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FEATURESTORY
Cloud-Based Collaborative
Platforms
■ By Tom Johnson
The cloud-based
collaborative
platform
can better
engage field
employees.
F
or life sciences companies, collaboration
always has been the essential ingredient
for conducting business. e easier and
more seamlessly employees can share
information with one another, the more
effective they can be. e larger and more
geographically dispersed the enterprise, the
greater the challenge of putting the appropriate
systems and processes in place.
e transition to a partner-centric model for
the development of new drugs and therapies
raises the stakes and the complexity of
collaboration. How do parties align
heterogeneous systems and processes to
exchange documents and data? And how can
sensitive information and intellectual property
be protected from unauthorized access and
distribution? If the solutions are too
cumbersome, they will introduce
vulnerabilities, fail to gather critical mass for
adoption, hinder productivity or all of the
above.
Cloud-Based Collaboration
What life sciences organizations - from
manufacturers and CROs to investigators and
academia - need to bring them together is a
cloud-based collaborative platform. e cloudbased collaborative platform can be used
internally within the enterprise to better engage
field employees. It also can be used externally
across enterprises to deploy a single system, a
consistent set of processes and workflows, and a
single source-of-truth for information storage,
handling, and sharing.
Picking a cloud-based collaborative platform
that delivers on that promise requires an
assessment across two vectors: security and
functionality.
For security, the cloud-based collaborative
platform should include the following
capabilities:
* Single Sign-On - e platform should be
able to engage with an identity and access
management solution that allows individuals
to use existing passwords or credentials. e
more credentials users must maintain, the
greater the potential for loss or compromise.
* Multiple Tiers - All documents and data
shouldn't be treated identically. e
platform should require stronger credentials
for environments where sensitive
information is involved, to ensure protection
and compliance with regulatory mandates.
Higher tiers can incorporate sensitive
document exchange policies and controls to
further strengthen security.
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