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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How Software Vendors Can Survive The Life Sciences IT Gauntlet
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 […]
Testing Jimmy John’s Responsive Redesign: Lessons Learned from a QA Engineer
Enlighten was acquired by Perficient Digital in December 2015 When Enlighte (now Perficient Digital) embarked on a redesign project for Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches, it was a little bit daunting. It would be a massive undertaking, with Enlighten leading other vendors in combining multiple sites and platforms into a unified user experience for a brand […]
Center of Excellence – Solution Assessments
The goal of a Practice Center of Excellence (CoE) Solution Assessment is to conduct an impartial review of a particular component (or components) of an identified solution or architecture or to address a particular application design pattern strategy concern. The assessment team will identify the purpose and scope of the assessment prior to beginning the […]
Testing Web APIs for Mobile and Cloud
In this blog post I examine the methods and tools to test APIs for mobile and cloud. Post on The SOA Blog
Protecting Sensitive Data in a Multi-Shoring Development Environment
As more and more companies are “going global” to grow their business and share more data with more users, it is extremely important to secure data privacy and confidentiality. Perficient’s latest free whitepaper, Protecting Sensitive Data in a Multi-Shoring Development Environment, outlines a method for securing tremendous amounts of sensitive data. Highlights from this whitepaper […]