Pharmaceutical companies across the world are facing challenges due to lengthy drug discovery cycles, rising research and sales costs, competition from prescription and generic equivalents and stringent regulatory compliance. Information Technology is a key enabler which can help analyze vast amount of data created during research, provide integrated view of disparate systems for operations, provide analytical tools to improve manufacturing and sales process and follow stringent development and maintenance processes that comply with FDA and cGMP rules. CIOs have to offer these services while keeping the costs under control.

Wipro has a "regulated offshore development center " framework which ensures that the infrastructure, security, processes, templates, checklists comply with FDA and cGMP needs. Wipro has leveraged its expertise in package implementation, application development and maintenance, web services, integration, business intelligence, testing, quality, technology infrastructure support and business process outsourcing to provide solutions across pharma value chain:

	Research and development Bio-informatics Sample management
	Clinical trials Clinical trials data management Electronic data capture Oracle clinical, Siebel eClinical implementations
	Manufacturing and operations Supply chain optimization Warehouse management SAP/ Oralce/ JDE/ PeopleSoft implementations Technology infrastructure support
	Sales CRM solutions Web analytics Data analytics Pharma co-vigilance
	Regulatory compliance 21 CFR 11 compliance services Validation services cGMP compliance services