Microsoft helps life sciences organizations connect systems to solve tough problems
More and more, life sciences organizations are looking for ways to integrate and connect their wide range of information systems that often do not easily share information.
Researchers and decision makers in these organizations typically need to access and share clinical trial information stored in a variety of applications running on different systems. To complicate matters, increasingly complex government regulations require organizations to quickly retrieve information stored on multiple systems.
The latest generation of Microsoft technologies can help life sciences organizations meet these challenges. Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows Server System provide a powerful framework to more easily integrate disparate systems. Microsoft technologies can help life sciences organizations reduce IT complexity and costs while improving the flow of information to research professionals and managers.
See what these companies accomplished with Connected System Solutions from Microsoft
Pfizer
To maximize productivity at its Brooklyn manufacturing plant, Pfizer developed a solution using Microsoft .NET that provides simplified access to information for employees involved in the production planning process.
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare adopted a new Microsoft-based solution when it redesigned its network of smoking cessation Web sites and looked for ways to improve the delivery and management of online marketing campaigns.
Merckle GmbH
With 25 domains on its corporate network, German pharmaceutical firm Merckle GmbH needed to simplify IT management, enhance security, and provide users with a single logon ID.
Perlegen Sciences
Perlegen uses a Microsoft Windows–based high-performance computing cluster and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Laboratory Information Management System to manage experiments and process huge volumes of genomic data.
Integration and connected systems technology partners
Microsoft is collaborating with leading technology companies, software developers, and systems integrators that provide both extensive technical experience and a deep knowledge of the specific requirements of the pharmaceutical industry.
Technology partners providing integration solutions include:
Accenture
AccentureA global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them achieve the highest level of performance. Offering deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources, and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills, and technologies to help clients succeed.
Covansys
Covansys is a global consulting and technology services company that offers industry-specific solutions, strategic outsourcing, and integration services. The company works through an onsite, offsite, offshore delivery model that helps clients achieve rapid deployment, world-class quality, and reduced costs. Advantrial from Covansys is a comprehensive clinical trial management solution that simplifies protocol setup and helps to ensure accurate data entry.
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard is a global technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses, and institutions. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services, and imaging and printing. HP solutions for the healthcare industry can help pharmaceutical companies enhance workflow and optimize resources to drive a more predictable cost model and improve the quality of healthcare.
Infosys Technologies Ltd
India (Corporate HQ): +91 (80) 2852 0261
USA: (510) 742-3000
U.K: +44 20 7715 3300
Infosys Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INFY) provides consulting and IT services to clients globally — as partners to conceptualize and realize technology driven business transformation initiatives. With over 36,000 employees worldwide, we leverage our Global Delivery Model (GDM) to help our customers “Improve their odds with Infosys’ Predictability”.
Infosys is one of the top “Managed GSI (Global System Integrators)” partners of Microsoft achieving almost 100% YOY growth through joint engagements. Our alliance is built around a shared mission to lower the cost of technology ownership and enhance the value realized by clients from their technology investments. The alliance brings together Infosys' proven solution development expertise with the scalability and reliability of Microsoft's platform to enable the delivery of robust, cost-effective e-business solutions to customers.
INS (Immedient Business Solutions Division
(732) 743-3600
INS offers a sophisticated and comprehensive set business and technology consulting and software solutions to help organizations optimize their business by reducing operational risk, increasing productivity, and supporting revenue growth. Our IT Infrastructure Consulting Solutions deliver smart, secure business technology infrastructures. Our Immedient Business Solutions streamline and enhance business processes for enterprise project management, collaboration and analytics. And our Diamond IP Software provides flexible and scalable software solutions for today's complex IP networks. We have delivered tens of thousands of successful engagements worldwide over more than a decade of operation. INS is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., and has offices in the U.S., Europe, and SE Asia.
Medidata Solutions Worldwide
(212) 918-1847
Medidata Solutions helps the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies realize the maximum potential value from their clinical research investments. Working with companies large and small, Medidata Solutions helps accelerate the process of bringing life-enhancing treatments to market – on five continents and in more than 70 countries. Innovative process design, technology and services can streamline clinical trials by providing early visibility to clinical data for faster decision-making, optimized resources and lower execution risk. Medidata Solutions’ broad client base and deep clinical experience provide value for the world’s leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies.
Project Assistants, Inc.
(800) 642-9259; (302) 477-9711
Project Assistants is a full service project management consulting firm founded in 1996 offering consulting services, custom development, education and staffing for enterprise project management solutions. Project Assistants partners with its clients to provide ongoing productivity and quality improvements through enhanced project management and collaboration solutions. Given that Project Assistants’ primary clients are organizations that base their businesses on mission critical projects that require enterprise-wide project management methodologies, processes, tools and a supporting internal organization, they have extensive experience and domain expertise within the Healthcare industry.
Additional information
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