(Weymouth, MA) February 15, 2005… The pharmaceutical industry continually ranks high on the list of the most profitable businesses in the United States. The most recent Fortune 500 survey identifies the pharmaceutical industry as the third most profitable U.S. industry.  Significant opportunities exist within this industry for organizations involved in serving digital document and dynamic content management needs.

InfoTrends/CAP Ventures’ new white paper entitled Pharmaceutical and Medicine Industry: The Document Services Opportunity provides an overview of this industry, discusses the scope and size of the industry, analyzes key trends and issues, reviews applications for digital and electronic management and delivery of business-critical information, and supplies industry resources that provide information for developing sales and marketing strategies.

“Electronic content and document storage and distribution, print on demand, secure document management and transmission, and communications are core to the document needs of the pharmaceutical industry,” commented Holly Muscolino, a Director at InfoTrends/CAP Ventures. “Our report provides a roadmap by outlining opportunities in this thriving market and articulating solutions for business problems against which these services can be applied.”

The pharmaceutical industry presents a broad spectrum of opportunities for content and document management providers, including:

• Document and content creation
• Data capture and manipulation
• Document communication and transmission
• Document and content storage
• Document workflow and content management
• Information security
• Repeated printing of documents such as forms and transaction documents
• Document and content revision and modification
• Varying levels of customization, personalization, and nationalization/localization

Processes, products, services, and support that help pharmaceutical companies improve margins; contain costs; optimize internal efficiencies; create differentiation; streamline communications; better manage, analyze, and disseminate data and information; and respond to opportunities presented in a dynamic global marketplace will be in demand.

InfoTrends/CAP Ventures’ white paper is available immediately to clients of the North American Dynamic Content Software Strategies, North American On Demand Printing & Publishing, European On Demand Printing & Publishing, and North American Production Workflow Solutions Services. For more information about the report or to make a purchase, please contact Alison Hipp at (781) 616-2100, ext. 126 or alison_hipp@infotrends.com.