MPI Research Selects ISIToolBox To Prepare Sponsor Companies For Electronic Submissions

Image Solutions, Inc., (ISI), a leader in providing software and services to streamline the drug development lifecycle, announced recently that MPI Research has selected ISIToolBox to help manage electronic submissions on behalf of sponsors who are filing electronic common technical documents (eCTDs) with regulatory agencies. ISIToolBox, which is currently used by the top 25 global pharmaceutical companies, will help MPI Research simplify its processes for creating, editing and managing regulatory compliant documents.

ISIToolBox provides a set of more than 40 PDF plug-ins designed to make companies work with PDFs faster and easier while eliminating the challenges, cost and work involved in preparing electronic documents for report-level publishing. It has been shown to achieve efficiency gains of almost 70% in file preparation time and 75% reduction in the time needed to conduct quality assurance of a submission, thus achieving faster market approval. Early metrics show that MPI is cutting its average document preparation time almost in half -- a huge benefit to sponsors.

"MPI has a strategic goal to be ahead of the curve in responding to agency eCTD requirements," said Mary Ann Scott, Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs at MPI Research. "ISIToolBox not only helps MPI meet the needs of our sponsors to be compliant with agencies that accept eCTDs, but it is also saves time and helps us quickly and easily create reports and studies in required formats.

MPI Research, a privately held company that focuses on the non-clinical research needs of the pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, agricultural and related industries, chose ISIToolBox in order to help the company ensure high quality, on-time research that adds value to the process of developing products in a regulated environment.

"We are very pleased that MPI Research has chosen ISIToolBox as the definitive choice to help the company streamline its ongoing research," said Paul Chung, Senior Vice President of ISI Software & Services Operations. "ISIToolBox has a proven track record with the world's top pharmaceutical companies and ISI plans to continue to advance the industry with our full line of products and services."

ISIToolBox is one of the most robust Adobe Acrobat plug-in tool sets in the pharmaceutical industry. It allows users to bookmark documents instantly or create thousands of hyperlinks with just one click. In addition, ISIToolBox enables automated validation and the maintenance of Quality Assurance logs down to the link or bookmark level. On-the-fly Optical Character Recognition makes editing scanned pages and text easy, and can enable the extraction of text and graphics simply by dragging a box around the content needed.

ISIToolBox 6.0 will be released in 4th quarter 2007 and will include new functionality from its product Compose, creating the most powerful set of PDF plug-ins in the industry. With the products' combined functionality, there will be an even more efficient process for bookmarking and hyperlinking. ISI purchased the software business unit from InfoData in 2005, which included Compose and AnnoDoc, an annotation solution.

About Image Solutions, Inc.
Founded in 1992, Image Solutions, Inc (ISI) is a proven market leader in providing submissions solutions, process services and consulting to Life Sciences companies as a way to improve clinical and regulatory processes that bring new medicines to market. ISI was among the first professional services firm to deliver electronic submissions to the industry and since has delivered nearly 1,000 electronic submissions and 400 eCTD submissions. ISI serves the top 50 pharmaceutical and biotech organizations as well as the top companies in other regulated industries.

ISI is a privately held company with headquarters in Whippany, New Jersey and operations throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. ISI also remains committed to giving back to society and sharing its success with others by donating 10 percent of annual net profits to charitable over 20 recognized charitable organizations. For more information, visit the company website at www.imagesolutions.com.

SOURCE: Image Solutions, Inc.