ShareFEST is sponsored by some of the leading vendors of SharePoint-based solutions and services. Sponsors include leading vendors of software solutions for managing SharePoint as an enterprise platform, and companies with specific applications based on SharePoint that address key business areas for pharmaceutical companies, medical device firms and contract research organizations. Leading services companies will also be participating on the exhibit floor and in the conference sessions, sharing their perspectives and best practices for implementing SharePoint as a life sciences solution.

PLATINUM SPONSORS

Microsoft provides standards-based products and technology to help the life science industry break down information barriers between the disparate IT environments across pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies. Our innovative technology and partner solutions help make critical information immediately available to key people who need it, while also making it easier to connect with other teams, sources of information, and the business processes across the company – ultimately helping researchers and life science organizations reach their full potential. More information about Microsoft Life Sciences can be found at www.microsoft.com/lifesciences.

NextDocs is the global leader in providing Microsoft SharePoint-based Compliance Software Solutions including Quality Management System, Regulatory Submissions, Document Management, and Clinical Portals. It enables businesses in regulated industries to achieve compliance with FDA and other agencies while automating processes, improving efficiency and dramatically reducing costs. NextDocs customers include Pharmaceutical companies, Bio-Techs, Medical Device companies and CROs. For more information on NextDocs Corporation and the software solutions visit www.nextdocs.com.

GOLD SPONSORS

BioClinica, Inc. is a leading global provider of integrated, technology-enhanced clinical trial services. BioClinica supports pharmaceutical and medical device innovation with imaging core lab, internet image transport, electronic data capture, interactive voice and web response, and clinical supply chain design and optimization solutions. BioClinica services maximize efficiency and manageability throughout all phases of the clinical trial process. BioClinica operates state-of-the-art, regulatory-body-compliant imaging core labs on two continents, and supports worldwide eClinical and data management services from offices in the United States and Europe. For more information, please visit www.bioclinica.com
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HighPoint Solutions solves the toughest IT challenges facing companies in the highly regulated life sciences and healthcare industries by providing our clients with practical IT strategies and solution implementations and giving them direct access to the people and technology that get things done. Since 2000, our 400 consultants have provided business consulting and technology solutions that continue to deliver business value and competitive advantage to more than 140 clients nationwide. For more information, visit www.highpoint-solutions.com.

K2 provides enterprise software products for automating enterprise business processes (K2 blackpearl), building SharePoint workflow solutions (K2 blackpoint) and integrating your solutions into SAP (K2 connect). K2 enables these process driven applications to be visually designed and assembled from reusable entities with no code, minimizing developer cycles, improving application lifecycle management and maximizing agility in application change. K2 has over 2000 customers in more than 50 countries.

LIQUENT is the premier provider of a scalable, regulatory information management platform and associated regulatory & clinical services that can be leveraged throughout a client organization in support of the development, registration, and manufacturing processes. LIQUENT provides technology and outsourcing solutions focused around regulatory submission preparation and tasks, dossier planning, eCTD to CTD publishing and registration tracking capabilities. For more information please visit, http://www.liquent.com

LORENZ is the most established provider of e-regulatory software and services in the world, focused on submission management, labelling and tracking. LORENZ docuBridge® was designed specifically to address the challenges facing submission managers in creating, quality control and publishing authorization dossiers (IND, NDA, eCTD, CTD, NeeS) in electronic and / or paper form. LORENZ’ solutions foster independence, empowering customers to develop their own processes and maintain control of their own intellectual property.

Paragon is a business consulting and systems integration firm specializing in Life Sciences solutions across the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. We help organizations define and implement holistic, strategic solutions that enable team collaboration and knowledge management, compliance and information governance, process optimization and integration. Paragon unlocks the full potential of Microsoft’s product platform, integrated applications and collaborative capabilities to redefine how knowledge workers and learning organizations function – Improving the Way Work Gets Done™. Contact us at 1.800.462.5582, extension 3043, or visit www.consultparagon.com.

SILVER SPONSORS

PleaseTech Ltd specializes in software solutions for the document review and co-authoring process and is a Microsoft Certified Partner. Our flagship product, PleaseReview™, is a collaborative solution for the review and co-authoring of Microsoft® Word® and review of Word and other document types. Adding secure, structured and controlled review and co-authoring capability to the SharePoint® environment, PleaseReview is proven to deliver clients with significant cost, time and other efficiency savings, offering an excellent ROI.

