DCS Hosted Solutions Works with NextDocs Corporation to Help Small Life Sciences Businesses Meet Compliance Requirements and Reduce Costs
PHILADELPHIA, Apr 28, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — DCS Hosted Solutions has formed a key alliance with NextDocs Corporation to make it easier for small companies in the life sciences industry to achieve their goals, collaborate with partners, and bring products and services to market earlier.
“This exciting alliance allows us to focus on our individual areas of expertise. NextDocs provides affordable, easy-to-use, ready to deploy document management modules, while DCS provides customer operations support within a secure hosted environment that meets industry standards,” says Laura Sherman, managing partner, DCS.
NextDocs delivers comprehensive, compliant document management solutions based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The integrated features of NextDocs address all GxP and 21 CFR Part 11 requirements and automate lifecycle management processes, workflows, audit trails, digital signatures, version control, and submission-ready PDFs.
Ken Lownie, vice president of life sciences at NextDocs, stated, “By combining DCS’s expertise in delivering secured hosted solutions with NextDocs’ industry-leading software, pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and contract research companies can deploy and manage a complete, compliant quality and document management solution in a matter of weeks.”
NextDocs, built on SharePoint Server, offers users a familiar and intuitive interface that supports seamless integration with Microsoft Office applications. The NextDocs modules offer templates and pre-configured lifecycles and workflows for common business processes.
“Smaller life sciences companies are often challenged with meeting regulatory requirements without incurring large costs,” said Michael Naimoli, U.S. life sciences industry director, Microsoft Corp. “The NextDocs-DCS partnership helps solve this issue, allowing smaller customers comfortable with Microsoft Office the ability to maintain compliance at a lower overall IT cost.”
DCS offers solutions based on market-leading collaboration platform Microsoft Office SharePoint Server; NextDocs for life sciences; and a fully validated hosting facility with DCS. DCS hosting solutions offer an affordable monthly plan instead of a significant upfront investment; solutions can be deployed, in use in just a few weeks and DCS hosting facility is SAS-70 certified.
About NextDocs
NextDocs is a leading provider of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server-based document and quality management solutions for the life sciences companies that fully supports compliance with FDA 21 CFR Part 11 regulations. Our mission is to deliver cost effective, easy to use document management software which provides immediate productivity increases for companies operating in regulatory environments. NextDocs customers include pharmaceutical companies, bio-techs, medical device companies and CROs. For more information please visit http://www.nextdocs.com or email sales@nextdocs.com.
About Distributed Compliance Solutions LLC
DCS Hosted Solutions ( www.dcshostedsolutions.com) is the premier compliance hosting company of staff, technology and business process for the small to medium size biotechnology, life science and health organizations delivering scalable, economical, and reliable turnkey solutions within state-of-the-art hosting facilities. DCS is making it easier for business to focus on their goals, collaborate with their partners and bring products and services to market earlier.
