Click Commerce Announces Research Extranet 5.5
New Release Streamlines Research Administration Procedures for Healthcare and Higher Education Industry
August 24, 2005
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 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, Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, 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, 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) extranet and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) 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, researchers, community advocates, and others that ensure research studies involving human subjects are ethical and that the rights of study participants are protected. All studies involving human subjects in the United States must be approved by an IRB before they begin. The Click Commerce IRB extranet provides institutions with an Internet submission system for IRB applications that simplifies application creation, eliminates routine errors, and alerts research teams of approaching deadlines.
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
Click Commerce, Inc., (Nasdaq: CKCM), a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions, enables millions of users in 70 countries to collaborate, in real time, with business partners across the extended enterprise. Click Commerce solutions support the unique business processes of multiple industry segments such as manufacturing, aerospace and defense, and high-tech. Click Commerce enables corporations including Alaska Airlines, BASF, Citibank, Delphi, Eastman Kodak Company, Jabil Global Services, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Pier 1, Ryder, SAP, and Verizon to coordinate and optimize business processes, accelerate revenue, lower costs, and improve customer service. More information can be found at www.clickcommerce.com.
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