IT & Data Management

Pacific Biosciences of California has signed an agreement with Cycle Computing for optimizing PacBio RS SMRT Analysis software for the cloud. The cloud-based version of the SMRT Analysis software suite is designed to offer...

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. ...

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...

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. Under the agreement, the researchers of ETH Zurich's Institute of...

  It seems every industry is jumping on the social media bandwagon. But how can social media prove beneficial to the tightly regulated world of pharmaceuticals? The drug manufacturing industry is under increasing pressure and scrutiny. Now more than...

Three of the world’s biggest pharma companies are joining forces to try and combat Asia’s ‘cancer epidemic’ The figures are startling: Asia-Pacific makes up about half of the world’s cancer deaths and the region is projected to log around...

Every other industry is getting on the social media bandwagon. But could social media actually prove beneficial to the world of pharma? Outside of the pharmaceutical industry, business is continually finding innovative ways to make use of social media...