Compliant Collaboration

Compliant Collaboration

Microsoft collaboration solutions help research firms satisfy regulatory compliance requirements and allow team members around the globe to upload, store, and search documents quickly and easily.

The high cost of compliant content management

As electronic spreadsheets and text documents replace paper records, research-driven firms are turning to electronic content management (ECM) systems to control the flow of digital information. Many government regulatory organizations require that these systems maintain the digital equivalent of a paper chain with strict criteria for electronic signatures and documents. Non-compliance means fines and delays.

Existing ECM systems provide document control - but at the expense of efficiency and ease of use. Because outside collaborators have trouble accessing these systems, the pace of research suffers. The systems are not intuitive, so even internal users become frustrated.

Add to this the inability of existing systems to store metadata - filing tags such as authors and dates and other important contextual information - within documents. Critical information becomes unavailable whenever a document is checked out of the system. Besides crippling the document search process, these systems make managing the "corporate truth" impossible.

Ultimately these systems are expensive, yet offer little benefit over paper records. They impede collaboration and waste precious time as critical patent protections run down.

Compliant collaboration

Your research organization needs an ECM system that goes beyond satisfying regulatory requirements to improving your use of information and increasing efficiency. This system should provide audit trails, electronic signatures, strict access control, accurate copies, and proper storage of all document versions. It must be validated to produce reliable, accurate information. And the system must be intelligent and easy to use, so team members around the globe can upload, store, and search documents that preserve content with its valuable associated metadata.

​Microsoft and partner solutions

Microsoft and our partners offer ECM solutions that are intuitive and leverage a common interface that integrates familiar Microsoft Office applications with line-of-business systems.

Our compliant technologies extend to the web, allowing remote users to collaborate in real time from anywhere in the world. This easy-to-understand system lets users access and store documents within the familiar Office business applications they rely on to create and modify content.

Even better, our system automatically captures and uploads metadata stored within the document itself and makes it available for searching within the ECM system. This valuable information is always available - even when a document is checked out of the system. And because the metadata is complete, document searches are more productive.

Our ECM systems are delivered in environments that can be validated for regulatory authorities. With the Microsoft platform you get an easy-to-use ECM system that allows customers to keep the total cost of ownership down while driving adoption up.

Faster time to market

Our ECM solutions can help your business become more competitive and agile. Our technology fosters collaboration among global teams in a secure, compliant environment. Users can easily create, store, and find relevant documents in a central repository that meets FDA regulations. With these benefits, your ECM system can help reduce the time and expense of getting drugs to market - improving your business and worldwide health.

Efficiencies that scale

With an ECM solution from Microsoft and our partners you can:

  • Satisfy requirements for audit trails, electronic signatures, restricted access, accurate copies of records, and proper storage.
  • Give remote workers intuitive access to compliant content management - straight from their desktop.
  • Facilitate collaboration and role-based productivity.
  • Create and store valuable metadata directly within the document - even when it's checked out of the ECM system.
  • Support workgroup collaboration, subscriptions, notifications, message boards, and other tools in a secure environment.
  • Control R&D costs and accelerate your return on investment.
  • Help speed drugs to market, improving company performance and public health.