Current Landscape
The EDC landscape has continued to evolve from its evolution from RDE in the late 1990s, leveraging the latest in internet-based technologies. Today the market consists of a variety of new and established software providers. Many of these providers offer specialized solutions targeting certain customer profiles or study phases. In addition to pure software companies; some pharmaceutical, biotech and contract research organizations have developed their own EDC systems (ex: Cisys LifeSciences Sequence EDC Platform, e-SOCDAT, edcpro, Clinion).This practice, however, was more popular back in the mid to late 1990s, With the evolution of the EDC marketplace, developing customized solutions has given way to more commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions as technology has improved over the years.
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