Accenture and Skila to Develop Knowledge Solutions for Pharmaceutical Product Launches.Business, Technology, and Medical Editors NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of & MAHWAH, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 2001 Accenture (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : ACN ACN Accenture (stock symbol) ACN Accenture ACN Australian Company Number ACN Automatic Collision Notification (US DOT) ACN Acetonitrile ACN Anglican Communion Network ), the world's leading provider of management and technology consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" and solutions, and Skila, Inc., the leading provider of Web-based global knowledge solutions for the business of healthcare, today announced an alliance to develop and market new knowledge solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical products industries. Together, Accenture and Skila aim to enhance time to market for new product launches by designing and creating a solution that supports collaboration and the capture and sharing of knowledge across project teams, functions and geographies. "Increasingly, collaboration and the speed to capture, synthesize To create a whole or complete unit from parts or components. See synthesis. and share knowledge are becoming key differentiators among pharmaceutical companies," said Scott Myers, partner in the Pharmaceuticals & Medical Products practice at Accenture. "With Skila's technology, our knowledge solutions will help ease collaboration and the sharing of both explicit and implicit knowledge at these organizations. As a result, they will dramatically increase the effectiveness and speed of their new product launch activities." Accenture brings its deep skills in pharmaceutical business process and strategy, human performance, and technology to the alliance. Skila brings its knowledge services, healthcare industry expertise, and Intelligration(TM) technology for capturing and identifying, and visualizing the relationships between the intelligence and knowledge of experts, data, text documents and other critical information. Together, Skila and Accenture will create solutions designed to help new product launch teams incorporate collaboration - as well as the management and usage of internal and external information -- into their daily activities. "Knowledge resides throughout silos in most pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device organizations, and the challenge lies in extracting and exchanging relevant intelligence across these silos and with external stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. ," added Moish Tov, chairman of Skila. "With Accenture, we will be able to help our client companies unlock the critical knowledge in their organizations." About Skila Skila, Inc., is dedicated to providing turnkey, configurable knowledge solutions for the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology industries to improve its healthcare partners' critical business processes, such as New Product Launch, Product Life Cycle Management, and Licensing. Skila's revolutionary Web-based iWorksite redefines how healthcare intelligence decisions are made, through an integrated suite of decision-enabling applications, relevant market-based intelligence and connectivity. Using Skila's Intelligration(TM) technology, all internal data and text-based information throughout an organization and relevant external information from key markets around the world are synthesized syn·the·sized adj. 1. Relating to or being an instrument whose sound is modified or augmented by a synthesizer. 2. Relating to or being compositions or a composition performed on synthesizers or synthesized instruments. into complete, organized and relevant healthcare intelligence. Driven by Intelligration(TM), clients receive succinct suc·cinct adj. suc·cinct·er, suc·cinct·est 1. Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse: a succinct reply; a succinct style. 2. views of actionable intelligence Having the necessary information immediately available in order to deal with the situation at hand. With regard to call centers, it refers to agents having customer history and related product data available on screen before the call is taken. enabling smarter, faster and more confident business decisions. Skila is privately held and headquartered in Mahwah, New Jersey Mahwah is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 24,062. The name Mahwah is derived from the Lenni Lenape word "mawewi" which means "Meeting Place" or "Place Where Paths Meet". , with offices in Somerville, New Jersey Somerville is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 12,423. It is the county seat of Somerset CountyGR6. , England and Japan. For more information on Skila and its knowledge solutions, please visit them at http://www.skila.com. About Accenture Accenture is the world's leading provider of management and technology consulting services and solutions, with more than 75,000 people in 46 countries delivering a wide range of specialized capabilities and solutions to clients across all industries. Accenture operates globally with one common brand and business model designed to enable the company to serve its clients on a consistent basis around the world. Under its strategy, Accenture is building a network of businesses to meet the full range of any organization's needs - consulting, technology, outsourcing, alliances and venture capital. The company generated revenues before reimbursements of $9.75 billion for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2000, and $8.67 billion for the nine months ended May 31, 2001. Its home page is www.accenture.com. |
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