I started working with Medidata Rave in 2008 and I remember being impressed by the scope of the Rave product. Compared to other EDC systems it seemed to have everything: EDC, data migrations and versioning, double-key data entry, PDF generation, customizable workflow, non-programming edit checking, data export generation and reporting …

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 …

One of the changes in the next Medidata Rave release, Rave 2018.1.0, is that standard fields in Edit Checks must have a Record Position of 0. This has long been a recommended best practice but up till now has not been required. Rave will now check that the …