Posts Tagged ‘Oracle’

Now that August 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 July – they’re ranked in order of popularity, with number one being the most viewed piece. All You Need To Know […]

Starting in Siebel IP2013, a little known enhancement was introduced in Oracle’s clinical trial management system (CTMS): the ability to incorporate Siebel SmartScripts directly into trip reports. What are SmartScripts? According to Oracle’s official documentation, “Siebel SmartScript allows business analysts, call center managers, and Siebel developers to create scripts to define the application workflow for interactive customer communications. […]

Oracle Database Migration using Data Pump from an external server into an AWS EC2 instance or RDS You can use Oracle Data Pump for several scenarios in AWS: Import data from an Amazon EC2 instance with an Oracle database to an Oracle DB instance Import data from a database on an Oracle DB instance to […]

Docker is an open platform that gives customers the ability to deploy multiple o/s containers on any give host. This allows for the deployment of multiple environments without having to incur the overhead of having a virtual machine for each environment. Docker uses Linux o/s facilities like namespaces, groups and union capable file systems to […]

Hi everyone, it’s Indy here. For those of you who may not recognize my name, I’ve been helping lead our Argus Safety installations for the past few years. I wanted to drop a quick note to personally invite you to the webinar I’ll be presenting next week. It’ll be relatively short, by design, but it […]

Earlier, I wrote a blog post about the presentation (Complex Data Security Made Easy in Oracle BI) that I delivered at Kscope17. I used a typical use case from a marketing organization as to how complex data security like team and position based hierarchies can be implemented via four different approaches in Oracle BI. When […]

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: Oracle Systems Argus Safety Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) Thesaurus Management System (TMS) Perficient Systems ASCEND (Siebel CTMS) Generally speaking, we review release […]

A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog post on how to find and install the latest patchset release for Siebel IP2016. While we’re in the middle of 2017 and still waiting for IP2017 to be released, Oracle managed to sneak in another patch release for IP2016. Below are a couple of screenshots that […]

In the first part of this series we covered the purpose of versioning and how easy it is to create new versions to provide periodic snapshots of hierarchies. Today, we’re going to discuss the typical life cycle of a version. The following image will help illustrate the concept. When a version is first created, it […]

I spend much of my time figuring out what things organizations are doing well when it comes to their enterprise analytics, what makes them better, and how to get there. After a few communications consulting for a new customer, I came to realize that they are likely categorized in one of three groups, most if […]

When I’m approached by clients to discuss safety projects, it is generally about implementing Oracle’s Argus Safety, upgrading the system, or discussing their ability to comply with regulatory requirements. Recently, I was asked about migrating from a legacy drug safety database to Argus. We discussed the methods available, such as leveraging an Oracle dump, a […]

Oracle has announced some exciting changes coming to the EPM Cloud in the July to August time frame. If you are headed to Kscope 17 in San Antonio, Texas, be sure to attend the Sunday Symposium to catch Oracle’s live demo of cross-pod integration. What Is Cross-Pod Integration? When I use the term “pod,” I […]