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Being Cognizant means we see current market cycles and lead our clients to new, more efficient business models.

Life sciences companies face significant pressure for change from physicians, patients, payers and regulators. Increased competition and significant financial constraints are limiting their ability to deliver exceptional value to shareholders and innovative healthcare to the world community. As a result, they are seeking more progressive business models and solutions that deliver superior business outcomes, while optimizing cost and enhancing patient outcomes.

Why Cognizant?

Cognizant is the preferred global services partner for the life sciences industry. In fact, 27 of the top 30 global pharmaceutical, 9 of the top 10 biotech and 12 of the top 20 medical device companies benefit from our integrated services portfolio. We can help you to rationalize costs, enhance operational efficiencies, and improve business agility across all life sciences business processes.

Segments We Serve

Pharmaceutical & BiotechWe partner with you to apply time-tested strategies and next-generation solutions that optimize how you work across the value chain.

Medical DevicesWe can help you solve challenges across clinical development and production, through compliance management, sales and marketing analytics and logistics/field service.

Services

Discovery and Pre-clinicalLearn how to build strategies for reinvigorating your R&D machine.

Clinical Development Our solutions help you increase R&D throughput.

Pharmacovigilance Enhance drug safety by implementing tools and processes for proactive surveillance, uniformity and consistency across pharmacovigilance processes.

Manufacturing & Supply Chain Work smarter by optimizing manufacturing and supply chain activities.

Sales & Marketing Anticipate and respond to changing selling models, maturing/shifting product portfolios, regionalization, regulatory scrutiny and the influence of payers and patients.

Regulatory Compliance We help you ensure compliance with relevant global industry regulations and guidelines.

Enabling Functions
Build more scalable and cost-efficient finance, HR, procurement and legal functions.

Analytics
We help transform life sciences organizations by connecting information, insights and technology to improve business performance.

Managed Markets We work with you to optimize business relationships with payers.

Solution

Clinical Systems We work with you to rationalize clinical systems costs, embrace innovation, and reach greater thresholds of business performance.

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Numbers that Make Sense: Virtualizing Finance and Accounting in Life Sciences
Learn about Virtualization and how it can help Life Sciences companies overcome their business challenges like: reducing costs, increasing flexibility and efficiency, and increasing competition position and innovation.
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Adaptive Social Media in Life Sciences
Life sciences companies can harness the benefits of social media by applying the same model of adaptive design that they use in clinical trials.
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Patient Centered Wellness
Learn how a new commercial model, incorporating the Internet, mobile communications, social networking and a change in business paradigm for healthcare providers improves outcomes, arrests cost and maintains compliance.
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Virtual Clinical Organization: The New Clinical Development Operating Model
Cost pressures are forcing clinical development organizations to adopt a new operating model that is based on a network of virtual clinical partners.
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Managing Managed Markets
Cognizant’s Managed Markets solution provides pharmaceutical and medical device companies with effective and accurate systems and processes to manage the contract lifecycle, while supporting.
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Leveraging Multi-core Processors Through Parallel Programming
With today's multi-core processors, there is a growing need for parallel software development that is both compatible with today's languages and ready for tomorrow's hardware.
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Better Target Identification and Validation Through an Integrative Analysis of Biological Data
With increasing data volumes -- and issues specific to biological data findings -- the pharma industry needs to find new data mining and analysis techniques for the drug discovery process, including integrative analysis.
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Leveraging Service Management to Improve Clinical Development Operations
Service management frameworks can help clinical development organizations improve customer relationships, increase productivity and reduce costs.
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Pharmacovigilance: A Practical Approach to Reshaping Patient Safety
By adopting a proactive business strategy for pharmacovigilance, biopharma firms can gain competitive advantage by delivering higher quality, lower cost products that the market requires, while improving quality of life for patients.
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A Comprehensive Approach to Application Portfolio Rationalization
A comprehensive approach to application portfolio rationalization will enable organizations to maximize the business value of their applications and focus on strategic opportunities.
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The Future of Pharma: A U.S. Sector Review
The future of U.S. pharma will depend on companies diversifying products and services to address global demand, as well as adopting new operating models that boost R&D productivity.
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Getting Closer to Customers: Mobility Revolution in Pharmaceuticals
Here's a look at how the mobile revolution is transforming the pharmaceutical industry by enabling consumer-to-industry connections.
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Improving Customer Insight
This Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry article shows how the right IT framework can transform data into dollars for device manufacturers.
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Pharmacovigilance: A Roadmap to Early Signal Detection
Learn how new foundational technologies are enabling a more accurate risk/benefit assessment, better analysis of large datasets and the importance of establishing pharmacovigilance programs to develop a thorough and well-understood safety profile.
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Redefining Sales Operations to Drive Operational Efficiency
Streamline the sales redeployment process with minimal disruption to business operations with our rapid deployment methodology.
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Sales & Marketing Analytics
Transform your organization with a sales and marketing analytics framework that incorporates tools and processes, coupled with an enabling IT infrastructure, to deliver precision market insights.
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A Look Inside Incentive Compensation
Read an overview of ideas that emerged from dialogue we had with industry leaders regarding the critical factors influencing incentive compensation programs.

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Helping a Global Pharma Leader Strengthen its Strategic Business Intelligence
Cognizant enabled a global pharmaceuticals company to develop a strategic business intelligence capability, in order to deliver the right insights to the right decision-makers, at the right time.
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Propelling A Healthcare Giant
A pharmaceutical giant’s expansion into emerging markets is propelled by a business platform and service center designed by Cognizant, serving its regional marketing operations.
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Cognizant Support Enables Scientists to Perform Pharmaceutical Research
Through Cognizant's lab computing services, a global pharmaceutical company benefited from improved service levels and reduced operational costs.
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Customer Management Solution
See how we designed, developed and implemented a Web-based customer management system for a major bio-pharma company.

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Turning a Sow's Ear into a Silk Purse
Find out why you need enterprise analytics now and a cost-effective way to obtain it.
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In Search of Supply Chain Excellence
Learn how to create supply chains that are more agile, adaptive and business-aligned.

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Our Approach

Industry Expertise
Our global pool of life sciences experts helps streamline your operations end-to-end, boosting R&D returns, improving clinical outcomes and applying advanced data analytics to unlock business value.
Two-in-a-Box
With our Two-in-a-Box™ (TiB) client engagement model, we embed senior personnel with demonstrated industry expertise within your IT organization who coordinate strategy with dedicated offsite delivery manager, freeing your team to concentrate on core business objectives.
Transform While Perform
Our all-encompassing strategic framework helps you shift investments from
non-differentiating projects to higher value initiatives that advance short- and long-term business objectives.

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