Articles by Ian Sparks

Mastering Matrices

Matrices are a clever feature of Medidata Rave which define a set of Folders (which often represent Subject Visits) and Forms to be added to the Subject schedule. It's typical to have several Matrices which will be applied either by a user adding them manually or by logic defined in …

Visualizing Study Design

As a Rave Study Designer you have limited options for visualizing a study design, especially a complex one. You can publish the study to a test environment and browse through the Folders and Forms but this is a view intended for users, not for Architects. As a Study Designer you …

Comparing Drafts

One of the features we have frequently been asked for is a way to compare Drafts so we're delighted to release Draft comparison capability to our Beta site this week.

Medidata Rave already has an Architect Difference Report but it cannot be used to compare two arbitrary Drafts so if …