ThoughtSphere: Facilitating Clinical Trials for Pharmaceuticals and CROs

“By far, ThoughtSphere SaaS platform is the only product in the market which is ticking more boxes in terms of functionality and capability compared to other vendors.” This testimonial from one of ThoughtSphere’s clients describes the kind of solutions the company delivers to its customers for bringing new drugs to the market. These products enable Data- Driven Applications focused on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of life sciences R&D organizations. Founded in 2015, ThoughtSphere helps large and small pharma companies and contract research organizations (CROs) to decrease the drugs’ clinical development lifecycle by leveraging machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and data science. The company has developed a myriad of platforms—ClinDAP, ClinACT, DMSphere, and SPACE—along with a Business Intelligence (BI) tool to provide a holistic 360-degree view of clinical research data to aid the decision-making process in near real time. “Technology itself cannot solve all the challenges that arise in the pharma industry; it can only act as an enabler to do the same, and we have developed our offerings around that fact. They are designed to be flexible and accommodate all the disparate processes during drug R&D processes,” says Sudeep Pattnaik, the founder and CEO of ThoughtSphere.

All the ThoughtSphere’s platforms work based on their inbuilt algorithms to interpret the unstructured, semi-structured or structured data and amalgamate them. To do so, the company has designed their data platform ‘ClinDAP’ that accommodates the volume, veracity, and velocity of the data for drug R&D by using machine learning and deep learning algorithms. ThoughtSphere has also built an oversight analytics platform—ClinACT— to monitor and manage drug R&D risks. This platform provides quality insight into the drug development studies along with monitoring and managing the risks associated with drug clinical trials. Additionally, ClinACT’s eager learning and fuzzy distance algorithms enable the platform to learn from every drug research it has been used for and apply its knowledge to newer studies in similar therapeutic areas, based on the prior learning experience.

ThoughtSphere also offers a life science R&D financial lifecycle management platform— SPACE—that performs budget planning and automates payment cycles for clinical trials along with the agreement execution between pharma companies and sites/investigators.