Savvion and Patni Announce Strategic Partnership

Savvion® and Patni Life Sciences announced today a strategic partnership to jointly deliver Business Process Management (BPM)-enabled solutions for clinical operations on top of Savvion’s Life Sciences Foundation. Savvion and Patni will apply their expertise and experience to help pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech, and Clinical Research Organizations (CRO) meet the unique business, regulatory, and information technology challenges they face across the drug development life cycle.

Expediting the complex, global regulatory process governing drug trials is a major challenge for life sciences firms. A major obstacle is how to reduce the time to get new drugs to the market while still maintaining the highest quality standards. The partnership between Savvion and Patni meets this challenge by combining Patni’s decades of experience in IT and scientific consulting with Savvion’s fourteen years of experience in optimizing and automating business processes. The outcome of the partnership will help life sciences organizations streamline their drug development and clinical trial operations—all while leveraging their existing information technology infrastructure investments. By optimizing the drug development life cycle, customers will be able to lower the time and cost of delivering compliant, safe, and reliable drugs to the marketplace.

This partnership signifies Savvion’s commitment to this market segment, where the company offers targeted Savvion’s “BPM-enabled” applications that allow you to model, simulate, optimize and execute various collaborative clinical operational processes built on top of its robust and proven BPM platform and Life Sciences Foundation. Patni chose to partner with Savvion because of Savvion’s support for security and life sciences standards as well as the open architecture, frameworks, and business accelerators that are life science industry specific for quick ROI and deployment of clinical operations solutions.

“Drug trial managers face tremendous challenges,” said Roy Devine, Associate VP Consulting Services at Patni. “They must deal with expiring drug patents, dwindling drug pipelines, escalating costs of clinical trials, and increasingly stringent new regulatory guidelines that delay time to market. This new partnership will enhance Patni’s consulting practice by allowing us to offer Savvion’s pioneering BPM technology along with Patni’s regulatory and IT expertise to help our clients remain competitive.”

“Savvion is very excited about this new partnership,” said Pejman Makhfi, Vice President of Solutions at Savvion. “With Patni’s domain expertise in life sciences and Savvion’s track record for automating complex business processes, we can work together to give the drug industry BPM-enabled solutions to easily meet complex and ever-changing regulatory requirements and shorten the time to market for new drugs.”

“Addressing Clinical Trial Challenges and Opportunities with BPM,” a recent webinar in Savvion’s “Process Makes Perfect” series is available here:

http://www.bpminstitute.org/roundtables/upcoming-round-table/article/addressing-clinical-trial-challenges-and-opportunities-with-bpm.html?tac=728c

About Patni

Patni Life Sciences is located in Bridgewater, NJ, with a regional operations center in Noida, India. Patni has more than 20 years of experience in the life sciences industry, and integrates business, information technology and regulatory expertise to deliver leading-edge solutions to its life science clients. Patni Computer Systems Limited (BSE: PATNI COMPUT), (NSE: PATNI), (NYSE: PTI) is a global provider of IT Services and business solutions, servicing Global 2000 clients. Patni services its clients through its industry-focused practices, including banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI); manufacturing, retail and distribution (MRD); life sciences; communications, media and utilities (CMU), and its technology-focused practices.

About Savvion

More than 300 of the world’s top-performing companies, including 22 of the Fortune 100, choose Savvion to operate more productively and profitably. As the business process management trailblazer, Savvion moves enterprises beyond ordinary BPM with groundbreaking business-critical software solutions and services that make them more competitive and cost-efficient, including a return on investment as high as 300%. Savvion has a proven track record for turning process improvement ideas into real-world solutions within 30 days. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Savvion can be reached at www.savvion.com or 888-544-5511.

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