(Source: Business Wire)
TranSenda International, LLC, today announced the release of Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager to help life sciences companies fully utilize their familiar Microsoft Office tools while managing clinical trial research projects. Based upon Clinical Trial Manager, TranSenda's popular next-generation clinical trial management system (CTMS), Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager, works in concert with the Microsoft Office System to make study professionals' lives dramatically simpler and more productive.
Study professionals are now able to work within their favorite Office tools--like Microsoft Office Word, Excel and Outlook--while interchanging data, tasks and information with their clinical trial software. TranSenda's Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager eliminates wasted time caused by switching between clinical applications and other sources of data, providing study professionals with the up-to-date information they need to effectively and efficiently manage their trials. TranSenda customers are now benefiting first-hand from this unprecedented level of connectivity to the Microsoft Office System.
With Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager, study professionals can use the familiar Microsoft Office front-end interface--and organizations can benefit from reduced training and more rapid software adoption. In many situations, clinical research associates can do all of their work within the Microsoft Office System. For example, site visit reports can be completed through Outlook with no need to use, much less learn, other software. "Every organization involved in the management of clinical trials has a need to provide real-time access to the information within their CTMS in an easy to use, controlled environment," said Jeremiah Rehm, TranSenda's director of product management and sales engineering. "Providing this information through the Microsoft Office products that their personnel are already trained on and use every day is exactly what the industry has been requesting for a long time, and we're pleased to deliver it."
In addition to basic gains in productivity, Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager utilizes TranSenda's patent-pending ClinBUS(R) data interchange technology to make clinical data available to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This innovative approach to data exchange enables users to take advantage of Microsoft's powerful portal collaboration technology to connect teams and data as never before. Information can be easily controlled, communicated, and coordinated between people and applications. Study teams can share trial information through targeted portals, calendars, documents, email and more. Keeping up with workflow, such as the latest standard operating procedures, can be managed across and within the Microsoft Office System. And visibility into progress metrics is also made easier when your study software is Office-Smart. The Microsoft Office-based flexible dashboard technology enables the display of secure real-time data in a wide variety of configurable formats on a need to know basis.
"TranSenda has created powerful, easy-to-use technology that combines the pervasiveness of the Microsoft Office environment with proven clinical trial solutions," said Michael Naimoli, U.S. life sciences industry director, Microsoft Corp. "The Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager is a compelling application that will enable our mutual customers in clinical research to maximize their investment in Microsoft technologies and conduct clinical trials more easily and seamlessly, saving time and money."
About TranSenda
TranSenda is committed to transforming the clinical trial software environment by delivering solutions that address the underserved need to improve the "business-process" side of clinical trial operations. With its innovative Office-Smart clinical trial software, TranSenda's customers can take full advantage of the Microsoft Office System to create a more efficient workplace that unifies study software with the practical business side of Office productivity tools. TranSenda International, LLC, is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, USA. For more information, visit http://www.transenda.com.
