CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
November 13, 2008
Product News
Conformia Solution Enables an Integrated Information Environment for Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industries
Conformia, the market leader for product/process lifecycle management (PPLM) solutions for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, today announced the availability of an “out-of-the-box” Integrated Information Environment for large pharmaceutical and biotechnology process/product development divisions. Conformia’s unique approach utilizes a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to provide a central hub for integrating multiple source systems of mission critical data across the product/process development IT landscape. The system allows scientists and researchers to incorporate a greater level of detail into the development process while utilizing one consolidated central view, resulting in a cost-effective and powerful new approach in drug development and management of the data for years to come.
Early on, Conformia recognized that pharmaceutical companies struggle to integrate core data across the research and development lifecycle. Most companies operate with multiple systems and are challenged with efficiently and effectively unifying them into one system. “When they do integrate in today’s environment, it is typically through a point-to-point approach which is costly to manage and underachieving in the long term,” said Vinay Ambekar, vice president of engineering for Conformia.
These systems range from manufacturing execution systems, enterprise resource planning, laboratory information management systems (LIMS), electronic lab notebooks, project management, data analysis and process automation tools to multiple homegrown systems, such as spreadsheets and paper notebooks.
Conformia’s Integrated Information Environment supports SAP, Oracle and IBM environments and allows companies to integrate multiple systems like IBM Maximo, EMC Documentum, LIMS and other homegrown systems through a hub-and-spoke approach, providing a cost-effective, high-quality approach to the organization in challenging economic times.
“Various companies have tried to tie the systems together themselves and found the costs to be prohibitive,” said Anjali Kataria, founder and chief marketing officer of Conformia. “They also lost development time while trying to get the systems to communicate and ultimately found that the business results were subpar when they tried to do the integrations on their own.”
The Conformia approach not only provides the backbone from which to hang all these key systems, but it also brings a whole family of enterprise solutions that support the SAP, Oracle and IBM environments. “This can only mean good things for the research and development lifecycle and for providing information to those who want it at the time they need it in an efficient and cost-effective manner,” said Kataria.
Become a member of the CIMdata PLM Community to receive your daily PLM news and much more.
Tell us what you think of the CIMdata Newsletter. Send your feedback.
CIMdata is committed to your privacy. Your personal information will never be sold or shared outside of CIMdata without your express permission.