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Engineered a groundbreaking Digital Formulation Wizard for a Global Pharmaceutical Giant

  • 60%

    Reduction in manual data handling

  • 75%

    Increase in customer engagement

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About the Client and Project

The client is a global supplier of excipients for the pharmaceutical and nutritional industries. They help their clients finalize the formulation and coating requirements for solid oral dosages.

Unified Infotech was invited to partner with them and build upon their skeletal pre-existing module framework. The aim was to offer a smart dose formulation hub capable of breaking down the process into simple, easily understandable segments, making it easy for their pharmaceutical clients to develop the right compliant-ready dosage.

We played a pivotal role in automating and streamlining this process to accelerate product development. Facilitating easy authentication-based access to technical resources, real-time data, and expert support, enabled us to help our client deliver high-quality yet simple solutions to their pharmaceutical clients for quicker time-to-market.

Industry

Pharmaceutical

Project Duration

Underway
50+ months

Team Size

8 - 10

Client Location

United States

Engagement Model

Managed Team Model

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Background and Strategic Fit

When the project was handed over to Unified Infotech, it could perform only basic functions. Executing the functionalities required a colossal amount of human intervention. Hence, their clients experienced delays in formulating dosage and got frustrated with the unavailability of proper information. Since the pharmaceutical industry is governed by extensive local and global regulations, the lack of adequate information proved to be a deterrent. Consequently, our client experienced revenue loss resulting from user dissatisfaction and result inaccuracy.

  • There is an extensive need for core formulation and coating process automation
  • Intensive UI remodeling was required to make the module more engaging and aesthetically pleasing
  • Segregation of information was mandatory, considering the number of critical regulatory and compliance standards that needed to be met
  • Processes had numerous technicalities, some of which required immediate visualizations

The project was very niche and required a good understanding of the technicalities involved in the process. It was also important to align each visual element with the client’s vision and industry standards. The challenges involved made the project more interesting.

Services Offered

#1

Software Development

Achieved the perfect balance of aesthetics and functionality

#2

UI/UX Design

Aligned the aesthetics to meet industry standards and the client’s vision

#3

Testing & QA

Iterative testing to improve the functionalities and ensure accuracy

#4

GSR & 24 x 7 Support

Ensuring website operations 24/7 to cater to a global audience

Challenges

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Project Understanding and Insights

The project dealt with a highly technical aspect of a niche industry. Understanding its intricacies and ensuring individual process accuracy took a lot of time. Also, the design elements we selected and implemented presented challenges because the client wanted them to play a critical role in user engagement and information delivery. Hence, the entire discovery, planning, and design phases were lengthy, with several iterations involved due to the technical complexities involved. We had to understand every aspect of the process in detail before proceeding.

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Frequent Updations

The client wanted this web application to remain updated with the latest version of the tech stack we implemented. This entire module was built on Angular and Angular releases two upgrades every year. Since this module had certain third-party dependencies, there is always a risk of incompatibility with the latest upgrades. In such cases, we have to build the functionalities from scratch using core Angular materials for better sustainability and to remove these 3rd party dependencies.

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Real-time Visualization

The involved processes required dynamic visualizations. These visualizations or SVG images were generated dynamically based on the parameters provided by the users. The SVG image would change whenever someone changed the key parameters. This was another stimulating challenge that required innovation and creativity to overcome.

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Providing Multilingual Support

Catering to a global audience meant that we had to localize the language of the website. While building it in English meant it catered to a majority of global users, we still had to translate it into Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese so the client would not miss out on users from these important regions.

