This document discusses collaboration components for R&D including information assets, people, systems for data management and content management, data models, search capabilities, and multi-step processes. It addresses the challenges of enabling connections between people and systems, sharing content and data, and securing information. Finally, it proposes services and platforms to support content management, search and sharing, computing, and an overall collaboration platform with connectivity to both internal and external partners.

1. R&D Collaboration
Bio IT 2014
Sébastien Lefebvre
April 2014

2. Collaboration components
:
– Main information assets (i.e. master data) + their sources + their context (e.g. business process,
taxonomy & vocabs)
– “convenience” vs “formal/official”
:
– Partners/People via IAM; federated model (i.e. PingFederate), Hub&Spoke (e.g. ADFS)
– CRO (e.g. www.assaydepot.com), KOL (e.g. http://knodeinc.com/)
:
– “Transactional/operational” systems: data management (e.g. databases), content management– “Transactional/operational” systems: data management (e.g. databases), content management
(e.g. Documentum, Wiki, SharePoint), files hares (e.g. Gdrive, IntraLinks)
– Drive guidelines, best practices, policies …training may be required to comply with regulations
:
– The language you will use and its representation …Data models, Graph models, Tags &
Ontologies
:
– path to content…Search (e.g. Sinequa.com), specialized content “channels” (e.g. Dashboards)
:
– Multi step processes across partners (e.g. Deloitte/RAPID, SharePoint workflows)

3. BioPharma
Type of Collaboration
Point to Point (B2B)
Hub and Spoke
Partner network (FIPNet)

4. Architecture challenge
• Support “communication”
– People and System Connection challenge
• Enable content/information/data flow
– Sharing & Orchestration challenge– Sharing & Orchestration challenge
• Secure content/information/data
– Security challenge (e.g. encryption, IAM!)
• Identify integration patterns
– Information Connection challenge

5. R&D Content Management Service
External PartnersOn-Premise Security/gate
way Support
Business
Needs
Partners
Needs
KM policies, guidelines
& best practices
KM advisory
group
VPN
HTTPS
XML gateways
ADFS
Federate IAM
SOA
Content Management Service
Creation
Clean up
Consolidation
Deletion
Archiving
Migration
ImagingELN

6. R&D Find & Share Service
External PartnersOn-Premise Security/gat
eway
Support
Enterprise
Search
Partner
SearchPolicies, guidelines &
best practices
KM advisory group
VPN
HTTPS
XML gateways
ADFS
Federate IAM
SOA
MDM
• Controlled vocab
• Reference data
• Master data
VPC
All internal
repositories
SaaS/PaaS

7. R&D Computing Service
External PartnersOn-Premise Security/gat
eway
Support
Computing Service
Business
Needs
Partners
NeedsPolicies, guidelines &
best practices
Computing advisory
group
VPN
HTTPS
XML gateways
ADFS
Federate IAM
SOA
Computing Service
Job Mgt
Template Mgt
HW monitoring
Provisioning (Memory, Nodes, Network)
Application/package support
Scientific Consulting
VPC
Imaging

8. R&D Collaboration Platforms
End user
Experience
Platform
ExternalOn premise
Connectivity
Support
Analytics
Platform
HTTPS/Secure sockets,
HTML/XML gateway, Citrix
HTTPS/Secure sockets,
HTML/XML gateway, Citrix
HTTPS/Secure socketsHTTPS/Secure sockets
Operational
Platform
Information
Platform MDM
(Reference Data, Master Data, Controlled Vocabs)
HTTPS/Secure sockets,
HTML/XML gateway,
SOA
HTTPS/Secure sockets,
HTML/XML gateway,
SOA
HTTPS/Secure sockets,
ADFS, VPN
HTTPS/Secure sockets,
ADFS, VPN
Specialized
Platform
BioBook ChemBook
ARISg CTMSCiDRHTS NGS
HTTPS/Secure sockets
HTML/XML gateway,
SOA, VPN
HTTPS/Secure sockets
HTML/XML gateway,
SOA, VPN
Assay Workflow Manager™