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Pricing Compliance Help for SAP Users

By Salvatore Salamone

Keeping in compliance with government drug pricing regulations has been and continues to be a formidable challenge for pharmaceutical companies.

Ensuring compliance requires collecting, analyzing, and reporting on information from numerous systems, many departments, and other disparate resources. Penalties for non-compliance are steep - industry experts estimate that over the last three years fines totaling more than $2 billion have been levied by the U.S. government.

"With so much more information needed to set prices, it's been much more complicated in demonstrating pricing compliance to the government," says Eric Bloom, vice president of information technology at Endo Pharmaceuticals. Bloom's sentiments are common in the industry.

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Analytics for Pharma Sales and Marketing

By Salvatore Salamone

With its DecisionSite analytics software being widely used by "the white coat areas of operation," Spotfire says it is now taking aim at the white collar areas of pharmaceutical companies.

To that end, the company has launched DecisionSite for Sales and Marketing Analytics, an application that gives managers a quick way to combine, analyze, and view data from pharmaceutical industry marketing and sales databases as well as internal sources such as sales force automation (SFA), customer relationship management (CRM), or enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications.

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Featured Events

TRAX Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Summit 2005 - June 6 - 8, Philadelphia, PA

Bio-IT World Conference + Expo - May 17-19, Boston, MA

Biotech Process Efficiency and Optimization Conference, - May 23 - 24, Arlington, VA

Predicting Drug Safety and Risk - May 23-24, Boston, MA

Best Practices Awards - Call for Entries - Deadline, May 6th

Beyond Genome 2005: The Future or Medicine - June 13-16, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA

Would you like to see your conference or event listed here? Contact Shari Redan at shari_redan@bio-itworld.com for more information.

EMC Upgrades Documentum, Adds Outlook Client

By Salvatore Salamone

EMC has announced a major revision to Documentum. The company claims the new offering, dubbed its next-generation enterprise content management platform, brings together collaboration, federated search, and retention management capabilities into one system.

One major enhancement in the release is a new offering called the EMC Documentum Client for Outlook. This software lets an Outlook user access all of the features of Documentum that are available in the traditional Documentum Web-based interface. With this client software, users can also save e-mail messages and attachments in a Documentum repository.

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Featured Events

Upcoming Industry Events

TRAX Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Summit 2005 - June 6-8, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
With no clear pharmaceutical supply chain leader creating the path to follow, we are on the upslope of an enormous shift and are uncertain as to where to look for guidance and requirements. TRAX 2005 aims to relieve some of this confusion by providing you with solid case study examples, both successes and failures, on attempts to increase supply chain security and efficiency, updates from the leading regulatory authorities, and the perspectives of the retail pharmacies, all providing guidance as to how to optimize and secure your manufacturing and distribution channels. Visit us at www.traxsummit.com/index.cfm/newsection=yes/brochurekeycode=XE3500BIOIT

Bio-IT World Conference + Expo - May 17-19, Boston, MA
Discuss and evaluate the latest scientific, technological and IT breakthroughs in the post-genome era! Attend exciting presentations from GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Tufts University, UK Biobank and many more! Discover the many new product and service offerings on the expo floor this Spring. Attendees from all over come to interact in a hands-on demonstration and meet face-to-face with vendors to evaluate their next purchase decisions. Register Today: http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/live/26/register

CBI's Biotech Process Efficiency and Optimization conference, May 23 - 24, Arlington, VA
Attend CBI's Biotech Process Efficiency and Optimization conference, May 23 - 24, 2005 in Arlington, VA to discuss new ways to improve yield, overcome regulatory hurdles, and increase ROI in this expanding market. For more information or to register, please contact the Center for Business Intelligence toll free by phone at 1-800-817-8601 or via e-mail at cbireg@cbinet.com Visit our web site at http://www.cbinet.com/events/HB515/index.html

Predicting Drug Safety and Risk - May 23-24, Boston, MA CBI's Predicting Drug Safety and Risk - Actual Application of Systems-Based Omics Technologies in Reducing Attrition Rates and the Costs of Drug Discovery is designed to help companies to achieve this goal - to innovate and modernize drug safety tools and practices so that compounds may be screened more effectively and quickly in discovery as opposed to down the line when cost and risks are greater. For more information or to register, please contact the Center for Business Intelligence toll free at 1-800-817-8601 or via e-mail at cbireg@cbinet.com, or visit http://www.cbinet.com/events/HB533/index.html

Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards - Call for Entries - Deadline, May 6th
Enter the third annual Best Practices Awards recognizing the innovative use of technology and business strategies to accelerate the drug discovery and R&D process. Visit www.bio-itworld.com/bestpractices/ for more information.

Beyond Genome 2005: The Future or Medicine - June 13-16, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA. This event Features programs on Bioinformatics, RNA Interference, Proteomics, Systems Biologym, and new to 2005 Genomic Variation. We anticipate more than 1,000 scientists and over 40 exhibiting companies. visit www.beyondgenome.com for more information.

Capgemini Analysis

Making Pharma-Biotech Deals Work

By Klaus Nagels

Principal, Life Sciences Sector Europe

Capgemini

Deals are the lifeblood - the engine - of the bioscience industry. Big pharma needs new compounds to fill its pipeline, while in capital-starved times, biotech needs (to get license deals) licenses to survive.

But what happens once the ink is dry on a deal? How do you ensure that technology is transferred, that projects progress as planned - that collaboration between what are often very different corporate animals is real?

The whole issue of improving the quality of collaboration in biosciences is fast becoming a senior management priority - and it is not hard to see why.

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Capgemini Archives

Enterprise Document Management in Life Sciences
The majority of a life science company's knowledge is resident largely in the form of "unstructured content." Read more.

Assessing Technology-Based Collaboration for Life Sciences
Technology-based collaboration is one of the hottest topics in the life science industry today. But where's the real value? Read more.

Enterprise Contract Management

As the life sciences industry looks in vain for the next blockbuster to boost its finances, a potentially lucrative source of profit and revenue is staring many life sciences firms in the face. Read more.

Utilizing the Right Levers to Make Clinical Trials More Efficient

The latest generation of clinical trials data management systems is paving the way for pharma companies to conduct clinical trials in lower-cost countries while improving decision-making and increasing the quality and transparency of the data. Read more.

PLM Matters More Than Ever

Pharmaceutical companies are missing vital opportunities to maximize their products' lifetime value. Read more.

Meeting Mid-Tier Business Needs

Mid-tier pharma and biotech companies must achieve sustainable growth while maintaining regulatory compliance - the good news is that help is available. Read more.

Business Intelligence Helps Pharmas Work Smarter

A long-standing Holy Grail of IT, business intelligence, is re-emerging as one of the hottest IT topics. Read more.

Truly Mobile - Improving Pharma Sales Force Effectiveness

Investment in mobile technologies is growing at over 50 percent per annum across industries and around the world. It is one of the few clear IT growth areas. Interest from pharma companies is growing fast, too. Read more.

Improving the ROI of Your SAP Implementation

SAP's enterprise solution is ubiquitous - not least in the pharmaceutical industry, where its client list reads like a 'Who's Who' of industry leaders. But for some of these clients, SAP has not been the lifesaver they thought it would be. Read more.

Implementing RFID-Driven Electronic Product Codes Could Save You $100M a Year

Counterfeit products cost the U.S. industry in excess of $1 billion per year, representing as much as $50-$100 million in lost revenue per major pharmaceutical manufacturer. Read more.

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