How A Biotech Startup Company Increased Flexibility and Efficiency by Switching to Phoenix Cloud

A large part of the research and development for this company is carried out in collaboration with contract research laboratories. It controls the outsourced research, such as some of the population-based kinetics. To do this, the researchers rely on Phoenix software. The startup’s scientists have worked with Phoenix in the past at other companies and know the software as the de facto standard in pharmacokinetic /pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) analysis. The challenge in using Phoenix was the fact that the company has an IT policy to use only Mac computers.

First, IT looked at options where Phoenix could have been used in virtual environments. Primarily due to safety concerns, this approach was discarded. When the stakeholders learned about Phoenix Cloud and how it is a convenient and secure way to run the program on Mac machines, they decided to implement this solution.

The main advantage of Phoenix Cloud for this company is that the cloud-based variant allows the team to use the software where it was not possible with the company’s actual technical infrastructure. Scientists have found that the performance in Phoenix Cloud is significantly better than in the desktop variant. And features like the job management system for remote processing of workflow objects will save scientists a lot of time in the future allowing them to focus on other tasks to accelerate the development of treatments against cancer.