Managing innovation: Maximizing output versus reducing costs
To unlock the promise of the human genome while controlling costs, life sciences companies are increasingly working with academic groups, outsourcing companies, corporate researchers, and industry competitors around the world.
Based on the Microsoft platform, vendors are creating products that can track all research activity, providing a complete up-to-the-moment scorecard on the early-stage pipeline with the ability to drill into the details of any project.
To manage these important but complex relationships, life sciences firms need solutions that foster collaboration and ease the exchange of data across technological boundaries. These solutions must be flexible but secure, so that intellectual property is available to just the right people.
Too often, disparate standards and conventions put crucial information beyond easy reach. Instead of relentlessly pursuing the next breakthrough, scientists waste valuable time locating critical data and then converting it into a usable format. Because information is poorly aggregated at the project level, research managers can't get an up-to-date snapshot across multiple projects before making resource decisions. As a result, weak projects linger while promising ones go without added support. Productivity suffers.
Without a standard technology platform, scientific information remains fractured and hard to access. The pace of innovation slows -- increasing the cost of bringing new drugs to market.
Agility is key
Life sciences companies need secure, intuitive technologies that get the right information to just the right people -- exactly when and where they need it. These solutions should integrate with other applications, and seamlessly aggregate data from disparate sources into common, accessible formats. They should be flexible, familiar, and easy-to-use, so global team members can manage and share information at any time, wherever they are.
Microsoft and partner solutions
Microsoft has partnered with industry-leading solution providers to develop tools that help life sciences firms collect, manage, and share the right information with the right people. Our systems address the challenges posed by data formats as standards emerge to deliver information in an accessible way. These solutions are intuitive, building on familiar Microsoft Office applications to enhance collaboration and help secure your IT environment.
For example, with our InfoMesa solution scientists can work in new ways. By providing a rich and interactive computing environment, InfoMesa helps scientists collaborate and innovate with tools that not only aid them in the journey of discovery, but also capture that journey so decisions, experiments and ideas can be leveraged for future projects.
Electronic lab notebooks from our partners will allow researchers to aggregate their results with supportive images, graphs, tables, and analysis in a single, convenient location. They will enable global teams to instantly access this information using a shared electronic workbench, fostering real-time collaboration.
Based on the Microsoft platform, vendors are creating products that can track all research activity, providing a complete up-to-the-moment scorecard on the early-stage pipeline -- and the ability to drill into the details of any project. Managers have the right information to help them make the best decisions.
Faster time to market
Microsoft technology makes it possible to deliver solutions that make it easy for global teams to find, aggregate, analyze, and share the right information -- precisely when they need it. These solutions can seamlessly transfer information from disparate formats to one that is familiar and easy-to-understand. Freed from data-crunching chores, scientists can focus their full attention on finding the next blockbuster drug.
Our technology fosters secure collaboration, providing global partners a shared workspace where they can safely exchange information in real-time. It gives research managers the data they need to assess projects across the discovery portfolio and to make the best investment decisions -- all while helping to protect the intellectual property of the parties involved.
Our solutions can improve productivity, promote collaboration, and sharpen decision-making.
Accelerate discovery
Improve visibility of the entire research portfolio, including underlying data for each experiment for further analysis.
Enable intuitive, efficient searches of internal and external information repositories, straight from the desktop.
Integrate and aggregate various types of data from analytical instruments and other laboratory tools into a common, easy-to-understand format.
Help secure and facilitate real-time collaboration among global teams.
Provide, with our partners, key tools for analysis, visualization, and simulation.
Optimize investment in research and control costs.
Help speed drugs to market, improving company performance and public health.
Focused on efficiency
Solutions built on the Microsoft platform can help provide secure access to important data across the product life cycle -- from early-stage discovery and clinical trials to FDA submission and manufacturing. With these easy-to-use solutions, users can efficiently search, collect, share, and store information from disparate sources in an accessible, intuitive format. By bringing the entire research pipeline into view, our collaborative solutions improve decision making -- and help get drugs to market faster.
