Cloud Computing

Merit Solutions helps growing life science companies make the Right Start 

by | May 2, 2022 | , , , ,

Pre-configured ERP offering provides customers an affordable point of entry without compromising on the long-term requirements of cloud, security, compliance, scalability, and industry-leading functionality.   “Ensuring customers can start with their last ERP solution first, means not having to handcuff growth because their system doesn’t keep up with their scientific success.”  Tanja Pajic, VP of Services, Merit Solutions Merit Solutions Right Start is Microsoft Dynamics 365, Merit for Life Science, and Microsoft Azure in a single deployment, natively integrated within a secure cloud platform. Merit Solutions announced today the availability of Merit for Life Science Right Start. Designed as an embed solution to Microsoft Dynamics 365, the solution includes the financial...

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Inceptor Bio selects Merit for Life Science with Microsoft Dynamics 365

by | Mar 23, 2022 | , , ,

Next-generation cell therapy developer digitally enables its operations in a cloud-first ERP solution designed specifically for Life Science. “We chose Merit because of the value their software and services will provide. Their biotech-specific software and their multi-phased implementation approach to helping new and growing organizations like us are game-changers.” Jason Lawrence, Senior Director, Finance at Inceptor Bio WHEATON, IL. MARCH 23, 2022 Merit Solutions today announced that Inceptor Bio, a company developing next-generation cell therapies for difficult-to-treat cancers, has selected Merit for Life Science with Microsoft Dynamics 365 to enable its operations digitally. This solution is deployed leveraging the security and scalability of the Microsoft Cloud to protect the...

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The Microsoft Cloud for Biotech and Pharma Manufacturers Just Got Better

by | Jul 16, 2021 | , , , , ,

Merit for Life Science just became more powerful because Microsoft today announced a new level of integration coming between Dynamics 365 (D365) and Teams. This includes Teams integration with Dynamics 365 sales, marketing, customer service, and field service workloads with operations to follow. Microsoft is essentially saying, “Use Teams as your front-end app for work, with everything else operating as a context-intelligent side pane within Teams.”  Merit for Life Science advances Microsoft's base business and productivity apps to fit the unique needs of pharma and biotech, so this announcement is especially powerful for our industry and our customers.  Multi-step Processes Get Mainstreamed Why?  In biotech, our customer acquisition process tends to be multi-step,...

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Low Code/No Code: In Life Sciences, Extend Carefully

by | May 25, 2021 | , , , ,

The old joke is that you can do anything with software if you have enough money. With an army of programmers, it was basically true. But now there is a new way to develop software quickly and with much lower investment: low code/no code programming, a.k.a. codeless app development. Essentially, modern digital platforms have created visual building blocks that can be assembled according to user experiences designed by “citizen developers,” a term coined to describe these non-traditional programmers. Imagine building applications or extending functionality without ever writing a line of code!    Microsoft Azure and Power Platform Tools Microsoft has a deep execution of this development approach in Azure with their Power Platform tools. Canvas apps are "no code," and model-driven...

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Is Your Data Estate Maximizing its Property Value?

by | May 18, 2021 | , ,

When I hear biotech and pharma executives talk about their company’s “data estate,” I know the Microsoft and Amazon people have been meeting with them. I also think of the little British man who ran the estate on Magnum PI. His shtick was to be intimidating because his ferocious Dobermans listened to him. With just the right nod to his dogs, they would viciously attack the perpetrator.  Data as the Foundation of Digital Strategy In the past, executives looked at their IT strategy and their business apps as the ultimate foundational component. The prevailing thinking was, “How do I get all of my data into one place that is secure and enables all the workloads I think I’ll need to execute our strategies?” Increasingly, innovative biotech and pharma business executives are looking at...

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Cloud computing: A smart move for FDA-regulated businesses?

by | May 11, 2021 |

As recent as five years ago, biotech and pharmaceutical companies were apprehensive about operating FDA-regulated business applications - like finance and operations - in the cloud. The concept of SAAS ERP or cloud computing was not only daunting, but it also raised a lot of questions. But now the tide has turned, and life science manufacturers are embracing cloud computing, viewing it as not only a smart move but a necessary one. Here are three reasons why cloud computing can be a smart move for FDA-regulated businesses: 1. Cybersecurity  Five years ago, when we still flew around the world on airplanes, I sat next to a cybersecurity expert making his way from San Francisco to Paris in an emergency response to a global 500 company that had been hacked. The hackers had been inside...

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