{"id":8900,"date":"2017-06-19T11:28:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T11:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arisglobal.com\/bkp-site\/?p=8900"},"modified":"2017-06-19T11:28:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T11:28:59","slug":"breaking-silos-across-life-sciences-enterprise-helps-drive-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arisglobal.com\/blogs\/breaking-silos-across-life-sciences-enterprise-helps-drive-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down Silos across the Life Sciences Enterprise Helps Drive Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Silos have long plagued the life sciences industry, and nowhere is this more notable than with how information and data are shared across the product life cycle.<\/p>\n

As life sciences companies look to bring innovative new drugs to market, they are seeking progressive ways to resolve long-standing issues that hinder regulatory compliance, productivity and total cost of ownership (TCO).<\/p>\n

Being able to bring together seemingly disparate tasks \u2013 clinical data management, medical information management, global regulatory affairs functions, pharmacovigilance and safety and beyond to commercialization and marketing \u2013 onto a single platform, where data can be shared and analyzed with ease will dramatically improve processes.<\/p>\n

Given the clear benefits, what have been the barriers to better integration?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the past few years, progressive life sciences companies have moved steadily toward a more holistic state with managing their data, for example through progressive regulatory information management systems, medical information management software, adverse event management systems, clinical trial management systems (CTMS), and risk management software solutions, among others.<\/p>\n

But until more recently, technology and infrastructure \u2013 while certainly providing huge benefits to companies in terms of managing their data \u2013 weren\u2019t able to go beyond and connect organizational data across multiple functions. A real transformation \u2013 one that connects every primary function of the product lifecycle \u2013 was paramount.<\/p>\n

How has that transformation been made possible?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

At the top of the list, the increasing move toward open architecture and seamless integrations is removing the barriers and enabling end-to-end management of the product lifecycle. A single platform can only be made possible by moving beyond limited and rigid infrastructure and processes.<\/p>\n

Open architecture, one that can be integrated with solutions from multiple vendors, will improve cross-functional process efficiencies, collaboration, control and visibility of information to deliver a single source of truth.<\/p>\n

Among the other critical elements to transformation are:<\/p>\n