Operations

In today’s corporate America few executives and finance leaders fully grasp the benefits of developing an effective and streamlined corporate cost allocation process. Corporate allocations, when implemented correctly, can provide tremendous insights into the profitability of business segments, customers, and products. This knowledge can then help business unit leaders realign resources within the company, thereby […]

  Last week, Tammy Dutkin, our director of clinical data management and EDC, presented a webinar in which she discussed best practices for making post-production changes to Oracle Clinical and Remote Data Capture (RDC). If you missed it, you can watch the recording here. 

  We recently discussed the ability to access previously visited adverse event cases very quickly in Oracle’s safety and pharmacovigilance system, Argus Safety. For this post, we’ll cover a feature that many of our clients love. Argus Safety enables users to open multiple cases simultaneously, although it’s not possible to view both of the cases at […]

  While 6 medical device companies and 11 pharmaceutical organizations made the cut for this year’s Fortune 500 list, Quintiles (#476) was the only contract research organization (CRO) to make an appearance. With over $4 billion in revenue in 2014, this is Quintiles’ second year on the list. To see which pharma and biotech companies […]

SharePoint Governance is a topic everyone talks about, yet very few actually understand.  The confusion surrounding SharePoint Governance is well-rooted; for one, it’s an incredibly large set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that detail, literally, every aspect of how the SharePoint platform should be used.  For another, successful SharePoint Governance is only achieved when […]

  Eleven pharma and biotech companies appeared on this year’s Fortune 500 list. While there are additional organizations (e.g., Procter & Gamble) that manufacturer medicines on the list, they weren’t classified as pharmaceutical companies in the ranking. These are the drug companies that made this year’s list, ranked by total annual revenue: 

With the acquisition of Drawloop, we should expect to see additional capabilities added to Salesforce and Office 365 / SharePoint. In terms of Office 365 and SharePoint, Nintex is planning to add document generation (docGen) to the platform. And with SalesForce, we should see tighter coupling to the O365 space, and workflow and form automation […]

  The last post we wrote on Argus Safety features was about the system’s autocomplete functionality. Another great feature of Oracle’s safety and pharmacovigilance system is the ability to quickly go back to an adverse event case that you previously accessed. This can be done in just a couple of clicks from the menu, saving you […]

Implementing REST Adapter in Service Bus This article covers the implementation of REST adapter in Oracle Service Bus (12C). REST adapter allows an easy way of calling/exposing REST services based on a Web Application Description Language (WADL). In this implementation, we are going to call Weather API which is a public REST API by creating […]

In some aspects, the Spark engine is similar to Hadoop because both of them will do Map & Reduce over multiple nodes. The important concept in Spark is RDD (Resilient Distributed Datasets), by which we could operate over array, dataset and the text files. This example gives you some ideas on how to do map/reduce […]

Photo Credit: Maglara / Shutterstock.com My colleague, Beth Martin, wrote a great blog post today about the benefits of using Google Search for Work. What is Google Search for Work, you ask? Think of it as using Google to search the Internet, except that you search your company’s systems instead. Take a look at the infographic below, which […]

  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: