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CDC Software Introduces Managed Software as a Service Enterprise Solution for Life Sciences

December 05, 2007

CDC Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation and a provider of industry-specific enterprise software applications and business services, has introduced its Software as a Service (SaaS) suite of applications for life sciences companies. The suit is specifically designed for life sciences and leverages the Ross Enterprise suite of applications.

 
The solution is suited for a broad array of emerging and mid-sized pharma and biopharma companies supporting GMP manufacturing, clinical supply operations, chargebacks for wholesaler distribution, and project/service-based organizations (CMO/CRO). These life sciences enterprises can choose an off-site hosted or an on-site managed deployment and they also have the option to choose a monthly subscription fee or traditional software license fee.
 
"Our managed SaaS offering for life sciences, we believe, is the only solution of its kind available today. We are meeting the specific needs of life sciences companies around the world by combining the industry solution expertise of CDC Software and Vantage Systems,” said Eric Musser, CEO and president of CDC Software. “We also believe our complete specialized software applications, combined with their hosting and specialized value-added services, provide the ideal solution for life science companies that need to avoid the overhead and risks of complex, internal deployments of their enterprise systems."
 
Meanwhile, CDC Software has partnered with Vantage Systems, a premium managed software service provider that specializes in the life sciences industry, to provide the Ross Enterprise applications for life sciences including enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain planning (SCP), customer relationship management (CRM), business process management (BPM), enterprise performance management (EPM), electronic batch records, contract and chargeback management and project accounting.
 
"Many emerging pharmaceutical and biopharma manufacturers and research organizations simply cannot afford license fees for a GMP validated system, long implementations or costly maintenance of typical enterprise software systems," said Bob Congiusti, CEO of Vantage Systems. "As their managed services provider, we are minimizing the high costs of maintaining an IT infrastructure and the industry-specific challenges of GMP assessments, validation, change control, outsource manufacturing collaboration, and chargeback processing."
 
 
Niladri Sekhar Nath is a contributing writer for ContactCenterSolutions covering telecommunications, service providers and networking.
 



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