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As research and life science organizations around the world continue to devote tremendous energy and funds to drug development, more efficient processes and cost-effective technology can expedite clinical trials and deliver therapies to patients faster. The University of Southern California (USC)Keck School of Medicine, along with theSouthern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (SC CTSI), embarked on a digitization journey to modernize its Medicare Coverage Analysis (MCA) processes managed in the Clinical Trials Office. MCA processes are a critical component of clinical trial administration as they dictate whether Medicare will cover the medical trial.“We work with teams on promising clinical trials to remove roadblocks from researchers at USC and across the U.S.,” says Allison Orechwa, Ph.D., Director of Programmatic Development and Interim Program Director for Healthcare Delivery Science at CS CTSI. “We need to be as efficient as possible in our approach to empower the organizations we support — taking a more advanced approach to analytics stood out as one of the best ways to accomplish this.”Pluto7, the 2019 Google Cloud Specialization Partner of the Year for Data and Analytics, helped the school with this transformation. The team began by surveying USC researchers to identify the challenges they faced and find opportunities to streamline their processes. A highly skilled research administrator has to understand each study procedure to determine how the school will be reimbursed for the trial. This manual procedure is a major bottleneck to swiftly launching new clinical trials that can evaluate new therapies.To streamline this process, Pluto7 built an algorithm to read standard of care guidelines, match a given procedure with those guidelines, and assign it to the correct billing category in milliseconds. Google Cloud solutions including Document AI and Vision AI further accelerated the analysis. After successfully completing a proof of concept to streamline the billing processes, the school was able to significantly shorten the budgeting process for breast cancer studies. Now, the school is looking into a range of other projects to accelerate clinical trials across other diseases. The more that time can be reduced, the faster critical results will be available within USC and the broader research community around the globe.“This is about saving lives,” says Allison. “Getting new drugs developed and to market can greatly improve patient outcomes, so the faster we are, the better the impact on healthcare providers and their patients. With Pluto7’s help and Google Cloud solutions, we have a foundation for accelerating clinical trials and in the end, supporting better patient outcomes.”Read the full case study to learn more about how USC partnered with Google Cloud and Pluto7 on this project.Related ArticleUnifiedpost and Google collaborate on Document AI to automate procurement data captureUnifiedpost uses Google Cloud Document AI to automate procurement data capture.Read Article
Quelle: Google Cloud Platform

5. November 2020

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Introducing Document AI platform, a unified console for document processing

We believe that any company that has to manually extract data from complex documents at scale can greatly benefit from Google Cloud AI. Transforming documents into structured data increases the speed of decision making for companies, unlocking measurable business value and helping develop better experiences for customers. Historically, doing this at scale hasn’t been efficient. This is why Google Cloud has worked to help businesses use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning to automate these processes, and why we’re excited to announce the new Document AI (DocAI) platform, a unified console for document processing.Today, the DocAI platform is available in preview, enabling you to:Ensure your data is accurate and compliant: Automate and validate all your documents to streamline compliance workflows, reduce guesswork, and keep data accurate and compliant.Make better business decisions: Improve operational efficiency by extracting structured data from unstructured documents and making that available to your business applications and users.Use your data to meet customer expectations: Leverage insights to meet customer expectations and improve CSAT, advocacy, lifetime value, and spend.With the new DocAI platform, you can quickly access all parsers, tools and solutions (e.g. Lending DocAI, Procurement DocAI) with a unified API, enabling an end-to-end document solution from evaluation to deployment. It allows effortless creation and customization of document processing workflows. Data extraction is now easier because the specialized parsers on the platform are built with Google Cloud’s predefined taxonomy, without the need to perform additional data mapping or training.One of our customers, Unifiedpost, a FinTech company from Belgium, increased their data capture accuracy by 250% and also lowered their TCO of procure-to-pay processing costs by up to 60% by using Procurement DocAI.How to use the new DocAI platformTo illustrate how the DocAI platform works, here’s an example of the main selection screen of all the parsers, followed by two examples from a W9 and an invoice. First, you need to first create a document processor. You can either use one of our general processors such as Form Parser, or a specialized processor such as W9 Parser for your domain-specific documents.Once you’ve created your processors, they can be viewed in a unified dashboard. You can also test your processor by uploading your own document directly in the console. In the example below, you see that the W9 parser has accurately classified the information (e.g. address, account numbers, and signatures) in the document.You can also try this with an invoice for procurement document processing. In the example below, the invoice parser was able to extract the appropriate data (e.g. supplier name, invoice date, and payment terms) from the document.We’re working on additional capabilities for the DocAI platform to rapidly grow its core capabilities and support for additional parsers. All of its specialized parsers are created and fine-tuned to achieve industry-leading accuracy, helping businesses confidently unlock insights from documents with machine learning. General parsers such as OCR (Optical Character Recognition), Form parser, and Document splitter are publicly accessible. You can also request access to specialized parsers such as W9, 1040, W2, 1099-MISC, 1003, invoice, and receipts. What’s nextWe’re excited to have you start working with the DocAI platform. To learn more about how to get started and everything you can do with the platform, check out our documentation or contact the Google Cloud sales team.Related ArticleUnifiedpost and Google collaborate on Document AI to automate procurement data captureUnifiedpost uses Google Cloud Document AI to automate procurement data capture.Read Article
Quelle: Google Cloud Platform

