other Timaeus benefits

"The history of technology has shown you can only modify and improve a technology so much. If you really want to leap forward, you need to start again and invent a new technology."

Timaeus was designed without legacy after the dot-com era. In other words, Cmed had no legacy investment in any Clinical Data Management System (CDMS), e-diary or similar system to protect. Nor did Cmed jump on the web bandwagon of the dot-com era and rush to develop a system better suited for online shopping — believing that there is no point in having sophisticated, powerful technology if it is unreliable, unable to scale without 'super server' power or is too slow or too complex for inexperienced clinical site end users.

Instead, with experienced management from large pharmaceutical companies with a thorough practical understanding of clinical research, global clinical data management and the demands on Investigator sites, allied to cutting-edge software engineers originating from Oxford University in the UK, Cmed spent 18 months carefully thinking and planning through requirements, and building and evaluating prototypes.

This shows in every aspect of Timaeus. The result is a carefully designed and engineered system that from top to bottom is "fit for purpose".

This means that Timaeus is fit to conduct clinical data management and clinical data capture, and fit to work in the world of "big Pharma" where vast scale and dependability are prerequisites. Other benefits of Timaeus include:

• Scaleable, flexible architecture designed to support distributed data capture in real life clinics.
• Robust design
• No need for database administrators
• Freedom from other licensing costs
• Real-time data streaming, e.g. into relational data warehouses and for integration with other data sources/systems