Planet Overview
Planet Platform Unifies All R&D Program Management Functions
Data Form's Planet is holistic platform that optimizes pharmaceutical R&D program management. It's the universe used by hundreds of people involved in the R&D process to provide and receive definitive information about all aspects of every R&D project. With Planet, individual R&D projects are tightly managed from inception to the handover to the commercialization team. Planet systematically provides multiple levels of control over the quality and accuracy of plans and budgets through the use of approved templates for project types (including standardized critical paths), pre-established work rules, an understanding of project dependencies and automated coupling of tasks and allowable associated costs.
With so many concurrent R&D projects underway and the value of time to market being so high (consider that the value of expediting a new drug valued at $500M annually by one week is nearly $10M), resources - money, people and time -- cannot lay idle. Pharmaceutical R&D program managers are always looking for opportunities to "put and take" among the projects based on the actual project plans and budget relative to forecasts.
Planet provides all the functionality needed by any stakeholders in the R&D process including project managers, financial analysts and department managers (e.g. from toxicology, clinical trial management, chemistry manufacturing and controls or regulatory affairs).
The Planet Platform integrates four critical functional modules, each of which is essential for R&D program management excellence:
1. Project Planning and Management,
2. Resource Budgeting and Forecasting,
