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18 May 2005

Product News

Arbortext's Pharmaceutical Application Provides for Immediate Cost-Effective SPL Compliance

Arbortext announced it will release its Publishing Pack for Pharmaceutical Product Information in July 2005. Designed to maintain consistent product information across all package, label and promotional output, this new application from Arbortext enables life sciences organizations to address immediate SPL compliance requirements efficiently and cost effectively.

Although various options exist for submitting SPL-compliant files, creating and managing labeling content in XML has significant advantages over bolting an SPL solution on top of traditional authoring processes. With its SPL application, Arbortext standardizes and automates the process so that life sciences organizations can:

•  Reduce non-compliance risk by eliminating redundant sources of product information across the enterprise

•  Achieve and maintain compliance with emerging health authority standards

•  Improve quality of product information outputs and reduce the time and cost associated with managing product information by eliminating manual tasks associated with creation, review, approval and publishing of labeling content for multiple sources

•  Increase efficiency of labeling content management process

•  Improve overall time to market

Life sciences organizations that purchase the Arbortext Publishing Pack for Pharmaceutical Product Information will receive:

•  Mature XML authoring and publishing tools

•  Fully-supported application for creating and managing SPL content

•  Intuitive, user-friendly environment for creating both narrative content and structured data required for SPL

•  Ability to automate the conversion of existing labeling content to SPL

"When life sciences organizations create content using XML, they are able to streamline additional processes beyond those that only support regulatory compliance mandates," said Joe Jenkins, Director of Marketing for Life Sciences at Arbortext. "It's very important for organizations to understand the difference between merely producing valid SPL content and building a cost-effective infrastructure to support long-term initiatives. Our application is a first step for organizations that are developing a forward-looking publishing strategy to improve control over the entire labeling content supply chain."

Information about the Pharmaceutical Product Information application can be found at http://www.arbortext.com/Products/spl.htm .

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