For today’s corporate enterprise, business intelligence solutions need to integrate and coordinate data from internal research, development, sales and marketing. In that process, external data is vital to achieve real-time adjustments to make decisions about resources and priorities.

MDCPartners combines industry expertise with high level IT-based intelligence solutions to better address our clients’ needs in a cost effective setting. In 2006, we introduced NormScan, a web-based information system on standards development for medical devices. Keeping track of standards is a key factor in the corporate regulatory compliance strategy and we help companies with our focused information delivery and advice to be prepared for inevitable change.

MDCPartners launched ta-scan in 2007. Ta-scan is a desktop programme containing aggregated data on clinical trials, the competitive landscape in terms of site selection and patient availability, thought leader analysis and many other aspects that help establish the vital view on the external component of the drug development environment. Ta-scan is a the result of new IT technology - semantic web mining - that combines, compares and aggregates information from diverse internet sources. Ta-scan helps the pharmaceutical executive team in the strategic development plan, the operational deployment by country and the overall better understanding of the therapeutic area.