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SAS, Medidata Partner
The leading biostatistical house and a top EDC vendor say they have a better way to move clinical data toward analysis.
The software that ordinary people prefer is getting simpler. Easier. And it’s increasingly running not on a desktop computer, like Microsoft Word, but online. Last year, the web ratings firm comScore estimated in this Powerpoint deck that, in the U.S., an impressive 78 percent of users had tried a small, internet program called a widget. Widgets are apparently more popular than watching online video, the firm says. Now the trend is starting to ripple through the business world. One of the heaviest pieces of iron in the industry—SAS Drug Development—is now available in an online mode. In its so-called “on demand” offering, SAS hosts the program, and users log on via the internet. SAS’s goal is to have customers up and running on the system in a month. Life science firms’ IT departments need not be involved in setting up SAS Drug Development in this approach. But unlike widgets for consumers,…more...
