CRIX International Delivers Regulatory Submission Services via Collaborative Agreement with Liquent, Inc.

Liquent, Inc. and CRIX International Team Up to Offer Life Sciences Industry Regulatory Submissions Services

Philadelphia, PA and Reston, VA, June 24, 2008 -  Liquent, a Scientific business of Thomson Reuters, and the CRIX International Association are pleased to announce a collaborative agreement where Liquent will use CRIX International’s first service offering from its platform, MyTeams, to collaborate and share documents with their clients.  For organizations looking to submit reports and submissions to the world’s regulatory authorities, Liquent Direct™ services can now be offered. Liquent Direct is Liquent’s market-leading regulatory publishing outsourcing service. The Liquent Direct team has produced hundreds of submissions and reports for companies of all sizes and uses Liquent InSight® Publisher as their core technology. MyTeams will soon serve as the foundation for document exchange and submissions between CRIX clients and the Liquent Direct team.

“By teaming up with CRIX International, Liquent will be able to derive the full value of  CRIX’s MyTeams while offering CRIX’s clients a full range of regulatory services, technology, and expertise,” said Rick Riegel, Vice President and General Manager of Liquent. “We’re very excited to work closely with an organization as innovative as CRIX International and believe that Liquent will bring outstanding added value to their collaborative platform and clients.”

“We are very pleased to have Liquent join CRIX  and use the MyTeams service, ” said Jim Bland, Executive Director of CRIX International. “ “The addition of Liquent services to the CRIX platform will contribute positively to our overall mission of accelerating interactions in the clinical research community.”

CRIX and Liquent look forward to extending this agreement to customize MyTeams spaces with Liquent’s SmartScribe document template package  for authoring submissions documents for regulatory submissions teams. Liquent and CRIX have also begun to explore offering Liquent Insight Manager and InSight Publisher through the CRIX Collaborative Platform. Insight Manager and Publisher will be offered on a subscription basis for use by CRIX subscribers and can be coupled with Liquent’s industry-leading professional services to complete submissions for clients directly on the CRIX platform.

About Liquent regulatory solutions
Liquent regulatory solutions provides software and related 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. Over the last 14 years, thousands of regulatory submissions have been produced using Liquent world-class products and expert services. For more information, go to http://www.liquent.com .

About The Thomson Reuters
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