Office-Smart Clinical Trial Solutions
For organizations engaged in conducting clinical trials, Office-Smart clinical software solutions from TranSenda create a natural next step to bring Office tools, business process workflow, and documents into the regulated world of clinical trial applications.
Office-Smart clinical trial solutions are a new category of software which is basically the result of blending a clinical study application with the Microsoft Office System. To make Clinical Trial Manager "Office-Smart", TranSenda has taken a "line-of-business" (LOB) application—in this case a CTMS—and optimized it to interoperate with the Microsoft Office System in ways that make the most sense for study professionals. Microsoft calls a solution that connects LOB applications, systems, processes and people with the familiar Microsoft Office interface an Office Business Application (OBA). Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager is essentially an OBA-based CTMS.
With Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager, TranSenda's objective is to leverage the Microsoft Office environment in ways that are intuitively smart from a user experience standpoint. Study professionals typically perform significant additional work outside of a "formal" LOB system as they "informally" collaborate with others via email, phone and fax. They also obtain information from multiple sources in the form of documents, spreadsheets and reports—as they switch between online and offline modes for data entry, report preparation, communication, and meetings. An OBA-based CTMS like Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager helps to simplify this interaction by blending formal and informal tasks to smartly support the ad-hoc ways that people actually perform their tasks.
An Office-Smart clinical trial solution not only simplifies dealing with ongoing workflow, it also significantly improves staff effectiveness. Study teams frustrated with an overly complex environment can use Office-Smart Clinical Trial Manager as a single, Office-centric source for critical study data and documents. Familiar Office tools like Excel, Outlook and Word can now be more fully leveraged. For instance, Excel is integrated with Office-Smart software to make mismatched data from workaround spreadsheets that stand outside of a clinical trial management software system a problem of the past. Extra data entry is minimized or eliminated. An Office-Smart clinical trial solution creates less work—not more.
Office-Smart clinical trial software also takes advantage of Microsoft's powerful SharePoint portal technology to dramatically improve multi-site communication and collaboration. Study teams that are now faced with numerous application interfaces that don't "talk" to their email or spreadsheets, can now benefit from unprecedented connectivity. For example, site visit reports can be routed for approval from Word with the ability to enforce updates to metadata according to business rules. Or, while on the road, a Clinical Research Associate can access managed 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.
Organizations can leverage their staff's experience with the Microsoft Office system to reduce the need for training and increase the adoption of technology. By enabling study professionals to interact naturally with their favorite Office tools, organizations can improve study team morale, increase productivity and improve quality. Office-Smart clinical trial solutions can simply transform the study workplace into a more effective environment.
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