Pacific Biosciences of California has signed an agreement with Cycle Computing for optimizing PacBio RS SMRT Analysis software for the cloud.

Acurian, a provider of clinical trial patient recruitment and retention solutions, has entered into an agreement with a pharma firm to handle patient recruitment and retention data.The agreement allows Acurian to use encryption and security standards to manage sensitive patient data handled within its Oracle- and cloud-based computing platforms known as Acurian Recruitment Manager and Acurian Retention Manager.

InnovoCommerce, LLC released the market leading innovoPOINT® 3.1 clinical and investigator portal solution for life science organizations. This solution, built on the Microsoft® SharePoint® platform, is used for secure document exchange, clinical trial business process automation and the streamlining of communications between sponsors, their CROs and investigator site partners. The innovoPOINT solution enables clinical organizations to manage clinical information and processes for all clinical studies in a secure and compliant manner.

Callidus Software said Pfizer has chosen iCentera Sales Enablement SaaS platform to support its sales team in the US, which includes internal sales, contract sales and channel partners.iCentera is a provider of SaaS-based sales enablement solutions.

ETH Zurich and CloudBroker, a provider of computing applications in the cloud, have selected IBM for cloud computing technology for conducting research to develop new antibiotics.

The European Medicines Agency and the European Network of Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP) have launched the ENCePP E-Register of Studies. This electronic register is a publicly accessible resource for the consultation of pharmaco-epidemiological and pharmacovigilance studies conducted by academic centres and other research organisations.