Click Commerce Announces Research Extranet 5.5; New Release Streamlines Research Administration Procedures for Healthcare and Higher Education Industry.CHICAGO -- Click Commerce, Inc. (Nasdaq:CKCM), a leading provider of extranet solutions for collaborative commerce, has released Research Extranet version 5.5 designed for use in the healthcare and higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. industry. The Research Extranet 5.5 software provides new applications and tools that can lead to improved efficiency of complicated human and animal subject research procedures. Leading universities and research institutions such as Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic: see Mayo, Charles Horace. Mayo Clinic voluntary association of more than 500 physicians in Rochester, Minnesota. [Am. Hist.: EB, 11: 723] See : Medicine , Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. , Northwestern University Northwestern University, mainly at Evanston, Ill.; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1855 by Methodists. In 1873 it absorbed Evanston College for Ladies. , the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. , and the University of Washington currently utilize Click Commerce's extranet solutions. It is expected that with the new Research Extranet 5.5, these institutions can develop and deploy customized research procedures more efficiently and improve the ability to share important research data across the organization. Research Extranet 5.5 includes the Process Studio, which allows institutions to easily manage the creation of research processes and launch these applications more quickly. With the addition of Process Studio, institutions can more effectively take advantage of the Research Extranet and potentially increase productivity immediately. Additionally, the new release provides support for Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , which facilitates easy integration with external applications. "Through our consortium of research clients, we receive daily feedback on what they need to help manage their data-intensive, time consuming research processes," said Steve Cole, senior vice president of product management and strategy for Click Commerce. "The Extranet 5.5 release provides research institutions the ability to easily manage the full life cycle of web applications development, from research process definition, design and testing through integration with existing legacy applications." The new release adds important functionality for users of the Click Institutional Review Board (IRB IRB See: Industrial Revenue Bond ) extranet and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees are of central importance to the application of laws to animal research in the United States. Most research involving laboratory animals is funded by the United States National Institutes of Health or other federal agencies. (IACUC IACUC Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee ) solution. IRB and IACUC administrators can leverage a new comprehensive reviewer notes feature, which allows review committees to make comments directly in the system, potentially streamlining the research approval process. This new feature also provides the ability to quickly identify changes in modifications submitted by researchers. The Click IACUC Extranet is currently in use by five institutions to manage animal research compliance requirements, and provides access to pre-award grants, bio-safety committees, and conflict of interest reporting applications. Click Commerce's Research Extranet 5.5 software is available now. Additional information regarding the software can be found at www.clickcommerce.com. Institutional Review Boards An institutional review board or IRB is a committee of physicians, statisticians Statisticians or people who made notable contributions to the theories of statistics, or related aspects of probability, or machine learning: A to E
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees An Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee is a committee that is charged with reviewing animal welfare issues in and approving all research involving use of animal subjects per federal guidelines. The Click Commerce IACUC extranet provides institutions with an Internet submission system for IACUC applications that simplifies application creation, eliminates routine errors, and alerts research teams of approaching deadlines. About Click Commerce, Inc. Click Commerce, Inc. (Nasdaq:CKCM) provides collaborative commerce solutions for sales and order management, supply chain management, service parts optimization, and compliance automation. Enterprises and institutions in the aerospace and defense, consumer product, distribution, financial services, higher education and health care, manufacturing, retail, telecom, and transportation industries utilize the Company's solutions. Click Commerce enables corporations such as Abbott Labs, Alaska Airlines, BAE Systems, Carrier, Cisco, Citibank, Dell, Delphi, Eastman Kodak, FedEx, Hewlett Packard, Home Shopping Network “HSN” redirects here. For other uses, see HSN (disambiguation). The Home Shopping Network (HSN) is a mostly 24-hour shopping network that is seen on cable, satellite, and some terrestrial channels in the United States. , Honda, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Pier 1, Ryder, Samsung, SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Communications, Tellabs, Verizon, and Xerox, to coordinate and optimize business procedures, accelerate revenue, lower costs, and improve customer service. Five of the top 10 research institutions in North America, including Johns Hopkins, University of Washington, and the University of Michigan, use the Company's compliance automation software to automate their regulatory compliance procedures and manage research project approvals. More information can be found at www.clickcommerce.com. Click Commerce is a registered trademark of Click Commerce, Inc. and its subsidiaries. All other company and product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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