Posts Tagged ‘analytics’

  Now that June is here, I thought it would be neat to look back at what our readers found most interesting last month. Below are the top five blog posts Perficient’s life sciences practice wrote in May – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. 

If you read the trade journals for hospitals and health systems, you are reading about cost transformation and cost management. That said, I think this really means different things to different people. In fact, I hear people say “cost” often when in fact they mean “expense”. This minor exchange of words really changes the subject. […]

We examine SCD Type I and Type II here. Overview of Kettle transformation Here is overview of transformation. It will be loaded from excel source file and loaded into database.

My years of working with transactional systems helps me really appreciate the age old question of “how to get data out?” My curiosity about using data to gain actionable business insights started with the first computer program I ever developed. It was a natural progression of my problem-solving skills. I was involved with building transformational […]

  As you may have read in our most recent “cloud fact or fiction” post, we confirmed that companies have the ability to perform system administration activities for solutions hosted in the cloud. Let’s now tackle configurations and customizations. 

In this blog we will talk about how to implement various types of slowly changing dimensions (SCDs) with Kettle in details. And I will introduce the examination of SCD Type I and Type II in Part2. Types of Slowly Changing Dimensions Following Kimball, we distinguish two main types of slowly changing dimensions: Type I, Type […]

  It’s not uncommon for sponsors and CROs to perform version upgrades on their clinical and safety systems or move away from certain ones altogether. They’ve been doing it for years. But why, when it impacts so many different parts of a company, both operationally and financially? The answer is relatively simple: Because what’s at […]

  I recently stumbled upon the picture on the right on LinkedIn and it reminded me of a conversation that I had with my mother, who is an architect by trade. She told me that many roads came to be what they are today, not by well-thought-out plans, but rather by people and animals getting […]

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  I have a thing for listening in on earnings calls, as I often hear interesting tidbits from executives about their businesses. On a recent call, I found it fascinating to hear the CEO of a biopharmaceutical company specifically address the progress they’re making on one of their clinical trials. He literally got down to […]

  In our last “cloud fact or fiction” post, we discussed the ability to migrate clinical and pharmacovigilance data to the cloud. Let’s jump right in and talk about system integrations in the cloud. Claim #7: Clinical trial software in the cloud cannot be integrated with other systems. 

Almost every type of ETL tool has its extract and load strategy with its configurations. In general the user should be concentrated in full load (aka initial load) and incremental load options in whatever tools to utilize. Oracle BI Apps component provides straightforward options to let developer configure appropriate approaches to achieve data load in […]