SharePoint 2010 in a Cloud

OK. We've got an RTM of SharePoint 2010 running in a cloud technology.

Now what?

InfoPath Forms Server Limitations

There are a few things in the InfoPath web based forms that are less than wonderful. A few. One of them is that large forms or forms with lots of logic will time out and cannot be published as web forms. OK. So your people have the client. Well, if these forms are taken down to the desktop from SharePoint it can take a couple of minutes to download. Literally. So large forms and complex forms are basically out in 2007. It is said that this limitation is not present in SharePoint IPFS 2010.

The definition of large or lots of logic is grey but I've found that while I was able to publish 875 KB form to web when I added some logic and brought it up to 1.2 MB It could not be published as a web form. Likewise, I did some tests on the logic piece and had 100 controls with perhaps 5 rules per control and that couldn't be published either. Not hard and fast so you will have to do your own testing to determine if your forms will make the web grade or not. I guess the point is there is a limit to how large or complex an InfoPath form can be when uploading to SharePoint as a Web form and it is inherent and immutably part of InfoPath forms server 2007.

iPhone meet SharePoint. SharePoint meet iPhone.

""Pleased to meet you.""

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'nuf said

vaCTMS: The Mother of All Clinical Trial Portals

Having recently returned from a CBI conference in Philadelphia entitled the inaugural, 1^st ever "Investigator Portals something…" I'm convinced more than ever that by some happy accident VA (that's the Department of Veterans Affairs) has been sitting on the Holy Grail, Mother of All Clinical Trial Portals since 2003 and doesn't even realize it. It's like dusting off a DaVinci from a yard sale. Except this one still's got the dust on it. Paul Bleicher (ya gotta like this guy) of PhaseForward fame journaled a while back that it will be some years before industry comes up with a truly paperless trial management system with fully integrated EDC/CTMS. Well Paul, I'm here to tell you, it's been sitting under your nose since 2003 and if it was a snake, it would have bit all of us.

"The System" is affectionately referred to as the vaCTMS. Clever. VA is looking to transfer this technology so they can make some noise, "benefiting veterans through research". I agree that it can and will do everything possible to make this happen.

So to get a piece of this territory before the shark feed all you've got to do is pick up the phone and dial david.rose@va.gov.

Word.

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BACUN Fall 2009 Meeting Debriefing

The Boston Area CDISC User Network Fall 2009 Meeting Report

Sue Dubman's BACUN meeting held at Genzyme, Boston was an eye opener. Stephen J Ruberg PhD of Lilly went on about the slow pace of standardizing terminologies within the current CDISC "operational data model." That, volunteer teams that meet twice a month to plod through a particular medical/research domain to come up with common terms. He gave an example of the TB domain which took 18 months to determine some 80 or so standard terms to be used when defining TB related studies. That's not going to keep up with the new terms/concepts developed each minute in the scientific literature, much less define scientific concepts from the last million years of civilization. At least not in my lifetime. Useless. Shame too, because as Stephen pointed out, industry would like to have these standards. After all, we all agree it's a good idea. Trouble is, CDISC has taken the lead on this and they're not getting it done. He offered an "alternative?" ODM for getting this done. He also pointed out that Lilly has started their own repositories of terms, forms and such and has defined them in the latest CDISC spreadsheet style and he welcomes anyone interested to participate in adding or taking from their homespun repository. They used Formedix's ODM designer tool for the job. Mark Wheeldon, CEO? Of Formedix pointed out that this data is available on Codeplex somewhere. Have at it.

CDISC is Wonderful

It's nice having a standardized data structure we can count on. Forget about data interchange, I like it because its easier to create interoperable tools for working with the data. This then helps us leverage other's work/tools to extend our own toolset in one big glorious metric/CDSIC based toolshed world. So HL7 can just go away, please. I don't want to start this whole toolmaking thing over. Besides, HL7 is a U.S. thing and that's just not working for me anymore. We've got our standard. Leave us alone.

please