Stacy Hardie, Associate Director, Content Partners, Veeva Europe, outlines Veeva’s timeline for migrating clients from Zinc to Vault PromoMats, along with key elements of the upgrade and support for users.

Recorded 4 July 2018 at a MedComms Networking event in Oxford. Produced by NetworkPharma.tv

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ABSTRACT:

For many years, the pharmaceutical industry has been using Zinc content management software to streamline its compliance management and reduce regulatory risk in the process of approval and sign-off of marketing, education and communication materials. Veeva Systems Inc. acquired Zinc in September 2015 and is at a tipping point in the process of migrating its Zinc MAPS customers to Vault PromoMats: 50% of its Zinc customers have now migrated or have confirmed plans to do so.

Veeva supplies the entire range of life sciences industry with its cloud systems for clinical trials through to regulatory services, quality and manufacturing, medical affairs, field force, and marketing and sales divisions. Vault PromoMats and Vault MedComms are the two products that will most impact the medical communications sector. They are being configured using the language of the Zinc platform to help ease the transition – but nevertheless represent a considerable transformation that will – among other things – streamline the audit trail, increase the robustness of the approval process and include anchoring for references to enable easier and more accurate re-use. The net effect should be to increase the global visibility of content approval and distribution and enhance the throughput of fully referenced materials from pharma HQ to the regions.

With over 5000 agency users, buy-in from agencies is key to PromoMats’ successful rollout, and Veeva is offering a suite of training and support packages to ease the process, including an agency certification programme.

Useful sources of further information:

Veeva and U – Vault PromoMats Innovation Hub – monthly webinars are posted here along with the registration links at https://www.veeva.com/eu/commercial-hub/vault-promomats/

Vault Online Help – here you will find a dedicated Zinc Migrations Tab which includes a number of How to Videos as well as a Terminology Glossary and Transition Guide at http://vaulthelp2.vod309.com/wordpress/zinc-migration/

Veeva LinkedIn Community Groups:

– Promotional Compliance Group at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/5182086
– DAM Life Sciences Community at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13603551

Written by Penny Gray, Freelance Medical Writer

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Full details of this MedComms Networking event are at http://www.medcommsnetworking.com/event_040718.html

Stacy’s presentation (PDF format) is at http://www.medcommsnetworking.com/presentations/hardie_040718.pdf

Stacy’s Linkedin page is at https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacy-hardie-73b10714/

More about Veeva can be found at http://www.veeva.com

Filming and technical direction by Mario Crispino, Freelance Cameraman & Editor

Editorial support by Penny Gray, Freelance Medical Writer

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