Posts Tagged ‘IT’

  Key findings in a new Gartner report showed that cloud computing is likely to grow 16.5% in 2016, reaching $204 billion in spending. According to Sid Nag, director, cloud technologies at Gartner Research, “The market for public cloud services is continuing to demonstrate high rates of growth across all markets and Gartner expects this […]

Digital strategy services firms can expect both their business and the demand for their skills to grow rapidly through the rest of this decade, according to IDC Research. The global market research and analysis company released its findings from a study that predicts digital-related consulting will be central to 80 percent of all business and […]

Reading a recent LinkedIn Pulse post from Genentech’s VP of IT Americas, Cindy Elkins, made me smile. She said so many good things. Cindy discussed the IT landscape at the company, arguably the most famous biotech (ever!), and how the IT organization impacts employees and patients on many different levels. 

A few years ago Adrian Cockcroft, cloud architect at Netflix at the time, posted this blog which caused quite a stir among the IT community. It described how Netflix had almost done away with DevOps (or even plain Ops) using the cloud (AWS in this case) to come up with yet another new IT buzzword called NoOps. Many […]

  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 […]

  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?

Validation. Admit it – you cringed a little. It’s almost like a dirty word in our industry. That thing that slows down system implementations. That thing that adds a bunch of time and cost to IT projects. That annoying, but necessary, evil. Well, okay, it’s not really “evil,” per say. It is, after all, designed […]

The life sciences industry is up against some incredibly high standards from regulatory agencies worldwide – with good reason – so it makes sense that we, in turn, have incredibly high expectations of our vendors, especially IT. Because we have to be able to show complete traceability in our work, we need our software vendors […]

It’s no secret that validation can be a bear. All of that documentation and testing, the multiple phases with pesky transition gates, a million reviews and approvals…it can really slow down an IT project, which often leads to questions about why on Earth we bother with it. Well, it all traces back to rules and regulations […]

As 2014 comes to a close, a few last-minute accolades are being awarded. I recently wrote about BioPharm, a life sciences-focused IT consulting company that Perficient acquired in April 2014, being named to Inc. Magazine’s 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the United States for 2014. Just yesterday, we received word that BioPharm was named to […]

It’s been a while since I realized that my life was a little different than everyone else’s, I began to notice certain abilities and features that set me apart from the rest; a power so great that I began to concern those around me, fortunately I discovered that I was not alone, there were others […]

You’ve decided that your organization is ready for marketing automation. But where to begin? Your first task is to assemble a team that will be responsible for the selection, implementation, and adoption of your marketing automation solution. Throughout the process of assembling of your team, you will likely play the role of evangelist to help […]