For nearly 15 years EXTEDO has been a key services and solutions provider in the field of regulatory data and document management (CTD, eCTD and other formats) for Life Sciences industries and authorities (Pharmaceutical, Crop Science, Chemicals). Based on industry and regulatory expertise and many years of experience EXTEDO provides highly standardized as well as customized solutions in the area of electronic Regulatory Affairs. EXTEDO is recognized worldwide across all our business activities. EXTEDO’s unique market position provides a tremendous amount of influence on new developments in the e-Regulatory Affairs sector as well as providing long term economic stability.
Company website: www.extedo.com

Mission3 is the leading regulatory information management software provider for the worldwide life science industry. Mission3′s flagship regulatory information management system, GlobalTrack, is a regulatory planning and tracking system platform, built on Microsoft SharePoint 2010, that provides life sciences companies’ unprecedented visibility into their global regulatory initiatives.
Large pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostic companies can seamlessly integrate existing technology infrastructure into GlobalTrack, allowing for improved collaboration and operations, faster processes and an overall increase in speed to market and business intelligence planning.Company website: www.mission3.com

PerkinElmer is the global platform delivering software and services for research, discovery, analysis and collaboration in the life sciences and chemical industries, academia and government. Products include ChemBioOffice, ChemBioDraw, E-Notebook, NexxisELN, and Ensemble for knowledge management and informatics; and LABWORKS LIMS, LimsLink, and Nexxis iLab for integrated laboratory systems.Company website: www.perkinelmer.com/informatics

RWD, a Division of GP is a global provider of human and operational performance improvement solutions in the Life Sciences industry. Since 1988, RWD has helped dozens of pharmaceutical customers implement and integrate customer relationship and content management technologies for regulated applications such as medical information and submissions management. RWD and Microsoft have partnered to deliver RWD’s infoMaestro Integrated Medical Communications Solution (IMCS) on top of Microsoft’s SharePoint Enterprise Content Management and Collaboration framework, creating an industry leading medical authoring and information management platform for Life Sciences.Company website: www.rwd.com

Valiance Partners provides products and services for successful data and content migrations in life science industries. For more than nine years, Valiance has managed hundreds of successful migrations for some of the world’s leading pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology brands. Valiance Partners brings an unparalleled knowledge of regulatory implications, business processes and precision results to every client engagement.

Valiance’s software products, TRUmigrate and TRUcompare, provide end-to-end data and content migration software solutions (including testing 100% of migrated data and content) for IT managers, validation managers and CQA teams. Valiance’s Professional Services help clients embark on migrations with the technology, business and compliance knowledge needed to succeed in regulated industries. Company website: www.valiancepartners.com

Sitrof brings dozens of years of experience implementing content management, document management and business process automation solutions for clients in life sciences. Sitrof has assisted seventeen of the top twenty pharmaceutical and biotech companiesto manage their unstructured content. Whether the need is to improve collaboration with external organizations, or to harmonize processes after a merger or acquisition, Sitrof has the right combination of people, processesand technology to solve your business problems. Company website: www.sitrof.com

Adlib is the leading expert in document-to-PDF transformation enabling organizations to reduce the financial exposure and risk of non-compliance with regulatory agencies; reduce IT costs by centralizing document transformation; and leverage content-to-PDF as a shared service across the enterprise. Adlib Express is the “Gold Standard” in server-based document-to-PDF transformation that automates the conversion, assembly, and enhancement of documents into searchable PDF or PDF/A for archiving. Adlib PDF Enterprise is the next-generation of document-to-PDF technology designed for demanding high-volume environments where accurate, scalable and highly available to improve business process automation company-wide. The SharePoint Workflow Connector in Adlib PDF delivers advanced content to PDF services to all users and workflows through a tight and seamless integration with Microsoft SharePoint. Company website: www.adlibsoftware.com

NNIT helps life science businesses use IT to achieve their business vision. We work with all phases of IT development from business consulting and solutions development to hosting, maintenance and management. Our experienced and highly skilled life science consultants have a strong focus on quality and in-depth knowledge of the pharma processes as well as technical know-how about SharePoint. Combined with our expertise in specific life science applications and configurations this enables our customers to fully benefit from the collaboration facilitated by SharePoint in a controlled GxP compliant environment.
Company website: www.nnit.com

With the focus of business process management (BPM) shifting from automation to innovation, differentiation, business agility, and improved customer satisfaction, OpenText BPS’s software suite provides the necessary solutions to retain your competitive edge in this age of transformation.

OpenText BPS is supported by a strong global partner network including SAP® and Microsoft®. OpenText BPS’s industry leadership has been recognized by global IT analyst firms including Gartner, Forrester, IDC and others.

Visit www.OpenTextBPM.com and www.OpentTextbpm.com/lifesciences for more information.

DoubleBridge Technologies is a leader of innovative Content Management IT solutions and services for the Life Sciences industry. We provide top-quality SharePoint and Documentum service and support for some of the largest Pharmaceutical companies in the world and our software is used by hundreds of organizations around the globe. DoubleBridge products include the SharePoint-based OrniPoint Life Science Suite (Falcon Regulatory EDMS and Griffin SharePoint-Documentum Connector) and the ROSETTA Regulatory Suite (Phoenix eCTD Viewer and Pyramid Submission & Correspondence Management System). As a Microsoft Certified Partner, the DoubleBridge SharePoint Center of Excellence is capable of providing the highest quality SharePoint customization, service and support to companies of any size. By utilizing rich domain knowledge, years of experience and advanced technical understanding, we are your content management experts.

