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Deployment Options
Leveraging Software-as-a-Service in Life Sciences
The intensity and diversity of the current life sciences competitive landscape is unprecedented. Small and nimble firms routinely challenge established companies for market share by developing new products and methods focused on meeting the unique needs of a global marketplace. The traditional business model, where a firm produced its products in its own GMP facility, has given way to a network of business alliances, partnerships, and other cooperative ventures that enable start-up firms to conserve cash as they navigate the regulatory landscape of new product approval.
CDC Software recognized these challenges for those small and medium life sciences companies and partnered with Vantage Systems, to offer a pre-configured version of the CDC Ross Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system tailored specifically for the life sciences industry and delivered through the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. For smaller companies, the SaaS approach offers a convenient and secure alternative, without skipping a beat at meeting regulatory compliance, all which was previously not an option.