Rodney Kempler

This article is about Oriam's real-life experience of porting its Clinical Trials Management System, EC1-TrialManager, to the Web. The product, initially designed as a PowerBuilder/Oracle client/server application, contained more than 300 screens. The Goals The main objectives were: - From a business perspective: • No regression whatsoever between the Web and the original rich client/server application. • Provide new functionalities on the Web. • Build a flexible application that can be marketed with optional modules. • Address the security needs of the laboratories that are conducting studies in many countries and allow internal and external personnel collaborate through the Web. • Minimize the costs of implementing and updating the software. - From a technical/architecture perspective: • Security with access control based on roles. • ... (more)