Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations are adopting cloud-based workloads at a significant pace. A 2017 HIMSS study found that 65% of Healthcare organizations were using cloud-based services, and nearly 88% of those organizations were utilizing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions, which have become the preferred deployment method for many clinical application vendors.

As easy as it is to get swept up by the hype surrounding big data, it’s just as easy for organizations to become discouraged by the challenges they encounter while implementing a big data initiative. Concerns regarding big data skill sets (and the lack thereof), security, the unpredictability of data, unsustainable costs, and the need to make a business case […]

“Big data” is an idea as much as a particular methodology or technology, yet it’s an idea that is enabling powerful insights, faster and better decisions, and even business transformations across many industries. In general, big data can be characterized as an approach to extracting insights from very large quantities of structured and unstructured data from varied sources at a […]

Cloud computing offers compelling benefits for organizations in the fields of Healthcare and Life Sciences, but organizations that are new to the cloud often have questions about compliance and regulatory requirements. “How can I use the cloud and comply with requirements for handling electronic Protected Health Information (PHI)?” “How can I validate regulated systems running in the cloud?” “How do […]

Agility is vital to modern biopharma marketing teams. To raise brand awareness in a competitive industry, teams need to quickly roll out websites, mobile applications and sales tools. The cloud is ideally suited to these tasks. Adopters of the cloud are now realizing it is also the foundation of a more dynamic, interactive form of marketing that uses real-time information […]

Theories about the future impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on business and society are everywhere. But the reality on the ground today among the companies and leaders applying technologies such as machine and deep learning to their core challenges is exciting enough. Business models are being reformed around the insight springing from powerful cognitive capabilities. New products and services are […]

When looking at the characteristics of the successful retailer of the future, you are hard-pressed to find a more important function than a consistently positive customer relationship across all the channels in which they want to shop. The modern consumer engages with retailers online via desktop, mobile and other channels as well as coming into stores. They assume that you […]

This document is intended to answer questions such as “How does AWS help me ensure that my data is secure?” Specifically, AWS physical and operational security processes are described for the network and server infrastructure under the management of AWS.