Since 1994, Axceler solutions have enabled enterprises to simplify, optimize and secure their collaborative platforms. Today, Axceler is a leader in managing SharePoint governance, security, reporting and analysis. Among its numerous Microsoft SharePoint solutions, Axceler offers award-winning ControlPoint for administration and Davinci Migrator for migration. In 2011, ControlPoint won the Best of Connections Award, the Gold Editors’ Best Award and the Bronze Community Choice Award in the SharePoint category from the readers and editors of Windows IT Pro. More than 1,600 organizations worldwide are using Axceler products to control their SharePoint environments. Headquartered in Woburn, MA, USA, Axceler maintains offices in Seattle, Los Angeles, London and Sydney. For more information, visit http://www.axceler.com

GimmalSoft, a division of Gimmal, delivers market leading content governance and compliant records solutions built on SharePoint. GimmalSoft solutions drive user adoption and simplify information access by making information lifecycle management of content simple and transparent, ensuring consistent compliance and proactive litigation readiness enterprise-wide while lowering costs. GimmalSoft solutions benefit leading companies and government agencies who want to improve the effectiveness of information management for all of their users. For more information, visit www.gimmalsoft.com

CSC Life Sciences combines domain expertise, innovative technology and industry best practices to help clients achieve measurable business results. We accomplish this through a wide range of products and services that help clients manage the large amounts of data involved in bringing a product to market while meeting global regulatory requirements. Services include master data management, to best leverage enterprise-wide data; health informatics, to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information; and secure collaborations and regulated document management. In addition, end-to-end e-submission offerings include electronic submission, non–electronic Common Technical Document electronic submission, paper publishing and regulatory tracking. CSC is uniquely positioned to help clients obtain quantifiable business results and improved access to pharmaceutical innovations worldwide. For more information, visit www.csc.com

ARX (Algorithmic Research) is the provider of the leading Cosign® digital signature solution. Employed by over 20,000 FDA-regulated organizations including 9 of the top 10 Pharmaceuticals and 6 of the top 10 CROs, CoSign enables life sciences organizations to eliminate the costs and time allocations required by paper-based signatures and embrace secure and compliant paperless approval processes. Via seamless integration with Microsoft® SharePoint®, CoSign eliminates the reintroduction of paper in signature-dependent workflows while ensuring signer identity and intent, and document integrity. CoSign signatures are globally verifiable without requiring proprietary validation software, enabling trusted electronic document exchange and a truly collaborative environment for the multiple parties involved in the life science ecosystem. Watch a Digital Signatures for Life Sciences video to learn how life sciences organizations benefit from CoSign. For more information, visit www.arx.com

ChemAxon is a leader in providing cheminformatics software development platforms and desktop applications for the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. With core capabilities for structure visualization, search and management, property prediction, virtual synthesis, screening and drug design, ChemAxon focuses upon active interaction with users and software portability to create powerful, cost effective cross platform solutions and programming interfaces to power modern cheminformatics and chemical communication. The company is privately owned with European headquarters in Budapest and sales and support offices in Europe, Japan and North America. For further information please visit our web site. For more information, visit www.cheaxon.com

DITA Exchange is an independent software vendor and Microsoft partner helping organizations to establish a “single-source of truth” for customer-facing content, and to publish that content consistently across web pages, sales proposals, marketing collateral, product documentation and other business-critical documents.

To deliver this game-changing capability, DITA Exchange software enhances and extends existing investments in Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint to make it easy for employees to collaboratively create, review, approve and publish with greater consistency and in compliance with governance and regulatory requirements.

At ShareFEST, DITA Exchange will be joined by our partners at the ArborSys Group, a leading provider of business and technology consulting services focused on delivering solutions in regulated industries. ArborSys has deep experience implementing the Microsoft Intelligent Content Framework, using DITA Exchange software to accelerate the creation and delivery of higher-quality clinical trial documentation. For more information, visit www.dita-exchange.com

Since 1979, Technical Resources International, Inc (TRI) has improved the speed, quality and cost of clinical trials for Federal and private sector clients through our application of in-house medical expertise, technical capabilities and proven best practices. We provide system integration, software validation and custom development for forward-thinking organizations.

Pharmaceutical companies and Federal agencies face complex challenges in the management and oversight of clinical trials. TRI’s combined scientific and technical expertise accelerates trials in the private sector and ensures commercial solutions work effectively in the Federal environment, including direct integration with NLM, NCI and NIAID enterprise systems. For more information, visit www.tech-res.com

Increasing costs, longer timelines and staying ahead of the ever-changing regulatory requirements: these are some of the most daunting challenges the biopharmaceutical industry faces today. Consulting at Quintiles is your partner in this new health environment. Our multidisciplinary teams integrate clinical and technical expertise with strategic business acumen to give you the edge you need to win. Ultimately, we help you make better decisions – from early drug development through post-launch.

Quintiles is the only fully integrated bio-pharmaceutical services company offering clinical, commercial, consulting and capital solutions worldwide. The Quintiles network of more than 24,000 professionals in 60 countries works with an unwavering commitment to patients, safety, and ethics. We help biopharmaceutical companies navigate risk and seize opportunities in an environment where change is constant. As a pioneer in biopharmaceutical services, Quintiles has helped develop or commercialize all of the top 50 best-selling drugs. For more information, visit www.quintiles.com