SAP, the German software company, will triple its research staff in China and spend up to $150 million there through 2008. Sales in China are growing twice as fast as the industry rate of 13 percent a year. SAP’s revenues in the country rose 42 percent in 2004, partly thanks… more...

One of the leading firms in drug safety software, Relsys, has a new VP of global sales. John Loucks who joins the firm after 12 years with the SAS in various positions, most recently as the national sales director for the life sciences division as the company’s Vice President of… more...

MicroStrategy, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software and SPSS, a leading worldwide provider of predictive analytics software, today announced that they have a strategic alliance. The two companies will engage in joint business development and cooperative marketing programs. By combining MicroStrategy’s advanced business intelligence technology with the leading-edge… more...

PharmaLink signed a three-year license to extend its use of Phase Forward’s software for electronic data capture (EDC). PharmaLink dubs itself an electronic contract research organization (eCRO), and said the tools would allow it to be more effective. “We realized InForm’s benefits long ago and have shared many successful implementations… more...

The FDA announced a new project to study drug safety. The FDA is not officially involved in the effort, but heralded the Predictive Safety Testing Consortium all the same. The consortium combines the efforts of Arizona’s quasi-governmental C-Path Institute and five pharmaceutical companies. They’ll share internally developed laboratory methods to… more...

PHT, the patient diary company, is having a webinar on electronic patient-reported outcomes. You can register for the online event here: /www.phtcorp.com/Subjects/>>>. Valdo Arnera, M.D., will re-deliver his presentation from the European Drug Information Association (DIA) meeting held earlier this year. Topics include the anxiety subjects may feel using technology,… more...

One large American company accused another of lying to America’s dentists. Procter & Gamble says Pfizer ads for Listerine mouthwash are erroneous. Pfizer has similar complaints about Procter & Gamble’s mouthwash. It’s all playing out in federal court in New York. Some of the numbers are interesting. P&G has spent… more...

Database giant Oracle said profits for the recent quarter were $765 million, a sharp rise above the $540 million at the same point a year ago. Revenue was up 18 percent, to $3.5 billion. Sales of new licenses totaled $1.1 billion during the period. It’s no secret that much of… more...

British and German police are considering criminal charges in the wake of a clinical trial gone awry in London. It’s not clear whether the target of such an investigation would be the sponsor of the trial, TeGenero AG, or the contract research organization (CRO) conducting it, Parexel International. Investors punished… more...

Bayer has selected biomarker informatics software from Genedata. The gene expression tools will be used at multiple research sites in Germany and U.S. that are studying cancer and heart disease. The Genedata Expressionist product is designed for data integration, processing and analysis. It uses statistical algorithms and visualization tools with… more...