In a fast changing industry, all companies are turning to RAD to help them keep up.

Sevenview the first RAD in Industrial Automation

All industrial companies expecially life sciences and food & beverage, are under extreme pressure from all directions, including increased competition, regulatory constraints, M&As and line of business. Frequently, with less staff and fewer financial resources, departments are being forced to achieve more in shorter timescales. Many of the issues are the result of fundamental changes in regulations, a takeover or merger, or problems such as a failure in the clinical trial process, requiring immediate resolution and alternative action. The speed of change across life sciences operations has been astounding. Unfortunately, the internai tools and systems to meet these challenges have not kept pace. The result is an industry constantly fighting to keep up. Senior managers have responded with attempts to make wholesale changes to ageing systems even though the pain level can be high.

Why a RAD
As life sciences companies struggle to keep up with these changes, some pharmaceutical players are finding that rapid application development (RAD) can help them keep pace with the market's la test demands. Instead of turning to one-size-fits-all enterprise management systems to replace legacy systems, they are turning to RAD because it provides more accurate and predictable results, given its highly customizable nature. Essentially, RAD is a set of tools - such as CASE or object-oriented programming techniques - that àllows for rapid prototyping and reiterative testing that enable faster development and implementation of new applications. In short, for an operational manager, RAD means workable applications in a fraction of the time. In the world of life sciences in particular, this has helped eliminate the all-too-common problem of unveiling a new application, only to find that it is no longer relevant.