BOSTON & HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PAREXEL International Corporation (NASDAQ: PRXL), a leading global biopharmaceutical services organization, and EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced they have entered into an alliance to offer an end-to-end Regulatory Information Management (RIM) and Regulatory Content Management solution.
By combining PAREXEL® LIQUENT InSight® Regulatory Information Management platform and EMC® Documentum® for Life Sciences software solution suite, PAREXEL now provides life sciences companies with a complete solution for a product’s entire regulatory lifespan. Life science companies can utilize the solution for strategy and planning, authoring, publishing, submitting, viewing, archiving, and lifecycle management for a product. The offering is available through PAREXEL’s Regulatory Cloud, a life sciences content and regulatory information management solution structured within a dedicated, private cloud environment.
“A life sciences company must navigate the complex, global and region-specific regulatory landscape to maintain registration and compliance for a product,” said Paul Bidez, Ph.D., Vice President and Global Head of Regulatory Solutions, PAREXEL. “To help solve this challenge for our clients, PAREXEL and EMC brought together our respective industry-leading regulatory information management platform and industry-leading life sciences content management solution suite within PAREXEL’s Regulatory Cloud.”
PAREXEL’s Regulatory Cloud utilizes identity-based security that ensures that only authorized users can gain access to the infrastructure and application resources they require. Applications can be configured or integrated to meet client-specific requirements.
The EMC Documentum for Life Sciences software solution suite can eliminate companies’ data silos to transform how organizations access, manage and share information across nonclinical, clinical, quality and regulatory groups, ensuring a single, authoritative source for regulated content. The fully-integrated suite leverages industry standards and utilizes easily configurable, intuitive, and personalized interfaces to maximize productivity and ensure easy access to information. This helps to bring high-quality and safer drugs to market faster, improving health and well-being, while lowering costs.
“Industry pressures are prompting biopharmaceutical organizations to adopt new business models, enter new global markets, and expand alliances and partnerships. To achieve these goals, Life Sciences organizations are becoming more strategic in how they manage information,” said Rohit Ghai, President, Enterprise Content Division, EMC. “By partnering with PAREXEL, we’re enabling these organizations to digitally transform and deliver high-quality, safer drugs to market faster and at a lower cost, while meeting regulatory requirements.”
Regulatory Cloud is offered by PAREXEL directly or through the Company's Perceptive® Partner Program.
About LIQUENT InSight
Since the market introduction of
LIQUENT InSight in 2004, 16 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies have
selected the LIQUENT InSight platform as their authoritative source of
regulatory information. PAREXEL’s RIM technologies can also be coupled
with comprehensive professional services from PAREXEL, which provides a
full complement of Regulatory Outsourcing Services to help companies
meet the demands of today’s complex and changing regulatory environment.
About EMC Documentum for Life Sciences software solution suite
Over
75% of leading life sciences firms rely on EMC Documentum. Our tightly
integrated solutions deliver standardized business processes that
simplify access to content. The EMC Documentum for Life Sciences
software solution suite delivers proactive, automated, business rules
and enhancements across the suite while ensuring a simple, user
experience to reduce risk, streamline processes and boost worker
productivity. Organizations can create a single authoritative source for
regulated content, seamlessly link and share content across departments
(or divisions) and provide proactive notifications to document authors,
owners and users when document changes take place or actions and tasks
are required. The suite includes: EMC Documentum Electronic Trial Master
File, EMC
Documentum Research and Development, EMC
Documentum Submission Store and View, and EMC
Documentum Quality and Manufacturing.
About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling
businesses and service providers to transform their operations and
deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud
computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates
the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage,
protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more
agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC
can be found at www.EMC.com.
EMC and Documentum are registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.
About PAREXEL International
PAREXEL International
Corporation is a leading global biopharmaceutical services organization,
providing a broad range of expertise-based contract research,
consulting, medical
communications, and technology solutions and services to the
worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries.
Committed to providing solutions that expedite time-to-market and
peak-market penetration, PAREXEL has developed significant expertise
across the development and commercialization continuum, from drug
development and regulatory consulting to clinical pharmacology, clinical
trials management, medical education and reimbursement. PAREXEL
Informatics provides advanced technology solutions, including medical
imaging, to facilitate the clinical development process. Headquartered
near Boston, Massachusetts, PAREXEL has offices in 77 locations in 51
countries around the world and had approximately 18,200 employees in the
second quarter. For more information about PAREXEL International, visit www.PAREXEL.com.
PAREXEL is a registered trademark of PAREXEL International Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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