Outsourcing has been the buzzword from the start of this century and India has developed into a major hub for such services. In the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare domains, IT has become inevitable as the Research and Development processes have developed into technology driven systems. Most of the top Pharmaceutical companies in the world have outsourced their IT process to Indian companies. The medium sized companies are also getting into the channel of offshoring their IT projects to lower-cost destinations.

Informatics Outsourcing may be utilized as an extended arm of Customer’s Research and Development activities for identifying the New Chemical Entities (NCEs). InformaticsOutsourcing and the customer will be using their respective strengths and technologies in drug discovery to jointly carry out target and compound screening toward identification of NCEs.

The pharmaceutical industry requires extraordinary investments to bring novel drugs to market and is touted to be a highly competitive marketplace. In order to reduce cost, accelerate time and stay competitive, the Pharma companies are required to work constantly and develop new ways to improve their execution process. Data Analysis is one area of decision making where significant competitive advantage could be sought. Scientists and researchers can improve and accelerate the R&D process by gaining closer insight and better intelligence from clinical data .

Patent documents are the ones that contain significant research results. A patent document contains a myriad of items for analysis. They can be classified into Structured and Unstructured.

Key Opinion Leader (KOL) endorsement is vital for a product's success throughout its life cycle. Pharmaceutical companies generally connect with the key opinion leaders early in the drug development process to provide advocacy activity and key marketing feedback. The Pharma companies in cultivating KOLs allocate considerable time and money.

The amount of data that is generated in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industries could be overwhelming for the companies to manage. This is where Data Handling methods come into the picture. By implementing data processing techniques, the data that are generated can be organized, presented and made readily accessible.

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