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NNIT breakthrough in the European pharma industry

NNIT has entered into contracts totalling an amount in the double-digit million Euro range with European pharma firms within the first six months of 2008. NNIT beats several IT giants to win the contracts, due primarily to NNIT’s experience delivering solutions to the highly regulated pharma industry. Recent contracts have been concluded with Nycomed and Solvay Pharmaceuticals.

NNIT’s focus on international pharma companies has now begun to pay off. The IT consultancy has won two new contracts with Nycomed and Solvay Pharmaceuticals in fierce competition with global IT companies.

“The new agreements confirm that our capabilities are now at a level that makes us competitive at an international level,” says Per Kogut, NNIT’s CEO.

The contract with Solvay Pharmaceuticals is an outsourcing agreement on operations and maintenance of their document management system used for drug submissions to health authorities for example. For Nycomed, it’s about the development and implementation of a new clinical data warehouse that will help Nycomed to maximise the value of clinical data in Nycomed’s R&D operating model.

The new agreements have come through NNIT’s Swiss office. The office has been on the growth path in the past two years and is expected to expand significantly in the coming years. René Vernon, NNIT’s Vice President for pharma sales and head of the Zurich office thinks that a Danish IT firm needs to be extremely persistent to succeed in the European pharma industry. Accumulating the necessary trust in the market requires a long-term effort to show reliability as a supplier and, at the same time, build relationships in the sector.

“Over the last four years in Switzerland we have delivered some smaller projects to the European pharma industry. Through those, we gradually qualified ourselves for larger assignments, resulting now in these contracts with Nycomed and Solvay Pharmaceuticals,” says René Vernon.

The contracts will be fulfilled with resources from both Denmark and Switzerland.

For further information:
Per Kogut: +45 3075 3500
René Vernon: +41 79 799 1466