […]

  The California Life Sciences Association released a new report that proves the Golden State, once again, is at the top of its game when it comes to life sciences. 

“The CPM suite market is shifting toward cloud-based solutions that deliver a shorter time to value and improved ease of use.” – Gartner If there’s any doubt that corporate performance management (AKA enterprise performance management, or EPM) has a future in the cloud, think again. Most of the buzz from industry and corporate events has […]

At a recent user conference, I was asked, “why do I need DRM in my organization?” A very interesting question with both a short and long answer. Let’s cover the short answer first… DRM (Data Relationship Management) provides organizations the ability to centralize the governance of enterprise dimensional master data while ensuring the data is […]

  Presidential debates. Daraprim. Martin Shkreli. Drug pricing is what everyone’s talking about. Dr. Joshua P. Cohen, a research associate professor at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, wrote an excellent article that breaks down how drug prices are determined. He also shared some key facts that support the notion of the […]

As a consumer, I like electronic payments because they make my life easier and they save me an extraordinary amount of time. As a retailer, electronic payments make it easier for people to buy from you with the touch of a button, thus growing the bottom line. Electronic payments are designed to make the buying […]

  HIT Consultant, a digital publication focused on healthcare technology, recently shared a report by Reed Smith on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in life sciences and how personalized medicine is playing an important role in many of today’s transactions. While pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies have not abandoned the “one-size-fits all” approach to developing drugs, many […]

  Param Singh, the director of Perficient’s clinical operations solutions team, was just presented with one of Perficient’s highest internal awards for leadership. The Soaring Eagle award recognizes leaders who rise to their own personal heights while inspiring others to do the same through support, encouragement, and the creation of opportunities for professional and career […]

We can use TableMapReduceUtil.initTableReducerJob and put the method in Hbase API, but we can also use doBulkLoad to load data to Hbase. In a previous post, I introduced using importtsv and completebulkload hbase shell command to load data to Hbase. In this post, I will introduce how to implement it by JAVA language. Advantage: Put method in […]

  In honor of Veterans Day, I thought it would be worth sharing a program that’s geared toward our beloved military veterans, yet helps society as a whole. 

  Every time I hear about precision medicine showing signs of effective disease treatment, I want to share it with you. Here’s one to add to the collection.