The Pistoia Alliance Conference in April 2011 included a series of 10-minute "lightning talks" from vendors about what they think pharma will look like in 2020. This presentation was delivered by Rajiv Sabharwal of Infosys.
2. What is going to impact Life Sciences industry? Trends that have the power to change the direction of the LS industry as we know today HCLS Convergence Increased Regulatory Intervention Info shift to Public Domain Manage Large Volume of Information Harness Social Media Cost Focus Globalization Improve Data Security Virtualization Collaboration
3. Virtualization Sourcing Business Process, Provisioning Informatics Service from Virtual Platforms, Digital Content Availability Provisioning Atomic Service Units Virtually Target Lead Pre clinical Validation Clinical Develop Storage, Data Analysis, Modeling Service Lab Data Capture Service Plan-Execute-Capture Trial Service Synthesis, Predictive Screening Service Non-Functional Service – Literature, GLP, Security, Authorization The Future of R&D Outsourcing 2011, PharmaMrkt Res I2b2 Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside caBIG 2010
Anirban, I need a few data points here regarding virtualization, such as how many companies have outsourced their research activity (or just the name of a couple who have), and few examples of companies going the cloud route etc