CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

24 February 2011

Company News

Pilgrim Software and QPharma Agree to Collaborative Alliance to Help Life Science Organizations Improve Operational Excellence

Pilgrim Software, Inc. announced that QPharma, Inc., a Life Sciences industry’s leader in FDA regulatory and compliance services, and Pilgrim have agreed to make QPharma’s comprehensive set of validation, quality and regulatory compliance consulting services available to their customers in collaboration with Pilgrim’s SmartSolve® suite of products.

Pilgrim offers integrated risk, compliance and quality management solutions that help highly regulated organizations remain compliant, recognize and preemptively address potential operational dangers, reduce costs, and operate more effectively. Through this alliance with Pilgrim, QPharma will leverage its Professional Services Business Unit for regulatory compliance spanning the product development lifecycle, from quality and validation solutions, to PDMA and fulfillment services.

This partnership will allow both companies to share resources, furthering each partner's vested interests in the Life Sciences industry, and will help organizations ensure that regulatory compliance efforts are addressed as part of a larger business process improvement initiative.

QPharma’s offerings address a broad range of quality services from simple audits to documentation development to enterprise-wide validation and compliance remediation programs. It also provides Engineering, PDMA Compliance, Sample Management, Fulfillment, Aggregate Spend, and Pharmacy Solutions to its clients through its three integrated business units and its FDA-compliant warehouse.

“Pilgrim and QPharma share a vision of executing successful software implementations, with knowledgeable consulting and support, that help organizations improve operational performance and ensure compliance with industry and regulatory standards,” said Prashanth Rajendran, Chief Operating Officer for Pilgrim Software.

"QPharma’s expertise in Life Sciences services, such as validation and quality systems, will help our highly regulated customers improve their processes and better prepare for automating their qualityand compliance solutions." By leveraging QPharma’s validation functionalities, and associated consulting services, Pilgrim is now able to provide its customers with more efficient and effective integrated ERCQM solutions.”

Through its integrated Quality solutions, Pilgrim supports its customers with significant operational improvements including capacity improvement, flexibility, on-time delivery, cycle-time reductions, labor productivity and cost reduction. Pilgrim provides the means to simplify key quality processes: Corrective/Preventive Action (CAPA), Customer Complaints, Engineering Control & Collaboration, Inspection Management, Nonconformance/OOS Management, and Supplier Quality Management. Other targeted solutions include Audit Management, Change Management, Document Management, Regulatory Reporting and Training Management, and Process and Analytics.

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