Liquent, Inc. and TAKE Solutions Enter Into Strategic Partnership

PHILADELPHIA, March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Liquent, Inc. today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with TAKE Solutions Ltd. (BSE: 532890), leaders in Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Life Sciences products, to provide offshore publishing services.  Together, Liquent and TAKE Solutions offer fully outsourced publishing capabilities through a combination of offshore resources, onshore industry experts and onsite specialists, all while providing regulatory expertise to increase efficiencies to the market.

"Our relationship with TAKE Solutions enables Liquent to provide a best-of-breed, cost effective, outsourced publishing solution to the market," said Rick Riegel, Liquent's Chief Executive Officer.  "By combining TAKE Solutions' offshore delivery capabilities with our onshore and onsite capabilities and industry expertise, Liquent is able to significantly increase the value of the solutions we provide to companies in the life sciences industry."

This strategic partnership will enable Liquent and TAKE Solutions to flexibly provide both onsite support and outsourcing resources, providing the most comprehensive publishing solution in the market today.  In today's market, Life Sciences companies are looking to outsource less strategic and overflow activities, to reduce costs and increase efficiencies.  TAKE Solutions' strength in the Life Sciences domain particularly in the area of submission of results from clinical studies in marketing applications to support regulatory review makes it an attractive proposition for the purpose.

"TAKE Solutions is extremely pleased to partner with a credible and acclaimed Life Sciences solution major like Liquent," said Mr. Kishore Rachapudi, President and Chief Operating Officer, TAKE Solutions Inc. He further added, "By this alliance, we are really looking forward to address the challenges by providing cutting-edge customized solutions; that will be implemented to meet the unique business requirements of our clients in this space."

Liquent's Regulatory & Clinical Services provides a validated global publishing center along with support of worldwide clinical trial applications, marketing approvals and regulatory product maintenance.  Including:

• Global submission publishing
• Submission lifecycle management
• Staff augmentation / onsite support
• CTD templates and best practice authoring services
• eCTD education and preparedness
• QC audits
• Regulatory writing

About Liquent, Inc.

Liquent regulatory solutions provide software and related regulatory and clinical 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.

As a result, global life sciences companies, small tier to large tier, rely on Liquent regulatory solutions 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, www.liquent.com.

About TAKE Solutions

TAKE Solutions is a leading international business technology company with products backed by a strong domain expertise in Life Sciences and Supply Chain Management - to provide cost-effective, comprehensive solutions for businesses. The vision of the company is to drive industry best practices through our proprietary, in-depth product know-how and solutions that enable business efficiencies for our clients. Since its inception in 2000, TAKE has been serving marquee clients in the Life Sciences and SCM arena. TAKE Solutions conducts business today in 16 countries with more than 390 customers.

Headquartered in Chennai, TAKE primarily drives its SCM Domain Excellence Centre and Global Delivery Centre from India. Company has strong presence in the USA with Life Sciences Domain Excellence centres located in Princeton, New Jersey.

TAKE Solutions is assessed at Level 5 of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) & Level 3 of the People Capability Maturity Model, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. TAKE Solutions is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a Charter Member of the Microsoft BioIT Alliance, and is a Registered CDISC Solution Provider. TAKE Supply Chain is a division of TAKE Solutions. For more information about TAKE Solutions visit www.TAKESolutions.com.

SOURCE Liquent, Inc.