SMB & Galephar Select Liquent Technology to Streamline Submission Publishing

SMB & Galephar Select Liquent Technology to Streamline Submission Publishing

September 05, 2007

Insight Publisher Is Industry's Only eCTD Solution Built On
Integrated Regulatory Information Management Platform

    PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, Sept. 5 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Liquent, a Thomson business and global leader in providing
regulatory software solutions, information products and
related services for the life sciences industry, today
announced that SMB & Galephar has selected InSight
Publisher to streamline its regulatory platform. InSight
Publisher is designed to accelerate the publishing process
for drug submissions to the world's regulatory authorities.


    InSight Publisher will enable SMB to create all the
components of both electronic and paper submissions from a
single assembly structure, enhancing efficiency and helping
to bring new drugs to the market faster. InSight Publisher
is built on the same platform as InSight Manager which
offers sophisticated registration management and submission
tracking capabilities and the entire platform is adaptable
to many different organizational processes and designs,
including centralized and decentralized publishing. 

    "The constantly changing regulatory framework
makes it more difficult than ever to develop and register
pharmaceutical products," said Philippe Baudier, SMB's
CEO. "We're confident that InSight Publisher will
shorten our time from finalized documents to the complete
eCTD -- making complex compliance simple and
seamless."

    InSight Publisher also provides other new features to
accelerate drug applications:

    -- Step-by-step wizards for eCTDs and study reports
help to streamline  
       the creation of submissions and reports that comply
with ICH,  
       Japanese, Canadian, US and other regional
specifications;

    -- The most complete eCTD Conformity Checking that
automatically performs 
       50 eCTD validation checks, including 32 ICH
compliance requirements;

    -- Templating capabilities that let companies
pre-define the structure of 
       their content and the placement of paper publishing
elements such as 
       tabs, slip sheets and cover pages;

    -- An eCTD import wizard that helps organizations to
continue their 
       lifecycle management of previously completed eCTD
submissions.

    "Liquent's InSight Publisher is the leading
product in regulatory publishing," said Jim Nichols,
Liquent's vice president of Product Strategy and Marketing.
"Our one-of-a-kind technology is sure to save SMB
critical time throughout their publishing process."

    Additional information about InSight Publisher is
available at http://www.liquent.com . 

    About Liquent Regulatory Solutions

    Liquent regulatory solutions provide software,
information products, and related services for the life
sciences industry. These solutions and services help ensure
clients meet the strict standards of regulatory authorities
across the world helping them achieve quality, accuracy,
and data integrity to deliver regulatory reports and
submissions reliably and on time. In addition to technology
and services, the Liquent IDRAC database service provides
the most comprehensive intelligence on the drug and
biologics regulatory environment in 38 of the largest
markets in the world. 

    As a result, 48 of the top 50 global life sciences
companies rely on Liquent regulatory solutions to stay
current with the latest intelligence and to provide the
technology and services to compress the regulatory
submissions and approval process, improving speed to
market, cost control, and productivity, all of which
contribute to ensuring patients' and physicians' timely
access to new drugs. Over the last decade, more than 5,000
regulatory submissions have been produced using Liquent
world-class products and expert services. For more
information please visit, http://www.liquent.com . 

    About The Thomson Corporation

    The Thomson Corporation ( http://www.thomson.com ) is a
global leader in providing essential electronic workflow
solutions to business and professional customers. With
operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson
provides value-added information, software tools and
applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax,
accounting, financial services, scientific research and
healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on
the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX:
TOC). 
 
    Thomson Scientific is a business of The Thomson
Corporation. Its information solutions assist professionals
at every stage of research and development-from discovery to
analysis to product development and distribution. Thomson
Scientific information solutions can be found at
http://www.scientific.thomson.com .





    For more information, please contact:

     Sue Besaw 
     Thomson Scientific
     Phone:    [phone]
     Email:    [e-mail] 
     Website:  http://www.liquent.com
               http://www.scientific.thomson.com 
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