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SharePoint User Workshop for the
Life Sciences Industry

May 25, 2010 | Marriott Hotel & Conference Center | Princeton, NJ

*** LAST WEEK TO REGISTER! ***

SharePoint usage is on the rise in the pharmaceutical industry and PHARMICA Consulting is proud to present its 3rd semi-annual Collaboration and SharePoint User Workshop for the Life Sciences Industry.  This one-day workshop (really a conference but without the vendors!) will help business users and IT professionals better understand how Microsoft SharePoint is being used in the pharmaceutical R&D environment to streamline operations, increase productivity, and facilitate collaboration with internal and external partners. 

Register today and come hear other pharmaceutical professionals as they provide a variety of real-life case studies as well as share their best practices and lessons learned.  

WORKSHOP AGENDA

8:00      Morning Coffee & Registration

9:00     Conference Director’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

Greg Cohee, PHARMICA

9:15     Keynote:  SharePoint 2010 – All about Content

With the May 12th launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, Microsoft is releasing the most comprehensive next wave of productivity applications.  The company has made significant investments in improving the out-of-the box ECM and Compliance capabilities of SharePoint 2010.  Gabor Fari, Life Sciences Solutions Strategist at Microsoft, will be delivering a keynote presentation about the new capabilities of SharePoint 2010 and will highlight its implications for the Life Sciences industry.

Gabor Fari, Life Sciences Industry Solutions Strategist, MICROSOFT

10:00    Governance and Tools

            SharePoint is being used to enable collaboration at BMS.  In R&D a strategy was laid out to accelerate adoption of new collaboration capabilities.  In doing so, an upfront focus on an operating model, governance structure, and a staggered roll out approach was put in place to address concerns of SharePoint site proliferation in an unorganized and uncontrolled manner.  This presentation will focus on the implementation approach and tools utilized to deliver SharePoint as a collaboration capability in R&D at BMS.    

 BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB  

10:45    Networking & Refreshment Break

11:15    SharePoint Tools and Tricks of the Trade

           Pharmica routinely configures and builds custom applications on Microsoft’s SharePoint platform to address the business needs of our clients.  Many of our projects involve the use of 3rd party software tools to enhance SharePoint’s functionality and improve the user interface.  Additionally, most clients also require that SharePoint be customized or tailored to better suit their needs and preferences.   To help SharePoint users better understand what tools and types of customization are most commonly used to build effective targeted applications, Pharmica SharePoint developers will share their experiences, recommendations, and ‘tricks’. 

Nick LaGrotta & Teresa Fisher, Senior Consultants, PHARMICA

12:15    Lunch & Networking  

1:45     Supporting Impacting Drug Discovery By Integrating SharePoint Into An Operational Excellence Strategy

            J&J Pharma is a matrix organization with Therapeutic Areas (TA) and Centers of Excellence collaborating to deliver transformational patient solutions. Within the Immunology TA, the Research division is responsible for identifying innovative therapeutic mechanisms and partnering to discover & develop drugs. To manage this complexity we, the Strategy & Business Planning team, have committed to the use of SharePoint as a Quality System to manage day-to-day Scientific and Operational processes. The SharePoint infrastructure provides centralized and standardized views of information that are used to inform and educate a variety of Drug Discovery stakeholders. This presentation will highlight the key functionalities of SharePoint that have been adopted as part of a strategy for Operational Excellence.

Mark Cunningham, Assoc. Director, Strategy & Business Planning, Research Immunology

 JOHNSON & JOHNSON

2:30     SharePoint as a Clinical Operations Dashboard for Study Metrics Reporting

When managing clinical trials, the need for clear metrics reporting is essential.  The status of the trial, at all stages, needs to be available for review across multiple functional areas.  SharePoint has been able to provide us this capability by acting as a dashboard for reporting clinical information.  By incorporating data from different data sources, reports can be generated and viewed, as needed, from one central location.

 Catherine Pelc, SharePoint Service Manager/Administrator, IKARIA

3:00     Networking & Refreshment Break

3:30     Case Study: Redefining the Role of Technology to Empower Operational Excellence in Clinical Research

Today’s pharmaceutical organizations are heavily burdened with manual/paper based processes which misuse our limited resources. This session will share a modern holistic vision of using technology to derive operational benefit. These efforts focus specifically on the electronic Trial Master File and Collaboration with external users.

Things you will learn:

·    How to derive operational benefit from collaborative technology like SharePoint

·    How proof of concept leads to an expanded vision

·    How phased approach could provide the core to immediate benefit

·      How a complex, transverse project delivers value.         

Patricia Brady, Senior Clinical Project Manager, SANOFI-AVENTIS 

4:15    Meeting Closeout and Parting Words

4:30    Cocktail Reception (Until 6 PM)

For more information about this event, please contact Greg Cohee at 215-579-1650 or greg.cohee@pharmicaconsulting.com