Cross- functional processes touch all aspects of the R&D organization. Whether you are quality checking batch records, scanning case report forms, authoring a clinical study report or developing analysis datasets, you are part of a larger development process. Significant opportunities exist to streamline this web of interrelated processes. Some forward thinking organizations are just beginning to take advantage of the promise of process transparency in very specific application areas. Fewer have gone to the next level in attempting to harness the power of electronic processes across the R&D environment.

Processes represent a significant organizational investment that can evolve into a strong corporate asset. Process visibility and control allow a company to understand and realize the value that may be trapped within any given process. Once this process awareness occurs, the company can deliberately exploit the efficiencies, release the value and commit to a continuous cycle of improvement.

Octagon's ViewPoint^® facilitates communication, planning and management of complex processes. It provides real-time metrics, reporting and search capabilities to answer your organization's process questions. Whether you need resource metrics on a specific project or portfolio views across projects, ViewPoint presents real-time actionable information.