Qumas announced a new suite, and said it was priced at “half” of what the leading competition costs. It’s 21 CFR Part 11 compliant and has a minimal IT footprint, according to the company. Qumas serves the compliance software needs of the life sciences and financial services. It’s trying to help the industry deal with the electronic common technical document (eCTD). 

“Conventional submission management solutions are not enough,” explained Ken Hayward, head of the QUMAS life sciences division. “By combining content authoring, content management, real-time collaboration and submission management, we provide one integrated solution for all functional R&D areas.”

According to the company, the Qumas R&D Suite serves people working in regulatory, clinical, and quality departments. Key components of the new suite include: A regulatory content management system; a submissions management system for assembly and compilation of compliant paper and electronic dossiers based on the CTD standard; browser-based collaborative review and authoring solution in which everyone can simultaneously comment on the same copy of the document; eCTD authoring templates to simplify the process of automating and formatting guidance-compliant documents; and an import/export tool used to import and export large collections of documents or file folders to leverage existing data and files.