Emory University Selects Click Commerce Research Extranet; Solution to Provide One-Stop Portal for Southeast's Leading Research Institution.CHICAGO -- Click Commerce, Inc. (Nasdaq:CKCM), a leading provider of extranet solutions for collaborative commerce, announced today that Emory University Emory University (ĕm`ərē), near Atlanta, Ga.; coeducational; United Methodist; chartered as Emory College 1836, opened 1837 at Oxford. It became Emory Univ. in 1915 and in 1919 moved to Atlanta. has selected the Click Commerce Research Extranet to streamline its research approval processes. Click's Research Extranet will assist Emory researchers in meeting federal compliance requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds). for research projects and improving the efficiency and accuracy of intricate application processes. The automation of research approval processes will include research involving human and animal subjects, as well as radioactive materials, chemicals and biohazardous materials. "With their extensive domain expertise and the flexibility and scalability of their solution, Click Commerce was the obvious choice for our institution," said Michael Mandl, executive vice president of Emory University. "Click's breadth of applications will allow us to roll out our own processes and forms, which will help us save time and resources by streamlining these necessary, but complex, approval procedures." Click's expertise in compliance software is supported by the Click Commerce Compliance Consortium, a group that includes 25 top research institutions such as Mayo Clinic, 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. , the University of Washington, 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. , the University of Pittsburgh, and Duke University. The consortium shares best practices and collaborates on key issues in e-research and compliance. "We believe that Emory University's vision of a one-stop research extranet is an example of its commitment to advancing the pace of biomedical research and increasing researcher productivity," said Nancy Koenig, executive vice president of operations for Click Commerce. "Like other leading institutions, Emory selected the Click Research Extranet due to its proven ability to help streamline the overall compliance process and ensure the necessary checks and balances." Compliance Review Boards Compliance review boards, such as Institutional Review Boards (IRB IRB See: Industrial Revenue Bond ) and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC IACUC Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee ), are committees 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
NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. ), require that research studies in the United States be approved by compliance review boards before they begin work. The Click Commerce Research Extranet provides institutions with an Internet submission system that improves the efficiency of compliance approval processes by simplifying application creation, eliminating routine errors, and alerting research teams of approaching deadlines. About Emory University Emory University is home to nine major academic divisions, numerous centers for advanced study, and a host of prestigious affiliated institutions. In addition to Emory College, the University encompasses a graduate school of arts and sciences; professional schools of medicine, theology, law, nursing, public health, and business; and Oxford College, a two-year undergraduate division on the original campus of Emory in Oxford, Ga. Emory was founded at Oxford by the Methodist Church in 1836. Led by President James W. Wagner James W. Wagner is the president of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Wagner came to Emory in September 2003 after serving as provost and interim president of Case Western Reserve University. He is the successor to William Chace. , the University has 11,800 students and 2,500 faculty members who represent all regions of the United States and more than 100 foreign nations. 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 processes, 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 processes 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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