Medical site and online university portal migration

I continued working on the medical site by making sure that the KPIs in the dashboards accurately represent the underlying data, by performing the same calculations on the data that each KPI performed to ensure data accuracy.

I corresponded with Sam throughout the day to make changes to the site by updating the structure of the dashboard.

I then had a meeting at 2:00 to get on board with the online university site which will migrate to SharePoint. Courses will remain on the current system and the online university portal to these courses will be transferred to SharePoint before the end of 2009. The new portal will serve as a way for employees to collaborate, search, and share data and resources related to learning in the J&J work environment. New features include blogs, discussion forums, wikis, and SharePoint search abilities. The new SharePoint portal is a great way for employees to collaborate their learning experiences to become active learners.

Medical website

I spent the day continuing work on the medical evaluation site.

I’ll take one step back and introduce what exactly this site is about. My department manages the collaborative workspace for regulatory medical writers who contribute data on documents that are written in part by J&J and an auxiliary organization.

Mark and I participated in a conference call with Sam, to discuss changes made to the site and how to structure the dashboards that correlate to the data. Dashboards provide simple and concise aggregation of data in the form of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). KPIs reduce the complexity of data by hiding source data within. Users can select individual KPIs to view underlying data.

First week!

I finished creating a team site on the “team” portion of the SharePoint server. I got feedback from Victor and we worked on some permission issues for editing content.

Mark also showed me how to set up and modify dashboard indicators on SharePoint. He showed me how to link an indicator to data on SharePoint and also link the data to a downloadable Excel file that automatically updates when the user selects a button to refresh the data in Excel.