Actuate applications help manage costs, monitor pipelines to speed drug delivery, and streamline sales and marketing activities with specialized data reports and management solutions. By providing initiative tracking software to manage cycle times, executive scorecards to monitor the R&D pipeline and detailed reporting capabilities to ensure regulatory and safety compliance, Actuate delivers the solutions needed to meet the challenges of today's competitive marketplace.

Life Sciences firms are spending historical amounts on research and development, yet the drug pipelines are thinning. As firms race to find blockbusters, every process throughout the drug lifecycle needs to be made more efficient and cost effective - from Discovery to Trials to Manufacturing and Marketing. That's why it's critical to deliver precise information with flexibility so that users are effective at spotting failing drug leads, monitoring trial subjects, coordinating submissions, tracking and maintaining manufacturing, and sales detailing.

Solutions for the Life Sciences industry built on Actuate include Information Applications around product lifecycle management, clinical data management, clinical trial budget monitoring, drug pipeline tracking or field sales physician intelligence applications. Actuate solutions help pharmaceutical companies shorten cycle times, increase performance, and improve efficiency. With Actuate, a broad range of processes and users can be made more effective and productive. 

BIRT Performance Scorecard: Business Metrics for Maximum Productivity 

The Actuate Performancesoft Suite helps organizations drive strategy at all levels, improve decision making, and ensure better operational performance and execution.
Learn more about BIRT Performance Scorecard

Features and Benefits

• Align all areas of the organization into a cohesive strategic plan
• Enhance productivity and improve time to market
• Establish links between development costs, product quality improvement, and lead development times
• Ensure that cycle times, safety requirements and regulatory objectives are being met
• Link strategy with daily activities using leading Activity and Performance Management software
• Expose gaps in strategy and performance using traffic light performance indicators, use performance metrics to better manage cost, quality, and efficiency
• Quickly identify issues to allow for more effective resource allocation
• Evaluate the status of compounds with intuitive Web reports
• Allow clinical trial managers track trials to budget with server-based spreadsheets
• Review pipeline status in a dashboard at the executives level

Ingredients for a Successful Implementation

• Actuate BIRT and Flash Objects: Intuitive, rich dashboards display key HealthCare metrics in context of other leading operational indicators with drill-through into personalized, analysis-ready BIRT reports for further analysis
• BIRT Performance Scorecard (formerly Performancesoft): Manage any number of Performance Management frameworks, including: JCAHO, Malcolm Baldridge, and the Balanced Scorecard using executive scorecards
• Performance Maps: Enable organizational alignment of strategies, goals and activities, allow cause and effect analysis
• Scorecards: Facilitate a roll up or cascading of data to the highest levels
• Consulting Services: Unmatched Balanced Scorecard knowledge, software consulting coupled with performance management knowledge transfer

Recent / Selected Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences Customers

• Abbott Laboratories
• ASPREVA Pharmaceuticals
• AstraZeneca
• Capsugel/Pfizer
• Centocor Inc.
• Chiron Corporation
• GlaxoSmithKline
•  Janssen Pharmaceutica Ltd.
• Johnson & Johnson Sales and Logistics
• MDS Inc.
• Ortho Biotech
• Solvay Pharmaceuticals
• Vistakon
• Chemware 

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