Life Sciences

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

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.

Our Approach

  • Helping the Medical Device Industry Address the UDI Mandate

    We help medical device companies in the life science industry to implement the FDA's UDI mandate - that every device have a unique device identifier. As a participant in GS1 and AdvaMed, we can help you with impact assessment, MDM integration and every other step in UDI implementation.

  • 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.

  • Virtual Brand Management: Optimizing Brand Contribution

    By working with strategic partners, life sciences companies can optimize revenue across their product portfolios, thereby reenergizing brand management.

  • Cognizant's Clinical Transformation

    To succeed in today’s competitive global market, drug companies need to innovate and pursue efficient ways of conducting clinical trials to shorten cycle times and achieve cost savings. Cognizant’s
    cloud-based Clinical Transformation solution offers the right role fitment, provides
    real-time data access, and adopts a risk-based targeted approach to monitor clinical trials. Proactive
    decision-making and improved collaboration enhance safety quality and maximize productivity.