Category Archives: Briefing Note

11Nov/21

Veeva Enters Operations Execution Domain in the Cloud

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Veeva Vault Quality Briefing Note

Axendia was recently briefed by the Executive team at Veeva Vault Quality, Mike Jovanis, Vice President of Vault Quality, Kent Malmros, Senior Director of Vault Training, Jason Boyd, Senior Director of Vault LIMS, and Gagan Bhatia, Director of Product Marketing.

“We are building the industry cloud for Life Sciences,” affirmed Peter Gassner, President and CEO of Veeva during his keynote at the company’s summit in 2018 (See: Veeva is Building the Life Sciences Cloud with High Speed and Velocity)

Since then, Veeva has made significant investments towards that goal. The company built a cloud native QMS solution, made inroads to provide the right content for the right station on the shop floor with Station Manager (see: Samsung Biologics CIO Shares Vision for Modernizing Manufacturing Quality) as well added new offerings in Learning Management (see: Leading Companies Modernize Quality Management in the Cloud).

During this briefing, Veeva’s Management team provided an update on new product offerings, including the LearnAboutGmp (now Veeva LearnGxP) acquisition, the launch of Vault Validation Management application for paperless validation and the company’s entrance into the Operations Execution Domain with the launch of Vault LIMS.

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27Sep/21

“Orchestrating” the Sales-to-Manufacturing Process

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KBMax Briefing Note

By:  Eric M. Luyer, Industry Research Analyst

Axendia was recently briefed by the executive team at KBMax about their offering to the Bio-Pharma Industry.

KBMax offers innovative and engaging technology in the visual “Configure, Price, Quote” (CPQ) and Visualization market, “orchestrating” the sales-to-manufacturing process in an engineer-to-order environment.  KBMax was acquired by Epicor in May 2021. This acquisition will continue to drive growth for Epicor as they now have the ability to offer KBMax software as a stand-alone system or integrate it into the Epicor ERP suite to generate new, cross and up-sell revenues.

Steve Murphy, CEO of Epicor commented on the acquisition: “It’s a perfect time for businesses to reach our customers in new and compelling ways. The integration of KBMax’s technology into our platform will solve that challenge for our customers, enabling them to create an information-rich and immersive online buying experience. The integration of next-gen CPQ tools with our ERP system will enable vital connectivity points to our customers across inventory, costs, pricing, and customer data”.

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16Aug/21

Innovating to Help Industries Transform

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Event Brief – SAP Industry Analyst Base Camp 2021

By: Sandra K. Rodriguez, Senior Industry Analyst

Peter Maier, President, SAP Industries and Customer Advisory, opened the 2021 Industry Analyst Base Camp with words of caution, “there is still less consensus about the new normal and the future will be more dynamic and uncertain.” With a variety of industry cloud solutions ranging from Automotive, Banking, Consumer Products, Financial Services to Life Sciences and more, Maier said with confidence, “we are the market maker, once again.”

Recognizing that all companies have different starting points, SAP customers are optimizing existing systems and taking a multi-step approach to transition to a modular cloud architecture.  “Moving to the cloud is a journey, not a destination” added Julia White, Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer and Executive Board Member at SAP.  This architecture is comprised of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Industry Cloud (3rd Party Apps and SAP), SAP Line-of-Business (LOB) Solutions and the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) which brings together enterprise applications into one platform for both cloud and hybrid environments. This includes hundreds of pre-built integrations for SAP and third-party applications. White accurately pointed out that many companies have relied on on-prem technologies for decades.  As a result, there are multiple paths customers can take to make the transition. It is not a one size fits all journey.

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13Jul/21

Dassault Systèmes Articulates Interconnected Life-Science Vision

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Dassault Systèmes 2021 Analyst Conference Event Brief

By: Sandra K. Rodriguez, Senior Industry Analyst and Daniel R. Matlis, President

Dassault Systèmes continued to articulate its interconnected Life-Science vision at the 2021 Analyst conference.

“In the experience economy, business science and innovation are all about relationships,” said Bernard Charlès, Vice Chairman, Chief Executive Officer at Dassault Systèmes. “The real phenomenon of the platform is about building an interconnected continuous interactive loop with your value chain from design to user experience,” he added.

“We are not talking about upstream and downstream applications anymore, it’s a continuous flow of imagine, create, produce, advocate, value and use,” said Charlès.

While Axendia does not believe in force ranking vendors because there is no BEST (see: Who is the Best Technology Vendor?), Dassault Systèmes executives were the first to articulate their avant-garde vision to support the Life-Science value network from end to end.  This vision is backed by an impressive offering portfolio aimed at providing an interconnected and continuous interactive platform that supports the Life-Science value network from end to end. 

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02Jun/21

Leading Companies Modernize Quality Management in the Cloud

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Veeva Briefing Note

By: Sandra K. Rodriguez, Sr. Industry Analyst

Axendia was recently briefed by Mike Jovanis, vice president of Vault Quality and Kent Malmros, senior director of Vault Training at Veeva Systems.  Veeva Systems (www.veeva.com) is a cloud computing company focused on the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry.

Veeva Vault Quality customers continue to increase in numbers and now include 14 of the top 20 largest pharmaceutical companies. Leading companies around the world are adopting a cloud culture to lower the cost of implementation and ownership, enable collaboration with external partners, and simplify business processes.  To date, more than 175 biopharma, contract manufacturers, generics, and medtech companies, have adopted Vault QMS to streamline and automate quality processes. “As a trusted partner, Veeva has been collaborating closely with life sciences companies globally on their digital quality initiatives,” said Mike Jovanis, vice president, Veeva Vault Quality. “We are committed to customer success and will continue to deliver customer-focused innovation across product development and manufacturing.”

Vault QMS is part of the Veeva Vault Quality Suite, including Vault Product Surveillance, Vault QualityDocs, Vault Station Manager, and Vault Training to automate and harmonize quality processes globally.

Veeva’s continuous innovation is helping customers proactively manage quality and increase agility. Over the last year, new features for Vault QMS include:

  • Seamless connection between Vault QMS and Veeva Vault Registrations to reduce cycle time and increase transparency within post-market change control
  • Quality Risk Management (QRM) advancements, including FMEA methodology to support proactive identification and mitigation of risks
  • Fully automated process for external auditees such as CMOs and suppliers to respond to audit findings directly within the system
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