Industry - Life Sciences

IT Solutions for Life Sciences & Biotech

Pharmaceutical, biotech, and other life science firms face the demanding task of adhering to stringent regulatory standards and compliance as they experience rapid expansion. What they require are managed IT solutions that streamline compliance, ensuring swift and cost-effective scalability to support their operations as they transition from early-stage to market-ready enterprises. Life science companies that secure Series C funding are also prime targets for cyber-attacks.

We help our life science clients to have a secure, scalable, and “Audit-Ready” IT infrastructure.

Top IT Challenges for Life Science & Pharma Companies

Life Science companies, like many other sectors, face unique challenges when it comes to managing their IT infrastructure cybersecurity, and technology needs:

Regulatory Compliance

Adhering to stringent regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, and FDA requirements while maintaining efficient IT operations

is complex and demanding.

Data Security and Privacy

Protecting sensitive patient data, research findings, and intellectual property from breaches and cyber-attacks

is a critical challenge.

Managing Big Data

Life science companies deal with massive volumes of data from clinical trials, research, and patient records.

Efficiently storing, processing, and analyzing this data is a significant challenge.

Integration of Systems

Life science firms often use a variety of specialized software and systems. Ensuring seamless integration and

interoperability among these systems can be difficult.

Cloud Adoption and Data Migration

Transitioning to cloud-based solutions while ensuring data integrity, security, and regulatory

compliance poses challenges.

Legacy Systems

Many life science companies still rely on outdated legacy systems. Updating and integrating these systems

with modern technologies is a common obstacle.

Cost Management

Balancing the costs of implementing and maintaining sophisticated IT infrastructures with budget constraints

is an ongoing challenge.

Remote Collaboration

Especially highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic, facilitating effective collaboration among remote teams for

research, development, and clinical trials is crucial.

Vendor Management

Working with various technology vendors and ensuring they meet security, compliance, and performance

standards is a significant challenge for IT departments in life science firms.

How We Address the IT Challenges for Life Science Companies

We help our life science clients to have a scalable and audit-ready IT infrastructure.

Create an audit-ready IT environment via our managed Compliance
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) support
True fixed-cost managed IT. No nickel & diming
247 Security Operation Center (SOC)
IT & Cybersecurity training for all staff
CloudDesktop (virtual desktop) for remote staff
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to monitor & protect sensitive data
IT & Security roadmap and budget creation
Backup and DR plan creation and testing
Work-from-home policy implementation
Onboarding and offboarding process creation
Vendor management and selection
Cost-benefit analysis to optimize IT spend

Learn How We Are Impacting Unicycive to Transform Kidney Treatment

Unicycive, a Bay Area based, biotech public startup has introduced a transformative kidney treatment process and TruAdvantage takes pride to be their IT partner to deliver peace of mind security, IT and Compliance.