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To develop best IT practices for the Life Sciences industry, it is vital that the best-in-class technology is utilized for the unique and complex business challenges of this industry, which in turn will accelerate molecule-to-market cycle, reduce market risks, eliminate process inefficiencies and enhance product efficacy.
Cloud/SaaS based technologies and mobile delivery platforms are helping the Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences ISVs to push the horizon to increase productivity of clinical research and financial performance. On the other hand, advanced and focused process like BI and Test Automation are enabling them to find new avenues of cost optimization.
Silicus is an ardent believer of technology and the multifold benefits that can be bought by implementing right IT at the right place. Hence, we invest in continuous research of latest technological trends and its impact across industries, including Life Sciences. Our teams work on analyzing and building frameworks, accelerators and best practices that can bring transformational changes with minimum investment.
Jose Ramon Mosteiro
Ford Oxaal
Dayon Kane
John Ferrari
Umesh Verma
Dan Boehm
Bo Keyslay
Michael VaughnBI & Reporting
Life Sciences industry has numerous data-intensive processes like research reports, clinical trials, compliance submissions and adverse reporting. The overwhelming influx of data from external sources like providers, Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), insurance carriers etc. makes data integration and management a challenge for the enterprise. To derive value from this information heap, it is vital to have efficient data management and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions.
Be it an ISV developing a Clinical Decision Support System (DSS) or a Life Sciences company aiming to build solution around data extraction, integration, transformation and mining, Silicus can help with their significant and diverse expertise in this field. Below are few examples of BI solutions in Life Sciences that we have expertise in:
- Analytics for Research - High-end analytics tool to accelerate the speed and depth of research, bioinformatics & clinical investigation for large studies with very high data volume
- Clinical Analytics - Customized solutions for predictive analytics, visualization interfaces, online analytical processing and other clinical data mining and warehousing solutions
- Management Solutions - Compliance review systems, business control & review systems, team dashboard models, critical metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor performance, forecasting models to support profitability and risk trends
- Expertise in BI tools like Business Objects, IBM Cognos, MS SQL Analytics and Reporting Services etc.
- In a nutshell, we help you to make better enterprise decisions while you focus on the drug research and development process.
Mobility
Mobile applications have proven their mettle across industries and Life Sciences is no exception. The technology aptly suits to the distributed work involved in research, clinical trials, patient monitoring, physician/provider detailing etc. Having delivered successful projects in mobile-based solutions, Silicus is confident to bring in valuable expertise across varied mobile devices and networks. Below are few examples of mobile implementation in the life sciences industry, where Silicus can contribute towards successful implementation:
- Easy communication solutions for synching geographically distributed research teams
- Patient Adherence Solutions like patient scheduling, monitoring, alerts and notifications during clinical trials
- eDetailing and marketing through handheld device to accelerate sales processes of pharmaceutical drug and devices.
- Mobile scheduling, monitoring & tracking for supply-chain, drugs distribution etc.
Cloud & SaaS-based Solutions
Silicus excels in developing SaaS-based delivery models and cloud-based solutions. The solution is best suited for IT applications in Life Sciences industry as it aptly provides for the all the inherent requirements, some of which are listed below:
High computational power - For applications like bioinformatics, gene sequencing and predictive modeling, a cloud based solution can reduce the processing time from weeks to hours.
On-demand access – There are peak requirements for processing power and storage in complex solutions like molecule sequencing. A cloud/SaaS solution enables on-demand access to information, storage capacity & computational power at a fraction of the cost
Effective collaboration – Hosted solutions can provide a common platform for distributed workspace and research sites which need resource pooling and effective collaboration to facilitate for better information diagnostics and research analytics;
Quick deployments – Updating research prototypes in a license-based, single-tenant model involves inefficient duplication of effort. The cloud paradigm shifts this responsibility to the hosted vendor who manages a single infrastructure shared by multiple companies.
Having delivered successful projects in cloud and SaaS, Silicus is confident to bring across valuable technical expertise for any product development in this space.
Software Test Automation
Life Sciences industry has to deal with immense time crunch to bring the molecule to the market as soon as possible. This also propagates to the ISVs dealing in this domain. In such cases, test automation becomes a critical and strategic necessity. Automated, efficient, and advanced testing modules provide developers the ability to produce applications in less time, reduce defects and costs, accelerate the testing process and lifecycle turnaround time. It also helps free up resources, develop maintainable and extensible systems and increase productivity.
Our software test automation group maintains and updates a repository of in-house developed frameworks, tools and accelerators for Quick Test Pro and Selenium, two of the more popular automation testing platforms today.
QTP Test Automation Services - We have delivered several challenging and complex test automation projects on the QTP platform. Our QTP automation testing experts have developed a data driven test automation framework that we leverage across QTP projects.
Selenium Test Automation Services - We have used the Selenium IDE, Selenium Remote Control (RC) and the Selenium Grid to drive software test automation across web applications.