|Articles|December 12, 2017

PAREXEL Launches Perceptive® Cloud in Alliance with Microsoft Corp

With the announcement of Parexel's recent alliance with Microsoft Corp in which you can read here, they have now introduced the Perceptive Cloud to the life sciences industry. The Perceptive cloud, which is the first milestone of this partnership, will combine Parexel's expertise along with Microsoft's cloud services in order to deliver cost effective innovations all while securing sensitive information globally.

Read the full release here.

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