Why Should You Go with a Niche Provider Over a Full-Service CRO?

When you reach a critical point in your research, you are often faced with the dilemma of how you should proceed into the trial stage: using specialty partners or a full-service organization. Here at Datatrial, many of our customers have used both approaches—and our 95-percent customer return rate suggests they prefer our model. To get a better idea of how our boutique data management organization can help you achieve study success, here are just a few of the ways we differentiate ourselves from the full-service model.

1. We emphasize efficiency and remove overhead to maximize your study budget.
Our boutique approach allows us to offer your group a full-service study proposal that is less costly than one you would receive from a larger CRO. That’s because we team with the right clinical partners to eliminate the overhead charges that are common to full-service CROs, while incorporating design efficiencies that help your budget go further. Because we are well-versed and adept in using those efficiencies, we’re uniquely positioned to flourish—even in challenging economic environments.

2. Teaming with specialty partners helps us to reduce your time to study startup.
By allowing each of our vendors to focus on their niche area, your trial reaps the rewards of having an expertly sourced team to handle each aspect of your clinical program. We seamlessly blend each of these vendors into a cohesive team, which gives us the capability of moving faster and more nimbly than larger organizations that can get bogged down.

3. Our flexibility and configurable solutions allow us to easily adapt to your needs.
We eschew the one-size-fits-all mantra espoused by many larger companies, favoring a configurable approach that makes us nimble and agile enough to design your study so that your needs and preferences are met. Our a la carte philosophy ensures that you receive only the services that make sense for your program—not ours. In addition, our easy-to-use nowEDC software works your way, giving you a host of options for batch sign-off on tasks, adding unscheduled visits, and modifying the locking and freezing of data to match your SOPs, among other variables. This flexibility also allows us to easily make in-study changes, making us a natural fit for adaptive studies.

4. As an extension of your team, we offer the service your study needs and deserves.
Of all of our unique differentiators, the one that is most important to us is our personal, responsive service. Through our 95-percent repeat business rate and customer satisfaction conversations, our customers have told us that the level of attention we provide is something they have not gotten from larger companies, and they value the consistency of working with the same team for all of their studies, instead of the revolving door of names and faces that is often the case with bigger organizations. Your trial is as important to us as it is to you, which is why we work hard from day one to serve as a virtual extension of your team and ensure that our processes align with yours in the pursuit of trial success.

5. Using strong partnerships, we eliminate your stress about vendor management.
We forge close relationships with our specialty partners in an effort to provide you with a better overall solution for your upcoming trial. Because we can call on our extensive background in coordinating projects with our partners, that is one less task to put on your already-full plate. After all, we recognize that you have more important things to worry about than managing your partners.