M. Denis Connaghan is the new CEO at etrials. He’s been on the job a bit more than a month, since mid-November, and had just returned from meetings with clients on the west coast when we rang him up for a chat. “I didn’t hear, ‘we need another product from you. We need another technology from you,’”…more...

It’s a common problem. Stroll around with $193 million in cash for a while, as Phase Forward has, and soon you will find something to purchase. So it was with Clarix Informatics, a provider of an interactive voice response system (IVRS) that became the latest technology to be added to the Phase Forward cupboard. Last week’s deal…more...

The gap was glaring. And it has been filled. For the first time, more than a decade after the technology emerged, Parexel can offer customers a viable electronic data capture (EDC) solution. Last week, the Waltham, Mass. company concluded its $192 million acquisition of ClinPhone, based in Nottingham, UK. Parexel will now have approximately 1,500 people providing…more...

We’re not sure if our timing was fortuitous or terrible. Last month, well before a merger agreement that is expected to lead to his company being acquired for $192 million by Parexel International, ClinPhone CEO Steve Kent discussed the state of the industry with ClinPage. At the time, he was vague about the possibility of another bid…more...