Operations

  While we work in an industry in which we aim to treat patients, rich or poor, we live in a world where money is often deemed king. And, with an influx of financial investments pouring into newer pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, people are jumping ship more than ever, making it harder for big pharma […]

Mazen just previewed What to Expect Next on BICS and now it is in the process of being released.  The first thing you’ll notice is the new clean and concise consumer-style user experience.  Site navigation and the Home page has changed dramatically as you can see in the screen shot below (the compass next to the user’s name brings up […]

I had the opportunity to attend SharePoint TechFest Houston last week and was duly impressed with the level of continued interest in SharePoint as a platform and the future of the product. Here are a few takeaways from the conference: To kick things off, Synxi CTO Naomi Moneypenny delivered the keynote address focusing on the […]

  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: 

Last week, Oracle released version 12c of OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition). There are several features that are new to 12c, among which is the UI which has now been updated to become more modern compared to the prior 11g interface. The most interesting feature that has been added is the new Data Visualization […]

  Thanks to one of my LinkedIn contacts, I was introduced to a newly released “scorecard” that ranks pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies based on their precision medicine efforts. In essence, the organizations who made the cut are the ones moving precision medicine forward. They’re the ones focused on leveraging biomarkers to develop new therapies. 

  On October 15, 2015, my colleague, Kathryn Hanson, presented a webinar on the topic of clinical data warehousing. She provided a high-level overview of the challenges that life sciences companies face when it comes to technology, in particular with the acquisition and management of data (e.g., patient/subject, trial management, safety) from different systems and […]

“Retailers are light years ahead of Wall Street in analyzing their data to find out what their customers want,” said to Peter Giordano, managing director at Oppenheimer & Co. “Instead of analyzing customer data, the industry still relies on salespeople, relationships and actual trades to tell us what clients want.” Big data might be a […]

This blog deals with  Global Organizational Data needs where there is insufficient window of non-Business hours to run heavy batch loads and at the same time a provision to access the data 24 hours with  negligible or no interference. Why 24 hours availability is needed? Organizations have a high need for 24 hour availability of […]

  Academic research organizations (AROs) and academic medical centers (AMCs) are university-based institutions that conduct scientific research and play a vital role in the development of new drugs and medical devices. Historically, the majority of the research performed by AROs and AMCs has been funded by government divisions like the National Institutes of Health (NIH). […]

Although OOW15 is getting all the headlines, including the announcement of OBIEE 12c (more info to come), Oracle has announced two new Patch Set Updates (PSU) for OBIEE 11g. OBIEE 11.1.1.7.1 Bundle Patch 11.1.1.7.151020  is available for Windows64, Linux32 and Linux64; this document details the installation and bug fixes. OBIEE 11.1.1.9 Bundle Patch 11.1.1.9.5 is available […]

  This struck me as interesting: The Boston Globe wrote an article on how doctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) are encouraged to share medical errors. In fact, they are asked to do so, knowing that the information will be published in a case study-like format for the public to see. The objective is […]