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Pfizer selects Oracle Health Sciences InForm cloud service

Pfizer has selected Oracle Health Sciences InForm cloud service and the Oracle Siebel Clinical Trial Management and Monitoring cloud service to help manage and monitor its more than 300 clinical trials a year.

By using Oracle Health Sciences InForm Cloud Service, Pfizer will be able to use over 100,000 investigator sites already trained in InForm, says Oracle.

Pfizer will also use Oracle Siebel Clinical Trial Management and Monitoring Cloud Service.

[Image courtesy: Pfizer]

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