Externalization and Partnerships: The New Wave of Informatics Integration Devolution of Traditional Informatics Architectures
Michael H Elliott
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Externalization is the pursuit of a fully or partially virtualized R&D model integrating partner companies with specific skills or capabilities
It runs the gambit from licensing, academic target id, to pay-per-assay services, risk-sharing partnerships, crowdsourcing - all the way through to jointly owned intellectual property
What is Meant by “Externalization?”
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Future of BioPharma R&D
2011 R&D Spending
Internal 67%
External 33%
2017 Estimate
Internal 42%
External 58%
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Pharma Industry has cut 297,000 positions since 2000
However, segment remains tied for largest R&D investor
Majority of drugs in clinical trials did not originate inside the walls of big pharma
Something to Think About
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"What Sanofi is doing is reducing its own internal research capacity. The days when we locked all of our scientists up in a building and put them on a nice tree-lined campus are done. We’re not going to get out of research. We believe we do certain things well in research but we want to work with more outside companies, startup biotechs, with universities."
Chris Viehbacher, CEO of Sanofi:
� Lower and/or variable costs
� Access to expertise
� Lowering and/or sharing risk
� New ideas / innovation
� More eyes on the problem
� Agility
� Where the patients are
� “Let’s try something different and see if this works”
What are Some of the Drivers of Externalization?
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Externalization Trends
� Growing 20%+ while R&D spending is flat
� Many companies report desire to target 30-50% of pipeline portfolio originating from outside
� Most report they will be using the same number of partners for the foreseeable future but expanding current relationships
� Growing trend of full horizontal integration (programmatic partners) and risk-based arrangements
� Asia partnerships dominated by small molecule but biologics is quickly emerging
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No company has an externalization strategy that they know for sure will work in the long run
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It is a Different World Out There for IT
Internal � Can implement common
data workflow solutions
� Can deploy common master data
� Can support common IP practices and policies
� Can enforce common desktop solutions and software
� Can support a common material workflow
� Know the people to support
External � Multiple workflows dependent on
growing number of partners
� Wide differences in vocabularies that change often
� Different IP management practices depending on partner
� Different platforms and software to support
� Material distributed across the globe
� Have no idea who all the people are who might use systems
Externalization is Leading Us Toward “Informatics Devolution”
Over 75% of companies exchange data via MS Office or PDF
To This
IT Challenges � IT and operations tends to follow business development,
resulting in firefighting
� Only 25% of companies surveyed have an a strategy on how they will approach externalization
� Vast majority of companies tactically share data with partners via MS Office-based exchanges
� A minority of companies enable partners direct access to systems
� CROs stress increasing with the number of client systems
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R&D virtualization is the biggest challenge facing biopharma IT organizations over the next ten years
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Research Virtualization is Altering the Vendor Landscape
Newer Entrants Major Investors
Tech Companies Coming into Life Science Driven by Externalization
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“Solutions” tend to be collections of niche capabilities. This is generally not a problem when working with functional partners
The trend toward programmatic partners results in multiple software deployments with incompatible security architectures
Challenge with Vendor Solutions
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There will never be an acceptable vendor solution that scales across R&D Standards help, but do not solve the problem (reference DICOM, SEND, CDISC, AniML,…)
Something(s) to Think About
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There is No Single Solution Across All Partner Scenarios
Relationship � Functional or Programmatic? � Strategic or Tactical?
Process
Data
Trust
Systems
� What is the workflow? � One way or bi-directional?
� What data need to be shared? Structured or unstructured? Both?
� A standard, our format, or theirs?
� Will they use our system or theirs? � How will systems communicate?
� What is the level of trust? � What levels of access is required?
Partner Strategies are Customized Based on Risk Analysis
Relationship Trust Process Data Systems Implications
Programmatic Full strategic partnership in disease area
Highly trusted, shared risk
Bi-directional sharing of program data
Large number of file types. Agreement on formats
Shared technologies Treat as extension of internal resources. Common formats
Programmatic Strategic partner for a target
Trusted, but only for specific projects
Bi-directional sharing of specific project data
Large number of file types. Not agreement on formats
Can be shared technologies
Must convert data. Must secure by project
Functional Strategic technology partner
Trusted, but only for specific technology(s)
Bi-directional sharing of limited project data
Generally in client format
Often, partners use their own systems
Must segment data. Access to only technology area
Functional Major services partner
Long term relationship. Medium trust
Data mostly one way. Might be entire studies (e.g., tox)
In client format. Medium number of data types
Use of client systems Access to workflow. Must manage users and review results
Functional Major services partner
Long term relationship. Medium trust
Data mostly one way. Might be entire studies (e.g., tox)
In contractor format. Medium number of data types
Receive output from contractor
Not real time. Must convert data. No security worries
Functional Low cost services
Low level of trust but building as used more often
Data one way. Could be med chem, assay services
In client format. Low number of data types
Use of client systems Access to workflow but security worries. Must review results
Functional Low cost services
Low level of trust. Use infrequently
Data one way. Compound out, data back
In contractor format. Low number of data types
Receive output from contractor
Not real time. Must convert data. No security worries
� Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
� Business Process Management (BMP)
� Identity management
� Digital signatures
� ETL services
� Large file transfer
� Site development environment
� Integration services
� Provisioning policies/procedures
� Security policies
� …
Create and Leverage a Common Toolbox Across the Partner Ecosystem
If you do not have master data, it is difficult to enforce “standards” on your partners
A Possible Future View of “Data Logistics”
Future State: • Single ecosystem for data transmission
• Business rules engine (BPM) to automate workflow and status updating
• Large data set transfer
• Staging
• Master data management
• Transformation and posting
Current State: • Trapped data in MS Office and
PDFs
• Email data transformation
• Manual data review
• Files scattered across servers
• Manual data conversion
• Lack of business rules
Staging Area
Bioassay
Images
LIMS
ELN
Docu-ments
Data Ware-house Transformation
and Upload Services
BPM Rules
Engine
Partner A
Transfer Services
Partner B
Partner C
Partner System
Cloud Data Management
Submission Portal
Data Review Partner D
Big Co Pharma
� Virtualization is a trend blowing up traditional R&D models
� It is essential to develop IT and information security strategies around externalization with the knowledge it may vary by partner
� Treat IT as a partner and involve early in business development. Before developing new partnerships, consider the complexities of data and material logistics
� Be open to the cloud, but carefully consider the consequence
Ending Thoughts
Externalization will radically change IT strategies and established modes of operation
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Michael H Elliott
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