Based upon Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007 to create an "Office-Smart" CTMS

Boston - June 23, 2008

TranSenda International, LLC, today announced the launch of Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager, a unique clinical trial management system (CTMS) that addresses the need to unify study software with the 2007 Microsoft Office System. Clinical trial professionals are often frustrated with the inefficiencies surrounding study software that does not work with their Microsoft Office software. With the introduction of TranSenda's Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manger, clinical trial professionals can now take full advantage of the familiar, widely supported and easy-to-use Microsoft Office System.

Clinical trial professionals can experience a truly new work environment in which their study software works in harmony with their familiar Microsoft Office software. With the release of Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager, users can leverage their favorite Office tools-like Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Outlook-within the regulated environment of a clinical trial management system. Mismatched data from workaround spreadsheets that stand outside of the clinical trial management software system can become a thing of the past. Study professionals who currently deal with extra data entry and numerous application interfaces that don't "talk" to their email or spreadsheets, can now simplify their lives. "Road warriors" can achieve unprecedented levels of connectivity through a single source for critical study data, documents and communication. For example, while on the road, a Clinical Research Associate can access managed Microsoft Office Word documents like the latest SOPs, create site visit reports, and even trigger workflow for an approval process-all accomplished through Outlook's familiar environment.

TranSenda's Office-Smart Trial Manager-an Office Business Application (OBA)-builds upon both the 2007 Microsoft Office System, which provides a familiar, front-end interface, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), which delivers powerful portal collaboration technology to improve teamwork, communication and connectivity. In short, the Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager works in concert with MOSS to create an "Office-Smart" solution that transforms the clinical trial software environment into a dynamic information workplace that supports the way people actually go about performing their day-to-day tasks and puts people in the center of the workflow.

"We're proud to offer next-generation clinical trial management solutions that are optimized to take advantage of Microsoft's Office System", said Robert Webber, President and CEO of TranSenda. "We all know there is a great need to improve clinical trial productivity. We believe the best prospects for progress start with the basics of improving office productivity and focusing our solutions on the business process side of conducting clinical trials."

"When conducting clinical trials, life sciences professionals often struggle with toggling in and out of different systems to input their data-and there's an ongoing challenge of knowing which spreadsheet is the 'single version of the truth,'" said Michael Naimoli, U.S. life sciences industry director, Microsoft Corp. "TranSenda's Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager addresses these problems with an Office Business Application that allows professionals to work from their familiar Microsoft Office environments, while workflows are seamlessly assigned in the background. This not only simplifies clinical trials information management, but also amplifies the impact of people within their organizations."

Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager also introduces new technology to improve and expand the exchange of business process data between systems. ClinBUS^TM is a patent-pending data interchange technology from TranSenda that creates a common data repository for a clinical trial's business process data. Leveraging open standards and CDISC conventions, ClinBUS makes clinical data available in MOSS to facilitate trial customization and integration with reusable software components. ClinBUS makes the data itself more valuable by addressing both syntax and semantics-making insightful metadata available for dashboards, reports and even workflow.

About TranSenda

TranSenda is the leading provider of integrated modular software solutions for clinical trial professionals. Based upon Microsoft's .NET technology, TranSenda's modular solutions are web-enabled by design to provide maximum flexibility and connectivity. TranSenda International, LLC is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, USA. For more information, visit http://transenda.com.