Quintiles has received the prestigious 2013 Informatica Innovation Award for "Enterprise Data Integration" in recognition of its efforts through the Quintiles Infosario solution. The Infosario platform helps to integrate and master both clinical research and healthcare data across numerous institutions and at a larger scale than before.

Quintiles Infosario seamlessly integrates data, systems, processes and Quintiles' therapeutic expertise to unlock faster, better-informed decisions from clinical trial planning and design to trial execution services, through post-market outcome studies. It uniquely allows for scientific and operational design to inform and optimize operations based on real-time alerts and data insights, mitigating risk, while improving patient safety, productivity and time to market.

The Informatica Innovation Awards honors organizations that have demonstrated leadership through the application of Informatica technologies that yielded significant business results. Out of more than 5,000 companies and organizations, winners in 12 categories were announced at the annual Informatica user conference, Informatica World 2013.

"We are honored to have Quintiles Infosario recognized as one of the world's leading data integration solutions," said Quintiles Chief Information Officer Richard Thomas.

"At the core of Quintiles Infosario is our data factory which integrates a wide variety of clinical, healthcare and operational data across a significant number of sources ranging from pharmaceutical companies to hospital and care provider networks. Being able to combine this data and add context / meaning results in highly actionable analytics which our customers really appreciate" Thomas concluded.