Software Development and Support for the Pharma and Life Sciences Industry
We work with leading companies who are advancing medicines for cancer, mental illness and other life-threatening diseases. We are proud to develop, maintain and support software that will one day help make these diseases a thing of the past.
New software responsibilities with high costs, a large user base, and unreliable resources brought unexpected challenges. They were directed to reduce headcount by 5%, so they needed an outsourcing partner to increase client satisfaction as well as lower overall costs.
As life sciences company Auxilium has grown their product portfolio and revenue over the years, their need for more robust systems and skilled IT professionals has also grown. Strategically, Auxilium wanted to maintain a lean internal IT staff while implementing state of the art systems to support their growing business. The company needed a long-term partner that could be flexible and nimble with the IT needs of a large and dynamic organization.
California introduced a new law requiring 50% of pharmaceutical packaging to be serialized. Pharmaceutical company Astellas’ strategy was to design a global solution that could be rolled out worldwide to meet each country’s compliance needs. This approach, based on an SAP custom solution, required large internal and external teams for implementation. And because Astellas wanted to remain focused on its implementation projects, it chose to find a third-party provider to support the solution.
With increased revenues, and the potential for additional growth on the horizon, Human Genome Services (HGS) was looking for cost-effective ways to better support their SAP system and its expanding user base. After researching their options, HGS chose Sparq to maintain and support their SAP infrastructure.
Our unique U.S. led, blended onshore/nearshore model provides the immediacy of localized teams, better cultural and business context, and with the financial advantages of lower cost locations. Working with teams in a similar time zone ensures seamless communication and faster response times, making true idea exchange and real-time collaboration possible.
Our reliable and efficient domestic delivery model allows us to provide superior manual and automated testing services, including regression testing, unit testing, system integration testing, load testing, mobile testing, and A/B testing. Our consultants are experienced professionals who are capable of solving problems, not simply reporting them.
We provide data management services with data cleansing and validation, data migration and ETL monitoring, master data management, and data integration. We also develop custom analytic and reporting solutions as well as dynamic and intuitive dashboards for real-time decision-making.
We help our pharma and life sciences clients take advantage of the advanced capabilities of the SAP enterprise application suite, from deployment and integration to customization and ongoing support. We are also experts at providing implementation and ongoing maintenance and support of Microsoft’s Sharepoint collaboration application environment.
We are experts at designing and engineering critical business applications and digital experiences. Our digital engineering services offer full or shared accountability, Agile and DevOps methodologies, application modernization, cloud migration and system integration.
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