Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of business
consulting services, today announced a strategic alliance with Forte
Research Systems, a leading provider of enterprise research software, to
enhance joint offerings to research institutions. The Huron-Forte
alliance is the result of a shared commitment to offer impactful
consulting services and effective software solutions to the research
industry to provide clients the following:
“The Huron-Forte alliance allows both organizations to provide greater
value to our shared clients,” said Rick
Rohrbach, managing director, Huron
Consulting Group. “Huron can help clients transform their clinical
research business processes using Forte’s OnCore. Huron will help Forte
customers optimize the implementation of OnCore and other Forte software
solutions to improve their return on investment. Most importantly, the
interfaces between our systems will provide customers a seamless and
effective research administration solution.”
“The Huron-Forte relationship will help clients gain greater efficiency
with their clinical trials portfolio. With increasing enterprise-wide
implementations and adoption of OnCore, Huron brings the required
experience in operational and implementation planning to serve a growing
need,” said Srini
Kalluri, president and chief executive officer, Forte
Research Systems. “Existing and new OnCore clients will also be able
to take advantage of a planned standards-based interface between Huron’s
Click IRB and OnCore application, which will further enhance researcher
productivity. Through this alliance, we are building on past success in
working closely together to broadly address customer needs. The people
and approaches on both sides are aligned well for taking this important
step together.”
The Huron-Forte alliance aims to increase researcher productivity and
improve compliance oversight through tight integration of the two
companies’ products and services. Huron will expand its ability to
provide clinical trials solutions beyond its current highly configurable Click
Portal. At the same time, Forte gains a deployment partner with
significant industry expertise and scale to accelerate the market
adoption of their leading OnCore product, which includes CTMS,
electronic data capture, and biospecimen management functionality.
About Forte Research Systems
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, Forte
Research Systems, Inc. develops and markets clinical and
translational research software for better research compliance, patient
safety, operational efficiency, and financial viability. The company's
flagship product, the OnCore Enterprise Research system, has been
meeting the needs of academic medical centers, CTSAs, research
hospitals, and cancer centers for over a dozen years. Now, its proven
electronic data capture platform is available as a stand-alone hosted
solution for academic researchers, Overture™ EDC. For
research sites, site networks, and SMOs, Forte offers Allegro®
CTMS. Forte is also host to the Clinical Research Blog and other
resources for individuals interested in excellence in clinical research
operations.
About Click, a Huron Solution
Huron's Click® Portal software has been developed to meet the
needs of leading academic medical centers and research institutions
throughout North America. Click solutions are deployed by consulting
experts from Huron
Education working in conjunction with local client teams.
Configurable applications for grants administration, research
compliance, and clinical trials efficiently manage the business of
research by combining information technology with industry best
practices. Huron Education’s professionals have worked with more than 95
of the top 100 research universities in the U.S. More information can be
found at www.huronconsultinggroup.com/click
or follow us on Twitter: @Huron.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries improve
performance, reduce costs, leverage technology, process and review large
amounts of complex data, address regulatory changes, recover from
distress and stimulate growth. Our professionals employ their expertise
in administration, management, finance, operations, strategy and
technology to provide our clients with specialized analyses and
customized advice and solutions that are tailored to address each
client's particular challenges and opportunities to deliver sustainable
and measurable results. The Company provides consulting services to a
wide variety of both financially sound and distressed organizations,
including healthcare organizations, leading academic institutions,
Fortune 500 companies, governmental entities and law firms. Huron has
worked with more than 95 of the top 100 research universities, more than
400 corporate general counsel, and more than 385 hospitals and academic
medical centers. Learn more at www.huronconsultinggroup.com.
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