Client and Member Benefits:
End
User Clients and Members - Consulting clients and End User Members receive early access
to software and knowledge products, enabling you to accelerate
your selection and implementation of software applications and infrastructures. You
leverage the investments and benefits, and reduce the risks
of selecting and applying electronic notebooks,
electronic records, and related systems for
R&D and manufacturing informatics and knowledge management. End Users receive "intelligent
helping hands" from CENSA staff and colleagues to
develop in-house systems.
End Users benefit from our experiences and
proven methodologies to apply new systems in
R&D and manufacturing environments. Our collaborative
development work has produced tools and enabling technologies proven useful to many companies throughout the world.
End Users also receive early access
to state-of-the-art and "generation-after-next" technologies,
legal
and regulatory knowledge, specifications, strategies, implementation practices, and guides.
Our experts and trainers in technology, law, and quality assurance will help you understand best practices throughout industry.
Our focus area is software to facilitate R&D and manufacturing knowledge management and informatics. We have the deepest expertise available on general-purpose Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems (CENS), and specialized systems for laboratories (Electronic Laboratory Notebooks or "ELN"). We also have decades of experience specifying and applying electronic records management and archiving systems, LIMS, systems integration tools, and infrastructure to tie all of these systems together.
Supplier
Clients and Members - Suppliers benefit from the expertise developed over many years of interaction with End Users and Supplier Members. The CENSA deliverables provided in consulting engagements give vendors the core of knowledge to help accelerate product development and sales goals.
During collaborative product development projects, suppliers get access to a committed and ready customer base. We help suppliers connect and accelerate
progress with leaders and decision makers in buyer (end user) organizations.
At special meetings of association members, Supplier Members are given major opportunities
to present technical and marketing proposals to the End User Members
in response to their requirements.
We also offer the high-demand tactical and strategic marketing opportunities
typical of many trade associations.
Consult the Supplier
Membership Invitation Kit for details.
Legal
Firms - Legal Firm Members get early access to results
of huge investments made by industry to better understand and pre-emptively
shape the legal process they get involved in when electronic records
are key evidence. They can better address the legal challenges that
face their clients when with moving to electronic recordkeeping and
digital archiving systems. By being more informed than other
legal firms, CENSA's Legal Firm Members can better advise their clients
on how to properly setup, operate, validate, and defend against legal
challenges of all kinds, including intellectual property protection,
regulatory compliance, civil, class action, criminal, product liability,
electronic commerce, or others where evidence includes electronic
records and data. CENSA's Legal Firm Members are better armed to provide
litigation against opponents of any kind, because they learn the nuances
and specifics sooner than their competition, help to create new and
better legal practices, and interpret the laws and regulations more
intelligently. In short they are better attorneys as a result of their
membership in CENSA.
Government
Members - Government Members get early access to
results of huge investments made by industry to address the internal
challenges that they are facing with moving to electronic recordkeeping
and digital archiving systems. Government Agencies and National
Laboratories who actively participate in the authoring and review
of the Legal and Regulatory Program Deliverables receive them for
use to improve internal operations.
Regulatory
Agencies are frequently so large that they face
much greater challenges than industry when dealing with electronic
records and data. Yet, regulatory agencies typically neither
have the charter or the time to innovate and create new problem-solving
technologies like industry does, their primary task is to regulate
industry.
CENSA's Regulatory Agency interactions are
primarily to collaboratively develop specifications and guides for
policies, procedures, training and operation of electronic records
management and archival system. This knowledge, by design, is
being created to help them remain more aware of and immune to the
increasing risks that ever-changing technologies impose on the integrity
of records.
National
Laboratories are well-funded to perform basic and
advanced research, which they do very well. Yet, at least in
the Western world, National Labs typically are not charged with commercialization
of such research, because of the potential conflicts from competing
directly with industry at its own game. Thus, their processes
for commercialization are not as well-developed as they could be.
Experience has shown that many National Laboratories have difficulty
successfully commercializing their R&D work. CENSA's
technology transfer objectives are to help identify good partners
for successful commercialization activities.
Through its member organizations and clients working together to solve hard problems, CENSA's accelerates innovation and market development through its market research, product development, and product adoption programs.
By leveraging the talents of participants, CENSA creates synergy, develops new knowledge, and accelerates
knowledge transfer among its participants.
We helpl participating organizations be
more successful in this world of dizzying change.
