In our new guide, we discuss the background of the SEC’s Investment Company Reporting Modernization Rules and the potential effects on individual financial institutions. While you can check out the full guide here, the snippet below shares some of deadlines that the new rules present. Form N-PORT If you are a larger entity with net […]
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Investment Company Reporting Modernization Goals & Expectations
In a new guide, we discuss the background of the SEC’s Investment Company Reporting Modernization Rules and the potential effects on individual financial institutions. The snippet below shares the rules’ objectives and expectations. The SEC wants to improve: The quality of information that funds report to the Commission The Commission’s risk monitoring and oversight, examination, […]
[Guide] SEC Investment Company Reporting Modernization
In an effort to increase transparency, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted new rules and amendments, called Investment Company Reporting Modernization Rules, which require registered investment companies to modernize their reporting and disclosures. While many investment managers have started their journey towards compliance, others have struggled. The new requirements can be daunting for […]
QA Solutions for SharePoint Upgrades
On our Optimized Global Delivery blog, Cathy Zhang reviews QA solutions for SharePoint upgrades: As SharePoint gets stronger and stronger, SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2016 have more new features and abilities. Enterprise can provide more functionality to business users with less customization and at a lower cost. According to the upgrading solutions, QA strategy needs […]
Sitecore Symposium 2017: Improve Testing in Sitecore
This session was lead by Brain Beckham and Viktoria Shostak from Brain Jocks. They talked about the typical way code moves from developer to integration to QA testing. They demonstrated how it is possible to end-up with an unstable release branch and proposed an alternative. Here are my notes from the session: What is Functional […]
Recap: CA Webinar on Automating APIs for Real Testing Acceleration
We all know that organizations are becoming more focused on the ability to more quickly release applications. Service virtualization is one way to address bottlenecks in the development lifecycle and enable scalability through virtualized testing capabilities. Today, we presented on a webinar with CA, Automate your APIs for Real Testing Acceleration. Ronda Kiser-Oakes, Perficient’s DevOps […]
Webinar: Automate Your API Testing with CA
Register Today! Application construction and delivery best practices are key to having a successful go-to market strategy, especially when built with APIs, microservices, and other integration solutions. If you’re serious about changing the way you change your processes, CA and Perficient can show you how you can automate your APIs and create real ROI with […]
How I Fought a Common Cliché in the IT Industry
In the world and today’s society, there are many clichés; I think clichés can be some of the most hurtful things as they prevent us from knowing a new person with different nationality, religion, skin color, or different musical taste. At the end of the day, we are just people who do the same things, […]
The Final Frontier: Paper-Based Validation Testing
As a big fan of efficiency, it pains me that most of us in life sciences still execute validation testing with pen and paper, present company included. All of those poor trees. All of that hand-cramping. All of that scanning. All of those migraine-inducing QA reviews in which we’re squeezing scanned test cases into […]
FDA Warning Letter For Shared Passwords (And Other Offenses)
On December 17, 2015, the FDA issued a warning letter to Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. in Gujarat, India. Sun Pharma’s website boasts that it is the “World’s 5th Largest Specialty Generic Pharmaceutical Company” with over 2,000 products in more than 150 markets across the globe. When an organization that large winds up with a […]
This Recent FDA Warning Letter Shows You Exactly Why Quality Matters
“Quality, quality, quality.” You hear it all the time from your QA colleagues. There are so many forms to fill out, trainings to complete, procedures to read and follow, and internal audits to produce records for. Sometimes, it’s so overwhelming that we’re tempted to just tune it out. That is, until we read an FDA Warning […]
Bug Tracking Systems Aren’t Just For Bugs
Here in Perficient’s life sciences practice, we use a defect tracking system as part of our application development process. It helps us keep track of bugs and resolutions as we develop and test, but there’s nothing particularly remarkable about it…except that we use it for another purpose too: to track problems with our QA controlled […]