Microsoft Announces 2006 Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award Winners
20 6월 2006 - 8:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
Awards Honor Companies Creating Breakthroughs in Pharmaceutical and
Life Sciences Industry Through the Use of Microsoft Technology
PHILADELPHIA, June 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp.
(Nasal: MSFT) today announced winners of the Microsoft(R)
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Awards 2006, honoring
the breakthrough contributions that new and innovative solutions
are making in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry in the
areas of sales and marketing, manufacturing and supply chain, and
clinical development. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO) The awards,
announced at the annual meeting of the Drug Information Association
(DIA) in Philadelphia, were given to companies that have
demonstrated the best use of Microsoft-based solutions for
breakthroughs in business processes and practices in each of the
categories. "At Microsoft, we believe that innovative technology
use in life sciences can create revolutionary new ways of doing
business, resulting in breakthroughs in research, product
innovation and corporate performance," said Steve Shihadeh, general
manager of healthcare and life sciences at Microsoft. "The
companies we are recognizing today exemplify a transformative use
of technology and are helping their people better connect and
collaborate, as well as make more-informed decisions that drive
overall business success." Award Winners Award participants
consisted of worldwide life sciences corporations in biotechnology,
diagnostics, medical equipment and devices, pharmaceuticals, animal
health, nutritional products, and consumer health products. The
winners of this year's Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation
Awards are listed here: Sales and Marketing -- GlaxoSmithKline
(GSK) Inc., Mississauga, Ontario. GlaxoSmithKline is one of the
world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare
companies and is committed to improving the quality of human life
by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. GSK's
solution utilizes a Tablet PC, powered by Windows(R) XP Tablet PC
Edition, and Proscape Technologies Inc.'s software. The solution
has allowed GSK to dramatically reduce the cycle time between
introducing a new product marketing campaign and measuring its
results. By using Proscape's software, a sales representative can
easily, quickly and effectively convey key product information in
an engaging and memorable way through multimedia presentations
running on the Tablet PC. Based on data from GSK's CRM application,
these presentations can be tailored for different market segments,
thereby maximizing their educational value. Manufacturing and
Supply Chain -- ALTANA Pharma AG, Konstanz, Germany. ALTANA Pharma
AG is the pharmaceutical division of ALTANA AG (FSE: ALT; NYSE:
AAA), which has its headquarters in Konstanz, Germany. ALTANA
Pharma is an internationally successful, research-based company
providing innovative pharmaceuticals that create a higher quality
of life for patients, modern jobs for highly qualified employees,
and a good return for shareholders. In 2005, ALTANA Pharma AG
implemented Wassermann AG's wayRTS (Real Time Simulation) solution
-- a 64-bit application using Windows Server(R) 2003, Visual
Studio(R) 2005, Visual SourceSafe(R) and the 2003 Microsoft Office
system -- for the operational planning, simulation and scheduling
of its largest supply chain across three production sites and eight
sales units. The resulting quality improvement leads to a
significantly reduced error rate. Because the process schedules are
more reliable and therefore more stable, significantly less time is
spent on discussions about better production sequences or
rescheduling in general. -- Pfizer Inc., New York. Pfizer Inc. is
the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company,
employing more than 115,000 people. Dedicated to better health and
greater access to healthcare for people and their animals, its
purpose is to help people live longer, healthier and happier lives.
The company also houses the industry's largest pharmaceutical
R&D organization: Pfizer Global Research and Development.
Pfizer's solution, Catalyst, utilizes several Microsoft
technologies, including .NET, BizTalk(R) Server, SQL Server(TM) and
SharePoint(R) Portal Server. Catalyst allows industry workers to
design, schedule and analyze pharmaceutical manufacturing processes
using a graphical user interface in a fraction of the time required
by existing electronic and manual systems. While the engineer
designs the process, Catalyst calculates detailed design data such
as material balances, time-cycle analysis and environmental
emissions, as well as automatically configuring shop floor
execution and reporting systems. The solution will radically reduce
the need for manual review of process data to support a real-time
quality system. Clinical Development -- PRA International, Reston,
Va. PRA International is one of the world's leading global clinical
research organizations, with more than 2,400 employees working from
offices in North America, Europe, South America, Africa, Australia
and Asia. PRA delivers services to its clients through a unique
approach called Project Assurance, which represents the company's
commitment to reliable service delivery; program-level therapeutic
expertise; easy, global access to knowledge; and involved senior
management. With the help of DataLabs, Inc., PRA International
rolled out FlexDMS powered by DataLabs Clinical, using Microsoft
Active Directory(R), Internet Information Services 6.0, and
Microsoft Cluster Server technologies. FlexDMS is a single data
management system that unifies the functionality of paper data
entry (PDE) with the flexibility of electronic data capture (EDC)
into one, easy-to-use electronic clinical data management platform.
The solution allows users to design a clinical study once; collect
the data either through PDE, EDC or a combination of formats; and
then clean and manage the data using the same system and virtually
the same process. PRA operates FlexDMS on a common global platform
that integrates the company's data management facilities in Lenexa,
Kan.; Victoria, British Columbia; Swansea, Wales; and a new
facility in Pune, India. Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences
Innovation Award winners were selected by an esteemed panel of
industry experts: -- Philip P. Gerbino, PharmD president,
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia -- Scott Lundstrom,
research vice president, Life Science Insights, an IDC company --
Benjamin M.W. Rooks, vice president, William Blair & Co. --
Salvatore Salamone, senior contributing editor, "Bio-IT World" More
information about the winners will be highlighted on the Microsoft
Life Sciences Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/lifesciences.
More information about the awards can be obtained by contacting
Monika Skibeness at or +1-425-316-3079. About Microsoft in
Healthcare and Life Sciences Microsoft provides standards-based
products and technology to help the healthcare and life sciences
industries break down information barriers between the disparate IT
environments across pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical
device companies, physicians and healthcare professionals, provider
organizations, government and private-sector employers, health
insurers, and consumers. Microsoft's vision for knowledge-driven
health utilizes the company's market-leading technology to help
these groups integrate their systems, dramatically enhance
collaboration, and increase information sharing and learning --
ultimately resulting in the ability to deliver high-quality
products and services to patients and consumers worldwide. More
information about Microsoft in Healthcare and Life Sciences can be
found at http://www.microsoft.com/healthcare. About Microsoft
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