Afferenz is repositioning itself. The company operates in the U.S. but is a unit of Megasoft Consultants of India. Ven Thangaraj, president of Afferenz, is responsible for driving the strategic direction of the company. Its main product, Acceliant eClinical Suite, offers users real-time efficiency, ease-of-use in trial design, unparalleled flexibility, regulatory…more...

Quadrant Software has broken ground on a new $2 million headquarters in Tampa, Florida. The company offers paperless process management services to Abbott, Amgen, CVS and firms outside the life sciences. more...

The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) unveiled an enhanced online clinical trials registry, enabled by IBM search software. The IFPMA Clinical Trials Portal is a multi-national project involving pharmaceutical, biotech and vaccine trial information from companies in the US, Europe and Japan. The website enables patients and physicians…more...

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 to…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 Global…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 insights…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 with…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 predict…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 $63…more...