CROs

Life science organizations outsource all or parts of their clinical research process to Contract Research Organizations (CROs) for a variety of reasons, including expanding available resources and gaining access to expertise not resident in-house. CROs face similar issues to research sponsors—deploying studies efficiently, working to optimize site enrollment and ensure timely payments, tracking performance—but bring unique needs including handling multiple studies with multiple companies simultaneously, training their workforce and efficiently deploying internal resources.

Technology can help CROs, whether large, medium-size or niche, to realize efficiencies in trial deployment and management across studies and companies. More and more cutting-edge CROs of all sizes are looking to EDC systems to automate their data collection process while providing critical reporting and tracking tools. Medidata Rave^®, with the ability to capture, manage and report critical trial data within a single, easy-to-use system, is increasingly a choice of CROs worldwide, who require a clinical system that has the flexibility, configurability and scalability to meet customers' unique and rigorous clinical research needs.

Some CROs rely on Medidata Professional Services to build their studies. Others utilize their own professional staff to build Medidata Rave studies through Medidata's ASPire to Win^® program, which trains, accredits and supports CROs and other service providers on the Rave technology. Recognizing the importance many Medidata partner CROs place on having a ready, expert work force, Medidata developed this program to allow CROs to deepen their knowledge and expertise in Medidata Rave and optimize their delivery of project management, data management and other services along with Medidata Rave implementations.