14 October 2011| Article by Birgitte Agergaard

Article by Birgitte Agergaard, Marketing Consultant, NNIT

In the pre-cloud era, each life science company bought their own applications from software vendors – or rather they bought bundles of licenses, based on an estimate of the number of users over a certain period. This procedure necessitates that you scan the market, find a trusted vendor, validate the vendor and purchase the applications you need, and perhaps customise them to fit your particular business needs, not to mention validate the application and the full stack. The entire process easily takes from one to three years before deployment. Then, finally, you are operational. Talk about latency!

Do more with less – and do it fast, please
However, in a time when one of the prevailing business mantras is “Do more with less – and do it fast, please” the GxP Cloud offers a number of opportunities. And one of the interesting aspects of the GxP Cloud is the new way it facilitates the distribution of software.

Equalise procedure with business
In our experience, you actually need the same facility as about 75% of your competitors. This is one of the realisations that has been driving the Cloud and the offering of pre-packaged standardised software solutions. Although life science is obliged to put procedure above business, the industry is gradually arriving at the recognition that the pre-packaged standardised software solution is adequate even in the complex life science environment. And, in the cloud, it is actually possible to equalise procedure with business.

Faster from purchase to play
First of all, with the shared GxP Cloud platform and its supply of Software as a Service (SaaS), you can skip purchasing expensive software licenses and reduce the timespan from purchase to action. Instead, you must buy into the concept of subscribing to software as a centralised resource which can be distributed to many, leading to obvious cost and time savings. By purchasing Software as a Service, you achieve further significant benefits:

• Access to a fully optimised GXP application portfolio
• Pre-packaged and validated solutions ready to deploy and use within only a few weeks
• No applications management- meaning your internal resources are at liberty to perform other and more strategic tasks.

In other words, the GxP Cloud facilitates an unprecedented and fast access to the latest computer technology and a series of applications which can boost efficiency and, when properly used, create a real competitive advantage.

A new business ecosystem
In the GxP Cloud, NNIT will make an application portfolio available to you on a secure and shared platform. We are currently establishing partnerships with selected Independent Software Vendors (ISV). It is our vision to match and sustain the entire life science value chain from Drug Development to Pharmaceutical Marketing. Their pre-packaged and validated software will allow you to fully utilise the cloud potential. From now on, you can simply subscribe to the applications you require – and if you need a certain amount of individual configuration, this is still possible in NNIT’s GxP Cloud.

With this formation, life science companies, software vendors and NNIT enter into a new way of doing business – a new business ecosystem – whose most significant trait is the business enablement immanent in the fast access and deployment of GxP applications without compromising quality, compliance and security.

More information about SaaS in the GxP Cloud?
Call us if you would like to know more about how to take advantage of the business enablement inherent in SaaS. Please contact Esben Schnurre, Solution Manager, NNIT here or on +45 3075 3331.