We just arrived back from the 47th annual DIA meeting in Chicago. We spent our time meeting up with colleagues and friends, learning, and finding out what’s new in the industry.
Sitrof was glad to hear that DDMAC submissions will be accepted in eCTD format by the FDA by 2012. Our product, Approve-PTS will be enhanced to support this. Approve-PTS, built on Microsoft SharePoint 2010, connects outside creative agencies, marketing teams and regulatory reviewer--allowing marketing materials to get reviewed, approved and published in the most efficient manner possible.
Speaking of Microsoft, we saw their huge display booth along with NextDocs and Liquent – their offerings look good and traffic was high at all three booths. We imagine booth traffic was higher for these vendors since both EMC (IIG) and CSC were not in attendance.
As expected, a lot of sessions and vendors were talking about the cloud. In the content management space, companies like Box and SpringCM are gaining traction but it’s clear the life sciences industry is not ready to put their GxP related documentation in the cloud without it first being validated. Vevva Systems is looking to change that with their Vault solution which is a cloud enabled content management solution built from the ground up with the Life Sciences industry in mind. It will be interesting to see how this solution can compete with traditional on-premise solutions like Documentum and SharePoint
