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Trinity Life Sciences has been providing large pharmaceutical companies with deep, comparative intelligence for many years and discovered that they all seemed to struggle with finding good vendors experienced with the pharmaceutical industry. Trinity wanted to help them and the smaller emerging pharmaceutical companies solve the problem.

Trinity decided to partner with Fynydd to build an online subscription service where pharmaceutical company employees could review the vendors they use, rate products and services, and see how vendors and services compare within their organization, and across the globe. Likewise, vendors needed to be able to create and manage a profile for their companies, including their products and services.

We collaborated with Trinity to define the needs of their potential subscribers, vendors, and staff. Then we worked on defining the user experience for the key users of the platform. After defining the user experience, we worked on the technical strategy. Based on the platforms and services that Trinity used internally, as well as the needs of the new platform, we decided to implement a custom ASP.NET MVC application with a SQL Server database.

We integrated Salesforce.com to keep a master copy of the data set, allowing subscribers to authenticate using that platform. Vendors authenticate directly with the system. And we built the client side with a responsive framework including SCSS and infinite scroll search results. All of this was hosted in our secure Amazon AWS environment.

Some of the key features of the platform include:

• Provided pharmaceutical advisor customers with a way to find reliable vendors
  Subscription service (SaaS) for clients and vendors
• Based on ASP.NET MVC hosted on Amazon Web Services
• Microsoft SQL Server database
• Responsive HTML5 with SCSS
• Salesforce integration
• Transactional email service
• Profitable business in under 18 months
• Driving its own budget for growth

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