Vanguard System™ Is Topic of
Workshop at 2007 Portfolio Management Conference
Senior Executives in Life Sciences Industry Learn
How the Vanguard System™ Supports Portfolio
Analysis
Cary, NC – November 29, 2007 – Michael
Kubica, President and Senior Scientist at Applied
Quantitative Sciences, delivered a workshop entitled
“Alignment of Portfolio Analysis Tools and Portfolio
Management Process Maturity: Are We There Yet?”
during a Breakfast Technology Workshop sponsored by
Vanguard Software at the 2007 Portfolio Management
conference in Philadelphia, PA. The workshop drew a crowd
of nearly 100 attendees and focused on the application of
Vanguard’s innovative portfolio analysis tool, the
Vanguard System™. Applied Quantitative Sciences
works with major life sciences companies and is a valued
customer of Vanguard Software, adopting the Vanguard
System as its core modeling and simulation solution.
“At AQS we have leveraged the features of
Vanguard Software to assist our client organizations
evolve from management of many asynchronous business
models to a more integrated and coherent enterprise
forecasting and modeling system. This was an excellent
forum for sharing our experiences,” said Michael
Kubica, President of Applied Quantitative Sciences.
“The Vanguard System is an enabling technology that
removes significant barriers to establishing an
enterprise business modeling system. The quality of their
products and the caliber of service is the best I’ve
experienced.”
“Michael’s workshop was very informative and
addressed some of the ongoing franchise management issues
within pharma,” said Christian Ahlmark, Vice
President of Business Development at Vanguard.
“Applied Quantitative Sciences has been a great
customer to work with. Their industry expertise combined
with their outstanding modeling and simulation
development capabilities add tremendous value to our
software customers.”
The following is the abstract from Mr. Kubica’s
Breakfast Technology Workshop:
As the portfolio of inline products, research and
development projects and licensing and acquisition
opportunities grow, companies of all sizes are challenged
with identifying the best tools and methods to understand
and maximize portfolio value. In working with clients
within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical
devices, Applied Quantitative Sciences has learned much
about the evolution of portfolio management process
maturity and about the specific requirements of
analytical tools to facilitate progression along this
continuum. Michael Kubica, President of Applied
Quantitative Sciences, Inc. will describe these
learning's and how they have been applied in the context
of developing flexible, scalable solutions for their
clients.
- The evolution of portfolio analysis and
management process maturity
- Software requirements in the context of a dynamic
evolution toward portfolio analysis and
management process maturity
- The growing need for scalability and flexibility
- How can we get there today?
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About Vanguard Software
Vanguard Software is a privately held corporation founded in
1995 to develop business Decision Support software. Customers in
over 60 countries and in every major industry use Vanguard’s
software for forecasting, resource optimization, Web-based expert
systems, and financial modeling. For more information about
Vanguard, visit http://www.vanguardsw.com/.
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