Exploratory Development

Exploratory Development Drives Competitiveness in Pharmaceuticals

Speed and efficiency in bringing new drugs to market are the keys to competitiveness in the pharmaceutical industry. Finding ways to streamline the exploratory development process is paramount. A variety of business intelligence tools have been developed for this purpose, including screening software and data mining applications. But no technology brings the kind of power to exploratory development that visual analytics can. Using advanced data visualization techniques, visual analytics allow users to see their data in new and important ways. Visual exploration provides quicker insight into patterns and trends, outliers and relationships. Researchers, scientists and physicians can get faster access to the insight hidden in their data, and use it to enhance many aspects of exploratory development. In pharmaceutical companies everywhere, Spotfire visual analytics is the software of choice.

Spotfire® Visual Analytics Optimize Exploratory Development

Spotfire provides researchers in exploratory development with a visual environment where they can query, explore and interact with their data in real-time, speeding access to insight. Users can ask and answer questions to quickly identify trends, patterns and correlations in clinical data, with no need for programming knowledge or for assistance from IT experts.

Researchers use Spotfire to:

Aggregate and analyze exploratory data from multiple trials
Compare preclinical animal data with Phase I data to improve understanding of disease biology and medicine
Compare lab safety data with adverse events
Issue rapid iterations of enquire—answer—enquire again
Make critical decisions about the validity of a drug target in development, the potential of different therapeutic strategies, and the potential of various biomarkers in their research program.

Guided Analytics Improve Collaboration in Exploratory Development

Spotfire's unique Guided Analytics™ functionality enables pharmaceutical companies to create best practice workflows that can help to streamline processes and optimize exploratory development. Using Guided Analytics, experts can perform a complex analytic process, capture a step-by-step history of it, and then annotate and package it for use by others, allowing even novice users to perform analysis. Spotfire also aids collaboration and communication across departments and organizations through the use of interactive Web-based reports that allow each reader to visualize and interact with the same data. Spotfire is used as an analytics and business intelligence product by enterprises everywhere, supporting tasks like device characterization in semiconductor manufacturing, security selection in finance, and business intelligence reporting in government and academics.

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