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Managing 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance

Managing 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States designed Part 11 of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR Part 11) to help ensure that life sciences companies can use electronic records and signatures that are equivalent to those based on paper and ink. However, initiating and maintaining Part 11 compliance can be complex and costly. The 2007 Microsoft Office system simplifies compliance with support for the complete document lifecycle. In fact, much of the functionality necessary for Part 11 compliance is built into the Office system, including workflow, audit trails, digital signatures, and full versioning support.


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These featured partners have solutions based on the Microsoft Office System that are deployed at customer locations. Case studies of their solutions are available through the Solution Showcase.

NextDocs Corporation: NextDocs Document Management

NextDocs provides Document Management software for Life Sciences companies.  NextDocs’ product suite is designed to help you meet your organization's quality and compliance needs.  Digital signatures and advanced workflow enable you to comply with FDA 21 CFR Part 11 while improving productivity and efficiency.

NextDocs DM is an enterprise document and records management solution for companies in highly regulated environments.

QualityDocs is end-to-end quality management system that enables management of quality documents & processes.

EmployeeDocs is a robust tracking and employee record management system.

ProjectDocs provides turnkey project level document management.


Showcased Partner Solutions

ThoughtBridge, LLC: Engineering Change Orders
ThoughtBridge has created an automated, systematic approach to driving the engineering change order (ECO) process – and customized it for the life sciences industry using the 2007 Microsoft Office System. Engineering change orders (ECOs) help companies monitor and track activities associated with any changes to its products. In the life sciences industry, this tracking is regulated by the FDA, which calls for secure, time-stamped audit trails of such processes under 21 CFR Part 11 regulations. To meet this regulation, the solution includes digital signature validation of ECO documentation as well as detailed audit trail capabilities. The solution also features a web-based collaboration site where all tasks related to ECO completions can be performed. Workflow management capabilities monitor ECO forms throughout the entire routing and approval process.
ZORCH SOFTWARE: Zorch DM/Zorch Submission Manager

 Zorch Software provides comprehensive Microsoft-based document management and submission management solutions to help life science companies organize, manage and optimize their regulatory documents and regulatory submissions. Global pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies have engaged Zorch to improve their R&D project and resource management infrastructure and processes.  The Zorch management team has engaged in over 200 FDA regulated document control software validations.  In mid 2007 Zorch will release a new solution that introduces regulatory document management, metadata-driven eCTD submission assembly and submission lifecycle management all based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) platform.

Showcased Partners with Relevant Capabilities

Clusterseven Ltd: Enterprise Spreadsheet Management Software
ClusterSeven Enterprise Spreadsheet Management (ESM) Software is a complete solution to support the use of Excel spreadsheets as operational applications in business-critical processes. It delivers auditability, regulatory compliance (e.g. SOX), reduced risk, change management and transparency of data and activity. It does all this without reducing the flexibility and familiarity that makes Excel so powerful at delivering fast, competitive and cost-effective solutions to changing business needs.
Perficient, Inc.: Collaborative Document Generation and Workflow

The Collaborative Document Generation and Workflow solution is a comprehensive Document Creation application that automatically generates word documents for very complex documents with a high degree of business rules and processing.  Some of the processing includes:
• The ability to generate a document completely from business data.
• The ability to restrict which users have access to which parts of a document
• The ability to take documents “off-line”, edit them, and then to pull them back into the system to update business data.
• The ability to input data into the Word document and then have that data pulled back into the application and business database.

It also includes a comprehensive Workflow process that manages each users work through the system to review and approve documents and to perform sequential tasks throughout the system.

Newtech Global Solutions LLC: NGS's SPLGen

A quality process that lighten the need for companies to undertake significant internal review prior to submission in preparing and validating the SPL XML data.           

    The ability to keep labeling documents within Microsoft Share Point Electronic Document Management System, so it meets document compliance and record management requirements.                                                   

       SPLGen  has an option to import SPL compliant XML data files from other systems like DailyMed.

Strategic Thought Group PLC: Active Risk Manager
Active Risk Manager - from Strategic Thought - the ERM Company. Providing compliance, project, operational and corporate risk, control, opportunity and issue management. Fully integrated to the MS Project Server family of products and MS SharePoint. Delivers value streams for projects, assets, processes, organization, key performance indicators and financial accounts.
VORSITE CORPORATION: The Vorsite Content and Search Connectors for MOSS SharePoint Server

The Vorsite Connector provide integration points between Microsoft Office SharePoint Products and Technologies and enterprise content management systems such as Documentum and FileNet.

 

Key features include: content/document sharing, portal integration, unified  and federated search.

Workshare USA: Workshare Professional

Workshare Professional is an Outbound Content Security and Document Integrity solution that eliminates the risk of content leaks and inaccuracies, enabling the safe, compliant and high speed information exchange needed in today’s competitive business environment.  Workshare Professional ensures the secure, accurate, and compliant production and exchange of your contracts, term sheets and other business critical documents. With Workshare you can exchange important documents and be certain the right information – and only the right information – is in your document.

 

Workshare, an information security company, delivers Secure Content Compliance solutions ensuring safe information exchange without business disruption. Workshare's solutions are used by over 5,500 organizations in 65 countries.

Workshare USA: Workshare Protect Enterprise Suite

Millions of documents, emails and other electronic communications with private, confidential, or otherwise sensitive information leave organizations every day. Insider leakage of confidential info, whether inadvertent or malicious, demands action due to the financial, privacy and legal implications.    Protect Enterprise Suite alerts your users to potentially embarrassing, regulated or confidential content disclosures before they happen, cures risky content when appropriate, and blocks only when necessary - plugging leaks such as:  1) Confidential consumer or customer info violating global, Federal and state regulations, 2) Trade secrets, patents, customer lists, and other intellectual property, 3) Financial information prior to disclosure date, and 4) Server names and email addresses revealing a map to the corporate network leaving it exposed to outside-in network attacks.

SourceCode - K2.net Workflow: K2.net BlackPearl (K2.net 2007)

K2.net 2007 (code named BlackPearl) is the next generation product based on the award winning K2.net 2003 enterprise workflow solution. K2.net 2003 launched with Office 2003 and K2.net 2007 will launch in the same timeframe as Office 2007. K2.net BlackPearl adds over 200 new features from the previous version and has been heralded as the leader of advanced workflow and enhanced business process management (BPM) solutions.

 

K2.net helps customers increase profitability, reduce costs, improve customer satisfaction, and maintain compliance efforts.

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