Creating a Study Build is a team effort: Study Builders, Standards Managers, Custom Function Programmers and Testers all working on different parts of the delivered product. With so many people involved, communication can become a challenge, especially where the team are scattered across several timezones.

Even as a solo study …

Using Standard Libraries is an excellent way to achieve study build efficiency but within a study some variation from a Therapeutic Area or Global Standard is expected or even encouraged. So how do you, as a Customer of a study build team, get assurance that what has been delivered to …

This week Amazon had problems with its Simple Storage Service (S3) which affected a number of prominent services including Quora the Q&A site and the popular Slack team-communication system.

For full details of what happened you can read Amazon's disclosure. But in summary, a user typed a command incorrectly …