Technology Assessment and Acquisition System for a top Biotechnology company.

  Overview

Maintaining a competitive edge in the drug discovery research disciplines requires an efficient and effective process for locating, evaluating and using the best technologies.

Discoverture consultants have created solutions that allow researchers, sales people, legal team, licensing group and other analysts to collaborate on the assessment and acquisition of drug delivery technologies, molecules, and laboratory automation equipment.

  Opportunity Summary

A large biotechnology company found that is was spending a great deal of researchers’ time tracking down new drug delivery technologies to enhance their existing product portfolio. Multiple researchers employed ad-hoc processes to locate and assemble large volumes of physical and electronic documentation. However, the interdependent nature of these technologies and vendors often resulted in repeated and inefficient explorations.

  Solution

Our consultants worked with the researchers to develop an intranet-based collaborative application that assists in tracking, assessing and reporting on emerging and developing drug delivery technologies. The system manages all information, correspondence, messages, notes, annotations, evaluations and other documentation on these technologies and the companies that develop them. An additional feature introduced by our consultants is the effective integration of the application with the corporate e-mail system in order to make it easier to capture and categorize e-mail texts and attachments. The application was built as a scaleable J2EE application with an Oracle database back end. The system also integrates with the department’s document management system, the corporate email system, and the enterprise LDAP Directory Server for user authentication.

  Benefits

As a result of the system deployment and training, the researchers can now easily collaborate in their research, avoiding a costly duplication of effort. The system manages and shares all of the study data in a consistent manner, streamlining the researchers’ work and increasing group efficacy. The users now benefit from a simple searching mechanism for all documents and related information. In particular, the users really appreciate the email integration that allows them to populate the research database without leaving their email system or interrupting their daily routine.