Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences

Overview

The world’s leading pharmaceutical and life sciences companies choose Cognos software to improve product development, increase operational performance, drive revenue and market share, and comply with regulatory requirements. For them we offer:

The Right Technology and Solutions

Cognos, an IBM company, provides an integrated platform for performance management. It leverages critical data systems including ERP. And it delivers the scorecarding, reporting and analysis, and planning tools to optimize performance. With Cognos, organizations can improve their ability to make timely, informed decisions in all areas – clinical R&D, manufacturing, operations, and finance.

Cognos performance management software enables pharmaceuticals and life sciences companies to:

  • Gain a complete view of the clinical development process to increase clinical efficiency and optimize the cost/value relationship
  • Monitor performance against key milestones such as investigator selection, IRBs, site initiations, enrollment, drug shipments, and availability
  • Integrate plans and budgets to provide visibility into clinical spending, predict clinical expenses, and maximize financial capital leverage
  • Aggregate customer, channel, and product data for a single view of sales volume and to drive more targeted deployment
  • Enable driver-based planning to make better decisions about resource allocations such as marketing programs, advertising, and samples
  • Improve contracting effectiveness through better planning and analysis of key performance indicators (KPIs), historical performance, and scenario analysis
  • Structure data and reporting to comply with HIPAA, CFR 21, PDMA, state marketing regulations, and FDA NDA processes.

The Fastest Methods

To speed software deployment and maximize ROI, Cognos offers a full suite of IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints. The Blueprints address business intelligence, planning, and performance management process areas that directly impact an organization’s ability to create business value. They consist of pre-built data, process, and policy models based on proven best practices in pharmaceuticals planning, budgeting, and forecasting. They provide the fastest means to effectively align strategy and execution:

The Requisite Experience

Many of the top players in this industry already choose Cognos, including:

  • 25 of the top 30 pharmaceutical firms
  • Leading life sciences and biotech companies.

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IBM Cognos Clinical Forecasting Performance Blueprint
Online Demo
Learn proven best practices in enrollment indicators that can affect the progress of costly clinical trials.
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Healthcare Customer Story Bundle
Success Story
Read how leading healthcare providers such as Martin’s Point and Vitas are increasing profitability and serving patients better with Cognos.
10 Ways to Drive Performance: Pharmaceutical Sales and Marketing
White Paper
It starts with identifying your most valuable customers. It ends with budgets you can trust, and clear metrics you can track and share across your organization.
Pharma Perspectives
Article
A paper that offers perspectives on the pharmaceutical industry. Learn about the move toward targeted consumer-driven strategies in sales and marketing. Also discussed are two Cognos Blueprint solutions for managing costs and patient enrollment in clinical trials.
Clinical Trials Performance Management
Online Demo
Driving Game-Changing Financial Performance:A Case Study with MDS Pharma
Web Seminar On-Demand
Learn how one organization introduced performance tools and concepts that allowed it to measure financial and sales KPIs, proactively monitor business operations, and manage its business with near-real-time visibility using dashboard metrics and reports.