Operations

Technology is affording us the ability to do more with less every single day. In fact, as consumers, we’re able to do more with less, every single day, from anywhere.  In an highly electronic world, e-commerce companies are harkening us back to the old “Name That Tune” game show, priding themselves on how few clicks […]

  Sponsors are known to work with multiple contract research organizations (CROs). And, depending on the agreement in place with each CRO, data can be captured in either the sponsor’s systems (CDMS and/or EDC) or the CRO’s. If the data is stored in CRO databases, there may come a time when it needs to be […]

In terms of real-time messaging or event analytics on the distributed node, we think of Storm and Kafka, both famous Apache projects. Storm has been used in Twitter’s production for many years, so it proves to be powerful. On June 4, Twitter shared news that the company developed a new system called Heron to handle […]

The journey of discovery continues. I can report a successful install of Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.9 on Microsoft Windows 2012 R2, but I encountered one last bug and set of supplemental instructions worth sharing. During the Configuration Progress step of the Enterprise Install the “Setting Up BI Publisher” step never completed. From the screenshot below you […]

  What do you do when the largest contract research organization (CRO) in the world agrees to appear in a video promoting several products? You watch, of course! Quintiles recently recorded a video that features the company’s president of clinical development discussing their use of Oracle Health Sciences solutions, such as Siebel Clinical Trial Management […]

Installing any commercial software on a newly certified operating system often leads to a journey of discovery. In this case, Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.9 installed on Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 raises an alarming error during the installation process. The crash warning above occurred during an Enterprise Install on a freshly built Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 […]

I would like to follow up on John Whitaker’s post, OBIEE 11.1.1.9.0: What You Need to Know, by adding a note about an important patch that was released on June 3, 2015. Using an external security provider with Oracle Business Intelligence is increasingly common. When configuring Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, or other 3rd party authentication provider it […]

How many times have you put off doing something that you should do because there was no sense of urgency, and you thought you’d just get to it later?  If you’re like me, it happens all the time.  If we take a deeper look into why we don’t take action on those things, it’s because […]

  If you really think about it, it’s quite astonishing that Viagra sales in 2014 grew 47% in China, a country in which discussing sexual health-related topics has long been considered taboo. So, what caused this surge in sales?

Spark provides several ways for developer and data scientists to load, aggregate and compute data and return a result. Many Java or Scala developers would prefer to write their own application codes (aka Driver program) instead of inputting a command into the built-in spark shell or python interface. Below are some steps for how to quickly configure […]

  Last week we covered dashboards in Oracle’s Argus Safety. Today we’ll talk about Worklists. Worklists in the drug safety and pharmacovigilance system can be seen as the end-users task list for the day. While there are many Worklists to help organize a company’s users, today we will focus on two of the main ones, 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: