Microsoft solutions for life sciences productivity and collaboration
One of the top issues facing life sciences researchers and professionals is how to transform the endless flood of information into usable medical and therapeutic knowledge. Most organizations store information in a wide range of isolated systems. As a result, researchers can’t always find the information they need when they need it.
Not only do these poorly integrated systems impact researchers, but they affect an organization’s bottom line. This can hamper innovation, slow product development, and impede efforts to comply with mandated reporting requirements.
The latest generation of collaboration products and tools from Microsoft are already helping life sciences organizations tackle this problem. Microsoft Office System offers a family of integrated technologies and applications that help streamline processes, enhance productivity, and facilitate collaboration.
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003, a new program, enables researchers to create interactive forms that can make it easy to capture and share data. InfoPath eliminates the need for researchers to retype the same information in different applications. This helps reduce costs and minimize errors.
Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provides life sciences organizations with the tools to quickly develop portals that integrate data from various systems into a single solution. SharePoint can make it dramatically easier to access and share critical information.
Read about productivity and collaboration solutions in action
Akzo Nobel–Organon
Akzo Nobel's Organon business unit deployed a comprehensive portal that produced dramatic results. The portal resulted in a 50 percent reduction in document search failures, a 10 percent increase in the completion rate for shared tasks and projects, and a 10 percent drop in time spent viewing irrelevant data.
Merck & Co.
Utilizing InfoPath 2003, Merck is optimizing the creation, transmission, and collection of information for late stage clinical trials.
Productivity and collaboration 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 offering productivity and collaboration solutions include:
Accenture
(312) 737-8842
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. Accenture’s Health and Life Sciences professionals deliver innovation and insight to both the private and public sectors of the marketplace, which includes integrated healthcare providers, health insurers, managed care organizations, public health organizations and pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical products companies. With more than 5,000 professionals dedicated to serving the global Health and Life Sciences industry, Accenture is committed to working with clients across the industry to help them achieve and sustain high performance. We have worked with companies of all sizes, including 21 of 24 healthcare and pharmaceutical companies in the Fortune Global 500.
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 improve workflow efficiencies and optimize resource utilization to drive a more predictable cost model and improve the quality of healthcare.
Immedient
Immedient creates innovative, scalable solutions based on the Microsoft platform that enhance the ability of pharmaceutical sales and marketing teams to communicate and collaborate. Recognized for solutions in collaboration, enterprise systems, and e-commerce, Immedient provides strategic, enterprise-class technology solutions that improve teamwork, increase productivity, and drive accountability.
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.
Motion Computing
(866) MTABLET
Motion Computing produces slate tablet PCs for mobile professionals in healthcare, field sales and service, government and education. Motion’s advancements in mobile computing security and versatility help increase user productivity. Marketed through its international reseller network and directly through its Web site, each Motion product is built to customer specifications.
ProClarity Corporation
(208) 344-1630
ProClarity is the number one front end analytic client to Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. ProClarity, a 2005 Microsoft Global ISV finalist, is a fast-growing, specialized provider of analysis software [platforms and tools] that give global 3000 organizations business professionals a simple, powerful and adaptable interface to insight – providing innovative new ways to explore in-depth information, understand drivers of corporate performance and make consistently better decisions while reducing the data delivery burden on IT. ProClarity software is built to extend the Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform, providing the critical component of advanced analytics.
ProScape Technologies
(800) 459-9300
Proscape is the leading provider of sales and marketing effectiveness software for the Tablet PC used in deploying mobile detailing solutions for pharmaceutical companies. Deployed mobile detailing solutions using Proscape software helps sales reps initiate and deliver more effective physician interactions, boost sales force automation (SFA) adoption, and improve overall marketing effectiveness. With Proscape, there is no lost selling time, no off-message details, no proof sources left in the car, no compliance issues, no delayed sales aid deployments, and most important….no missed sales opportunities.
Thorogood Associates
(609) 375-2360
Thorogood Associates is a global business intelligence systems specialist, helping pharmaceutical and life sciences clients for more than 17 years. Thorogood has delivered business intelligence systems and strategies that have enabled leading pharma companies like GlaxoSmithKline, Astra Zeneca, and Johnson & Johnson to improve sales force and marketing effectiveness, maximize profitability, improve R&D productivity and manage global supply chains.
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