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Constella Biomedical Informatics Introduces New Biomedical Knowledge Exchange Solution

Constella Orion gives small- to medium- biopharmaceutical and biotechnology companies complete, secure control of vital clinical, manufacturing and marketing data. The online exchange solution offers users a single place to store, organize and retrieve vast amounts of information such as clinical and pre-clinical data, journal articles, graphic documents, market performance data and competitive analysis. By removing traditional barriers in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing supply chain, Constella Orion empowers companies to bring new therapies to market much sooner, at a significantly lower cost.

Constella Orion provides users with a number of benefits:

• Control of biomedical knowledge in a real-time environment
• Collaborative, secure Web-based environment that gives clients visibility into their data
• Easy, permission-based data access
• Significant cost savings through Constella's leveraged investments
• Configurable user interface
• Complete IT regulatory compliance

• User Interface: A configurable dashboard view that allows user-centric views into all of Constella Orion's subsystems based on user profile and information most frequented. The interface provides an e-mail interface to the Document & Data Repository, easy access and return for each subsystem, and single sign-on for all subsystems.
• Clinical Data Management System: A source data system that collects and aggregates study information, to be fed into the Document & Data Repository.
• Document & Data Repository System: A central location—the heart of the exchange—where all study data are organized and stored as analysis-ready data.
• Data Manipulation System: A set of tools provided for real-time analysis of organized and aggregated data.
• Customer Support System: A lifecycle management system that includes support for comprehensive change management and customer issue tracking.
• Knowledge Transfer System: An online training and education system that provides guidance and motivation to all system users, as well as complete tracking of all training records.
• Regulated Managed Hosting Infrastructure: A system enabling all data transactions to take place in complete regulatory compliance.

About Constella Biomedical Informatics
Constella Biomedical Informatics (formerly mednetics LLC) is a leading regulatory informatics business whose systems provide clients with complete, secure and regulatory-compliant control of their vital knowledge-from discovery to clinical, and from manufacturing to marketing. The business is a trusted steward of regulatory informatics data, serving The New Biological Economy and enhancing human health by safeguarding the data of life^™.

About Constella Group, Inc.
Constella Biomedical Informatics is a business unit of Constella Group, Inc., formerly Analytical Sciences, Inc. (ASI), a leading provider of professional health services worldwide, now celebrating 20 years of enhancing human health through innovative science, technology and knowledge solutions. Constella's three business units—Health Sciences, Biomedical Informatics and Health Strategies—conduct health research and provide a variety of technical, professional and strategic consulting services to help industry and government clients identify and solve problems affecting human health. With Constella as the parent company, the three business units comprise dynamic points of collaboration that build support, create momentum and add value from idea to impact across the full continuum of human health.

The company's 640 employees serve clients from company headquarters in Durham, N.C., and from offices in Atlanta; Austin, Texas; Morgantown, W.Va.; Bethesda, Frederick and Silver Spring, Md., and in Santa Monica, Calif., Herndon, Va., and Boston.