5. November 2020

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Google Cloud and Managecore: Partnering to accelerate SAP cloud migrations

An SAP cloud migration can be an incredibly valuable IT investment, giving an enterprise a practical upgrade path away from on-premises SAP infrastructure to a flexible, scalable, and efficient public cloud environment. But moving SAP workloads to the cloud is rarely simple or easy. Many IT organizations struggle to manage the short-term cost, complexity, and risk that come with SAP cloud migrations—and too many migrations fall short or fail completely. As a result, some IT organizations hesitate to move ahead with their SAP cloud migrations, frustrating their business partners and delighting faster-moving competitors.Google Cloudand Managecore LLC, a Google Cloud specialized partner and SAP cloud migration expert, have been partnering for some time to modernize SAP workloads for SAP customers. This includes helping customers such as FFF Enterprises and DistributionNOW take advantage of key Google Cloud SAP capabilities in the areas of agility, uptime, performance, support, lower TCO plus advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities, paving the way for further digital transformation. Working together, Google Cloud and Managecore, demonstrated how the Google Cloud Acceleration Program (CAP) significantly reduces the cost and risk of SAP cloud migrations. Managecore used CAP to secure major SAP migration wins with clients including Pegasystems, GDT, and BK Medical—reducing migration and infrastructure costs, and giving these companies faster, simpler, and less disruptive SAP cloud migration experiences.CAP clears a path to value in the cloudGoogle Cloud’s work with SAP customers reveals two keys to overcoming the challenges of an SAP cloud migration:Giving IT leaders confidence that their SAP cloud migrations will travel a simple, predictable, consistent path to value that minimizes business risk.Connecting IT organizations with skilled, experienced SAP cloud migration experts who understand how to plan, prepare, and execute a flawless migration to Google Cloud—minimizing business disruptions, and accelerating time to value.The Cloud Acceleration Program (CAP) works to clear these obstacles. CAP reduces migration and infrastructure costs until go-live, so that cost-related risk and uncertainty are removed from the migration process.In addition, CAP offers a wealth of technical and migration process resources to companies that want to migrate SAP workloads to Google Cloud, or that want to extend SAP solutions with Google Cloud infrastructure and functionality. This includes access to architecture templates, migration accelerators, specialized SAP-focused support, and partner-led assessment services, architecting, and centers of excellence. These resources give companies a reliable and repeatable formula for a faster, simpler, a more predictable migration journey.Practice and expertise mean no surprisesAs valuable as the Cloud Acceleration Program can be, we understand that nothing replaces firsthand SAP migration expertise and practical experience. That’s where a partner like Managecore enters the picture and proves its value.Managecore’s extensive SAP cloud migration experience gives them visibility to potential technology, platform, planning and architecture decisions. Managecore can also help with ongoing Google Cloud infrastructure management and SAP application support. These capabilities help to protect the long-term value of an SAP cloud environment. Managecore brings the same expertise when an SAP customer is ready to make the move to SAP S/4HANA or to implement other SAP upgrades. Pegasystems, GDT, and BK Medical wins with CAPManagecore has already applied this formula to score some wins migrating its clients’ SAP environments to Google Cloud. While each of these cloud migrations was different in key respects, all of them