The world's leading pharmaceutical and life sciences companies choose IBM 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
IBM Cognos software provides an integrated platform for performance management. It leverages critical data systems including ERP. And it delivers the scorecarding, reporting, analysis and planning tools to optimize performance. With IBM Cognos software, organizations can improve their ability to make timely, informed decisions in all areas: clinical R&D, manufacturing, operations and finance.
IBM Cognos 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 prebuilt 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 IBM Cognos software, including:
- 25 of the top 30 pharmaceutical firms.
- Leading life sciences and biotech companies.
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Pharma resources
- 10 Ways to Drive Performance: Pharmaceutical Sales and Marketing white paper (100KB)
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.
- Performance Management in Healthcare white paper (358KB)
- IBM Cognos Clinical Forecasting Performance Blueprint demo
Learn proven best practices in enrollment indicators that can affect the progress of costly clinical trials.