Generis, Phlexglobal and LORENZ Life Sciences Group, announce the founding of 
the Alliance of Experts, a new source for end-to-end Regulatory Information 
Management (RIM) and Clinical solutions in Life Sciences. The Alliance of 
Experts brings the expertise of each company together to provide seamless 
interoperability between their software packages, providing customers a 'single 
source of truth' for all data that can be used and applied in multiple 
solutions.

Prior to the founding of the Alliance of Experts, life science customers either 
employed a range of specialized tools from several different domain specialists 
to meet RIM requirements which may not work together or purchased a single 
solution RIM enterprise tool that provided limited depth of expertise in the 
rapidly changing life science market. The Alliance of Experts offers the best 
of both worlds by providing expert, established applications and guaranteeing 
the integrations between them with a single Alliance support service. This 
approach removes the burden of maintenance and risk from our customers, while 
ensuring zero compromise on functionality.

A prime example of an effective RIM solution provided by the Alliance of 
Experts is the Submission Archiving function. Leveraging the integration 
between LORENZ docuBridge and Generis' CARA, Submission Archiving pushes an 
archive copy of the published submission into CARA for long term storage, while 
creating an application sequence in docuBridge that includes leaf nodes 
pointing to the relevant files in CARA. Archived submissions can be accessed 
from CARA or from docuBridge with equal ease, giving customers exactly the same 
view of the submission that the agency has, along with links to the source 
files of their published equivalents.

"The whole point of the Alliance of Experts is efficiency," says James 
Kelleher, CEO at Generis, "and this means that customers benefit directly from 
having a single source of regulatory data that can feed many different 
processes. This means that the sheer number of sources of error are greatly 
reduced."  

Karen Roy, Chief Strategy Officer from Phlexglobal echoes the sentiment: 
"Combining our Clinical expertise with the Alliance's Regulatory Affairs 
expertise really creates a whole new user experience. Customers can assemble 
their own perfect solution from a range of different partial ones." 

"The Alliance of Experts combines the advantages of a single RIM vendor and at 
the same time overcomes the limitations of a single RIM vendor," says Raoul 
Lorenz, CEO of LORENZ Life Sciences Group, "Through 'automated integration' we 
are taking the headache out of system integration, and are able to offer more 
variety and much deeper functionality. This is a marked step forward from both 
the classic approaches as well as the rigid platforms that have tried to 
replace them."

For more information of how the Alliance of Experts has created agile, 
tailored, end-to-end solutions to help customers, check out the joint 
initiative's website ( www.allianceofexperts.com ). 

About LORENZ

LORENZ Life Sciences Group (www.lorenz.cc) has been developing and marketing 
software solutions for the Life Sciences market since 1989. LORENZ has an array 
of Regulatory Information Management solutions geared towards industry, health 
authorities and academia that enable compliance enforcement globally. LORENZ' 
tried and tested portfolio offers Product Registration/IDMP, Submission 
Assembly, Validation and Management, Publishing/eCTD, Regulatory Planning and 
Tracking products and related services. Interoperability between LORENZ 
products and third party solutions, as well as the ability to automate 
processes, allow LORENZ customers to enhance operational efficiencies. With 
over 1050 paid installations in 38 countries, LORENZ has a strong worldwide 
customer base.

About Generis Knowledge Management

Generis has been providing leading-edge software for content management systems 
including Documentum, SharePoint, Alfresco and Oracle WebCenter since 1997.  
The company has more than 50 customers across industries from Federal 
Government, through Life Sciences and Engineering to Media, Publishing and 
Financial.  The company is headquartered in Sarasota, FL, and has its principal 
development centers in Europe.  Customers include 8 of the global top 10 Life 
Science companies, Federal and State governments, engineering and media 
companies.  For more information about Generis visit www.generiscorp.com 

About Phlexglobal

Phlexglobal are world renowned thought leaders and specialists in the provision 
of electronic Trial Master File (eTMF) systems and services. They offer a 
unique combination of eTMF technology with PhlexEview – their market leading 
eTMF system, quality services and specialist resource that delivers a range of 
flexible, targeted solutions to meet your business needs. Phlexglobal is 
headquartered in the UK, with offices in Malvern, PA and Lublin, Poland. 

CONTACT: Ellen Bisnath, Ellen.Bisnath@generiscorp.com 

SOURCE: Generis