Pistoia Alliance Selects Cognizant and Eagle Genomics for Cloud-Based Platform

Pistoia Alliance, Inc., a nonprofit, precompetitive alliance of life science companies and vendors has selected Cognizant (News - Alert) and Eagle Genomics to develop a conceptual cloud-based platform, Cognizant has announced.

Cognizant cloud solutions offer vendor-neutral approach, combined with multi-platform expertise and an aggregated delivery model. It helps clients navigate the challenges and opportunities available to improve business processes and create dynamic, collaborative work environments.

For securely storing and mining both proprietary derived gene/sequence information and public domain gene databases, the Pistoia Alliance's sequence services working group aims to define and document an externally hosted service. While leveraging the flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiencies of a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) platform, this conceptual platform developed by Cognizant and Eagle Genomics, as part of this piloting stage, will enable working group companies to securely share their bioinformatics resources.

“We look forward to partnering with Eagle Genomics in helping Pistoia Alliance address the challenges of fast evolving sequence services while streamlining communication and workflows," said Peter Sheppard, Assistant Vice President, Life Sciences practice at Cognizant. "We are committed to leveraging our domain-intensive global resources, deep understanding of drug development processes and cloud computing models, and global program management and delivery capabilities.”

To effectively deliver the business solution, Cognizant and Eagle Genomics will combine the best of their consulting, domain, technology, and business process expertise. Cognizant will manage the development of the platform, oversee testing and security validation, and help strengthen the initiative by managing relationships with existing and potential member organizations, while Eagle Genomics will contribute specialized bioinformatics knowledge.

Recently, Cognizant announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Marks & Spencer to aid them during the peak shopping season by enhancing business effectiveness and operational efficiencies. Marks & Spencer is one of the UK’s leading retailers. According the terms of the multi-year managed services contract, Cognizant will be providing end-to-end, integrated applications and infrastructure management services to Marks & Spencer (M&S). Cognizant’s services will support Marks & Spencer’s mission-critical applications.