exemplify the value of a simpler, faster, less expensive and far less risky path to success with SAP in the cloud.Pegasystems: Minimizing the pain of migration costsFor cloud software provider Pegasystems, an existing private-cloud SAP environment had fallen painfully short of expectations. Lackluster SAP and hosting support left the company tied to outdated, inflexible systems with reliability issues. Rising costs were also a concern. Pegasystems was also eager to access modern AI/ML and analytics capabilities that its legacy environment couldn’t support.Managecore orchestrated a cloud migration that brought together a number of best-in-class technology capabilities, including the ability to leverage BigQuery on Google Cloud. Pegasystems also uses Managecore to manage its Google Cloud infrastructure and SAP applications, ensuring that its SAP Google Cloud environment will deliver consistent peak performance. Pegasystems’ SAP environment is also serving as a starting point for a broader cloud modernization strategy—including the prospect of migrating the company’s entire data center to Google Cloud within three years.“The ability to leverage Managecore through the Cloud Acceleration Program dramatically reduced the risk and costs of our SAP migration to Google Cloud. With the help of Managecore we were able to focus on running our ERP business operations in the Cloud, rather than the technical elements of the project.” —David Vidoni, Vice President of IT, PegasystemsGeneral Datatech (GDT): Using the cloud to maintain financial agilityGDT, a provider of IT solutions, took an important lesson away from the COVID-19 pandemic: they needed a secure, modern, long-term solution for running its SAP ERP systems. They also wanted to dramatically reduce their CapEx budget in favor of a more flexible and versatile OpEx model.By leveraging CAP, Managecore compounded the financial flexibility and cost savings for GDT—eliminating its cloud migration costs, and also ensuring that GDT wouldn’t pay any infrastructure costs until its new SAP environment was ready to go live. In July, GDT worked with Managecore and Google Cloud to migrate its SAP workloads to modern Google Cloud infrastructure. With the migration project still underway, Managecore and Google Cloud will also lay the groundwork for GDT to adopt SAP HANA and other key technology upgrades, with Managecore providing ongoing cloud and SAP technical managed services for steady state support after the go-live.BK Medical: Securing a platform for stability and growth For BK Medical, a healthcare information and treatment solutions provider, there was real urgency in its SAP cloud migration plans. The company had inherited its SAP landscape in a divestiture from Analogic Devices, and the company was eager to migrate its SAP systems onto a new platform as quickly as possible. Once again, Google Cloud and Managecore delivered a major advantage with CAP, allowing BK Medical to plan its SAP strategy with no migration costs and no charge for infrastructure until its new SAP environment went live. The migration is getting underway and, once completed, BK Medical will be taking advantage of Managecore’s ongoing cloud and technical managed SAP services for steady state support.IT decision-makers know that their choice for hosting SAP applications in the cloud is one with huge implications—for the business, for their teams, and for their careers. Cost alone has never been the deciding factor for hosting business-critical applications, which is why Managecore’s success with CAP isn’t just a matter of reducing a customer’s migration and infrastructure costs. Through CAP, Google Cloud and Managecore allow SAP customers to focus on what really matters: making the most of the opportunities the cloud gives them. Learn more about SAP on Google Cloud, the Cloud Acceleration Program and Managecore capabilities for SAP.
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