Operations

In several OSC (Oracle Sales Cloud) based application, there comes a requirement where a currency value needs to be formatted according to the currency format of the locale. In general Groovy compiler supports NumberFormat abstract class which can be called as NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance() which returns the formatted object. This simple method-call will convert the given number […]

  Ed Miseta, Chief Editor of Clinical Leader, recently interviewed Mike McKay, Associate Director of Operational Excellence for Shire Pharmaceuticals, on his view of the clinical IT space and how it’s affecting his company. Here are several takeaways from his interview: 

Apache HBase™ is the Hadoop database: a distributed, scalable, big data store. If you are importing into a new table, you can bypass the HBase API and write your content directly to the filesystem, formatted into HBase data files (HFiles). Your import will run much faster. There are several ways to load data from HDFS to HBase. I […]

  Let’s face it, anything with “99+” in the title is catchy. That’s why we used it for our upcoming 99+ Siebel CTMS Best Practices You Should Follow webinar. We wanted you to know how content-rich the webinar will be, whether you’re a current user of Oracle’s clinical trial management system (CTMS) or in the […]

  Let’s face it: Keeping clinical trials on schedule is not easy to do. Whether a sponsor runs into issues with quality, timeline, personnel, or myriad other things with an outsourced partner, it’s crucial to address the problems as soon as they’re identified. There are a few routes a sponsor can take when a study […]

Whether it’s internal changes based on re-organization or business lines, or external requirements including new regulations, corporate finance teams need robust solutions that delivering information more quickly and accurately than ever. Employing up-to-date applications, including cloud-based solutions, can be the most effective way for companies to leverage functionality that meets the latest financial reporting challenges. […]

  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: 

The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Conference is off to an exciting start! The Perficient team is in Las Vegas this week to present our solutions for the Legal industry including our partnership with Microsoft on the new Matter Center for Office 365. Matter Center was built for Microsoft’s own Legal and Corporate Affairs group […]

  One question we often get relates to disabling Oracle Clinical (OC) and Remote Data Capture (RDC) accounts. What happens to the OC/RDC accounts of users who separate from a company or roll off of a clinical trial? The answer is relatively simple, though not necessarily obvious, because the only way to tell if an […]

  While pharmaceutical companies are still trying to figure out whether they should partner with companion diagnostic makers, acquire them, or simply begin developing their own tests, one thing remains certain: companion diagnostics are here to stay. 

If you’ve attended a recent Oracle EPM conference, you are likely aware that Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) has been the most successful cloud launch in Oracle’s history. That success has been fueled by many factors, including perceived difficulties with the predecessor to PBCS, Hyperion Planning. As of this writing, Oracle claims over […]

Although the title Data Scientist is not mentioned as often as other IT job titles, it has been in the IT world for a while and is becoming more important with the popularity of the Internet and eCommerce. What kind of skills should a data scientist have? It could be a long list, but I […]