Managing a life science company is not easy. With organizations of all sizes facing tremendous time to market pressures, the need for efficiency, integration and standardization is a top management priority. To meet these business pressures, life science companies cannot depend on ad hoc business methods and processes to drive success. Rather, they must be able to design processes and procedures and acquire a framework to ensure they are used to manage and govern their business operations.
Adding to this management challenge is the extended enterprise nature of the life science organization. Many are dependent not only on direct employees, but consultants, Clinical Research Organizations, Contract Manufacturers and others -- all of whose initiatives and assignments need careful management and monitoring. And compounding all of this is the stringency imposed by regulatory requirements that mandates the carefully recording of every aspect of the business so that it can be inspected, monitored and reviewed.
These challenges are the reasons why Alinion Sentinel™ 4.0 is fast becoming the standard for managing and monitoring the complex business process and document control requirements of today’s life science business. Alinion Sentinel 4.0 has been designed from the ground up to specifically support the document control and process management requirements of today’s life science organization. Our innovative software-as-a-service solution provides the document and process management needed to take control of any size life science organization.
Alinion Sentinel offers your company a single, easy-to-use and very cost-effective web based service for helping improve the efficiency of document development lifecycle, from inception and revision to managing all of the requirements dictated by policies, procedures and protocols. With Sentinel, your organization can easily and efficiently manage GxP processes, quality, compliance, engineering projects and validation programs and oversee the status and deliverables from outsourcing partners – all from a single and secure solution.
Alinion Sentinel offers your life science organization five key benefits:
- Comprehensive document lifecycle management, including control, development and centralized management of those documents needed to govern and support your critical business operations.
- Rapid improvement of your organization’s maturity model to one that is defined by standards and efficient management of business processes across your enterprise.
- Anytime, anywhere visibility into and active management and monitoring of business processes supporting your standard operating policies and procedures. Alinion Sentinel’s powerful reporting engine provides real-time information on all of your business initiatives and projects.
- Real-time collection of information and remediation to support the on-going validation and corrective action plans of policies and procedures, including full assessment and audit capability. Sentinel tracks and records changes to all documents and processes, providing you a comprehensive change management history of the activities and tasks performed.
- Active collaboration with employees, contractors and out-sourcing partners to measure and track the status of programs and deliverables as well as assessing performance.
Sentinel is not a suite of individual product components, so there are no additional components or software licenses to buy. It is a single integrated solution that supports all of your document and process management requirements from a single, role-driven platform. Sentinel’s patent-pending design results in the documented reduction of costs associated with key operational requirements such compliance, quality control and assurance and good practices. Because Alinion Sentinel is a software-as-a-service solution, your organization does not have to devote expensive IT resources to support its operations. Alinion delivers Sentinel over the web from a SAS 70 Type II data center, providing the highest levels of security for your data.