QUMAS and Microsoft present a joint briefing to outline their definitive SharePoint solution for the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology sectors. This enterprise solution will address key aspects of the business including clinical, regulatory and manufacturing.

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Dates and Locations

Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Microsoft, Iselin, NJ

101 Wood Avenue South, Suite 900
Metro Park 101
Iselin NJ 08830
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Microsoft, New England Research & Development Center

One Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142
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Who Should Attend

Those who have an existing or prospective SharePoint infrastructure and are looking to manage regulated content in line with long-term company performance objectives.

Targeted Attendees

• CIO’s, Heads of IT, Technical Architects
• Regulatory & Clinical Management
• Quality Assurance & Manufacturing Management

Learning Objectives

Areas addressed will include:

• regulated content across multiple business units, languages & geographies
• single occurrence of controlled documents with distributed access
• managing complex structures for eCTD, CTMF and Manufacturing documents
• how to enable SharePoint 2010 as your single delivery platform in a highly regulated environment

This seminar will bridge these business and technical objectives and outline how to deliver substantial business performance on a SharePoint 2010 platform.

Microsoft will be represented by Les Jordan, CTO, Life Sciences, Microsoft Corporation. QUMAS will be represented by Ken Hayward, CTO and Aidan Quilligan, Head of Technical Product Management.

8:30 - 9:00a.m.	Registration & Continental Breakfast	All
9:00 - 9:30a.m.	Introduction to SharePoint 2010	Microsoft
9:30 - 10:00a.m.	The Role of SharePoint in Life Sciences	Microsoft
10:00 – 10:30a.m.	Innovative UI Concepts Extended Lifecycle Management	QUMAS
10:30 - 11:00a.m.	Coffee Break & Networking	All
11a.m. - 12 noon	Managing Complex Structures Multinational, Multi Lingual Distribution Regulatory Compliance using SharePoint Segregation of Uncontrolled Content	QUMAS
12 noon - 12:30p.m.	Q&A	All
12:30 - 1:30p.m.	Networking Lunch	All

Seminar Speakers

Les Jordan - Industry Technology Strategist, Life Sciences, Microsoft Corporation

As the Industry Technology Strategist, serving in the capacity of CTO for Microsoft’s life sciences team, Les Jordan provides architectural, technical, and industry specific guidance to internal product teams, partner companies and Microsoft’s largest pharmaceutical and health products enterprise customers. Les also holds the position of Director of the BioIT Alliance; a group of organizations working together to realize the potential of personalized medicine. He brings over 15 years of industry experience setting technical direction and strategy.

Prior to joining Microsoft in 2004, Les spent five years with Webridge as a Solution Architect and Technical Evangelist, where he was instrumental in launching their product and market development initiative into clinical trials and research compliance process automation. Based on those efforts, Click Commerce is now one of the largest providers of Research Compliance automation software in the United States.

In addition to research compliance expertise, Les spent five years providing technical guidance in the clinical trials industry as the IT Director of a small CRO. He directed the efforts of the company in building electronic data capture systems, installing client-server based clinical trials systems at many of the largest pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, and consulting with customers on CANDA systems – the pre-cursor to 21 CFR Part 11.

Ken Hayward - Chief Technology Officer, QUMAS

Ken Hayward has over 20 years experience in the regulated software and document management industries. With extensive knowledge of compliance related technologies and the business problems they solve, Ken has designed software systems for regulated companies since the early 1980s. Originally a client before joining QUMAS in 2002, Ken worked with the London International Group, Kinesis Systems and PriceWaterHouse Coopers.

Aidan Quilligan, Head of Technical Product Management, QUMAS

Aidan has almost 20 years of experience in software development and has led the design and implementation of several enterprise-level product suites. He has provided technical design and programme management on a variety of implementations including compliance management, courts case management, portal applications, J2EE implementations and has worked for a variety of companies including global software consultancy firms and leading-edge technology organizations. He is currently Head of Technical Product Management at QUMAS where he is responsible for defining the scope of the QUMAS product suite guide and directing the product design and implementation.

About QUMAS

QUMAS is the leader in Enterprise Compliance Solutions with more than 250 global customer deployments and over 15 years of experience helping companies in highly regulated industries.

QUMAS’ deep Life Sciences expertise together with its relationship with Microsoft ensures that the Life Science market has access to a robust, scalable compliance solution that takes full advantage of corporate investment in SharePoint. QUMAS Compliance Solution for SharePoint 2010 is built exclusively on the SharePoint 2010 platform and facilitates an informed response to compliance challenges across the organization, and provides better overall governance and predictability of business performance.

For more information visit www.qumas.com