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Client Goals

The client wanted to rebuild the entire process, maintaining an easy flow of information and offering better user interactivity. Primarily, they wanted to:

  • Automate the entire process and limit manual intervention to improve process accuracy
  • Improve the placement and availability of information regarding the regulatory compliances to be followed when formulating oral doses
  • Segregate the regulatory and compliance information depending on the different types followed as standards in the pharmaceutical industry
  • Streamline the core formulation process and augment it with visual representations of the output
  • Elevate the process with the right visual representations regarding standard colors, active ingredient properties, etc.
  • Ensure the website was interactive with easy navigation, precise explanations of the steps involved, and simplification of the information that users needed to upload

Solutions Provided

Interacting with the client during the discovery and design stages helped us develop the relevant solutions to take the module building to completion. Key solutions provided include:

UI Improvement
  • Designed the main dashboard 
  • Used a lot of design elements like colors and icons to make the module more attractive
  • Integrated interactive elements to make it easy to navigate the critical processes involved
  • Designed a unique representation of the entire flow of this module 
  • Used real-time representations like scales and graphs to help visualize the end product
Dynamic Representations
  • Custom-developed all SVG visualizations to reflect changes in shape and size parameters immediately
  • Integrated codes that allow users to visualize the effect of any changes they make
  • Developed graphical representations of the different active ingredient properties
  • Developed reporting formats to make it easy for users to glance through their project details
Core Formulation Process Changes
  • Transformed the form into a series of interesting steps
  • Leveraged modern design elements to make the process easy to understand
  • Custom-designed the API flow property for increased accuracy
  • Implemented quick dropdowns to navigate between the API properties
Film Coating Process
  • Designed to be more visually interesting 
  • Users can select products and customize it
  • Presence of a color grid makes color selection easy
  • Generates a summary after request submission
Regulatory Compliances
  • Developed a user-friendly tool to check for local and global regulatory compliance
  • Segregated all the compliances based on their type, regional applicability, and criticality
  • Implemented in-line search to make it easy to zero in on the relevant compliance and regulatory requirement
Report Generation
  • Facilitated report generation for all individual processes
  • Made the submission report very interactive so that certain functions could be performed directly from there
  • Created a detailed report of all products offered by the client 

Key Functionalities

Module designed to prioritize client’s core expertise and comes with niche functionalities

Core Formulation Dashboard
  • Create a project
  • Regulatory and compliance
  • Preferred components
  • Dissolution 
  • Formulation
Coating Dashboard
  • Stability
  • Form, shape and size
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Preferred excipients
  • Color selection
Summary Report
  • Request sample
  • Dispersion preparation tool
  • Process parameters
  • Record issues
Formulation Report
  • Request sample
  • Record issues
  • Create new version
  • Add coating
Hyperstart API
API Properties
  • Solubility & flow
  • Compressibility
  • Stability 

Technology Stack

  • PM Tool: Used for Agile project management, task tracking, and workflow customization
  • Frontend: Tools that allow internationalized and accessible UI components
  • Web App Framework: Open-source TypeScript-based web application framework for scalability and performance optimization
  • Version Control Systems: GIT-based source code repository hosting service for team collaboration and better code management
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Results

Redesigning the cumbersome, non-interactive module to make it more interactive, engaging, visually appealing, and functionally exceptional resulted in creating outstanding value for both the client and its users.

  • Acceleration of formulation timelines through process automation, resulting in quicker time-to-market
  • Increased process efficiency and accuracy due to a reduction in manual data handling
  • User-friendly design led to an increase in its adoption rates 
  • Multi-lingual approach helped the client enable conversions across the world
  • Increase in client website popularity, resulting in higher sales revenue generation

60 %

Reduction in manual data handling

75 %

Increase in customer engagement

Result
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They are a prime example of excellence in professionalism. We started with a small project few years back, and now they are our digital transformation partners. Unified has been instrumental and critical scaling our business significantly. Their team is incredibly strong and adaptable. Kudos to the team—keep up the fantastic work!

Rich Bricker

COO
Luxury Lease Partners

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Unified Infotech has been our trusted technology partner for the past four years, seamlessly integrating as an extension of our team. Throughout this period, they have consistently delivered high-quality solutions that have significantly enhanced and innovated our business operations. Their unwavering commitment and proactive approach have been particularly impressive, demonstrating their dedication to our success.

Dan Milczarski

CTO
CQ Fluency

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