In today’s life sciences environment, growing revenue and market share are a priority. Organizations specializing in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical products and technology, and medical devices are experiencing unprecedented and unrelenting change. The regulations, pricing pressures, market and public expectations, and competition have become more challenging and complex.

The Virtual Data Room for Life Sciences. Redefined.

RR Donnelley’s virtual data room, VENUE, is uniquely positioned to help your organization establish and launch clinical trials sooner, expand market share, and increase revenue by accelerating the due diligence process associated with partnering, business development, and technology licensing. Partnerships and business development require the distribution and review of sensitive documents with third parties. Technology licensing involves supplying and examining proprietary documents with potential licensees and bidders.

VENUE offers secure online document storage for a variety of users and its robust features translate into concrete benefits for your life sciences business:

• Accelerate and track the due diligence process
• Decrease clinical trial start-up times and bring products to market faster
• Create a single repository for study details
• Provide a means for adverse affects to be quickly and confidentially reported
• Improve how safety documents are communicated and distributed to study sites
• Track completion of documents and tasks
• Maintain fully auditable records
• Cast a broader net early in your business development process to reach more partners
• Share details about research and drug development with venture capitalists, private investors and others interested in funding your work while limiting access to sensitive information
• Use audit trails to track workspace activity, allowing your executives to focus on those parties most interested in the research
• Secure your documents online with extensive security in all levels of the workspace
• Protect your intellectual property with advanced document protection capabilities

For over 140 years, we have provided innovative solutions to streamline your processes. VENUE is backed by our world-class service platform and global footprint, further enhancing our ability to seamlessly manage your critical business communications.

Save Time and Money

• Establish one place of record for sensitive documents
• Eliminate document version confusion
• Streamline document access and retrieval with Venue’s powerful search tool
• Fully redundant infrastructure ensures full disaster recovery of documents so your team can get back to work quickly
• Reduce costs and security risks associated with e-mail and expedited mail

Speed the Process

• Easily disseminate information worldwide, 24/7
• Eliminate delays associated with travel and mail
• Minimize administrative tasks
• Ability to scan and upload documents

Strengthen Control

• A central file repository ensures full document control
• Generate user-access reports to monitor document usage
• Immediately add/delete/modify user access based on changing project requirements how often

RR Donnelley Venues is SAS 70 Type II certified.
Venue: where virtual business happens

RR Donnelley Venue provides all of the critical features you need in a virtual data room and is backed by our expertise and 140-year reputation.

Security
Security is the foundation of RR Donnelley Venue — from technical infrastructure and application security to the physical security of our facilities.

• Fully-redundant servers are geographically dispersed and housed in SAS 70 compliant facilities
• User-access rights controlled at the project, folder and document levels
• PDF security, watermarking, document encryption, and system audits ensure critical document safety
• Scanning facilities and service centers are closely monitored to protect all sensitive client information

Control
Once your VDR is provisioned, you control what it contains and who can see it.

• Easily upload documents, add team members, create groups, send alerts, and view reports
• Define specific user roles down to the document level
• Easily generate insightful usage reports

Ease of Use
Venue’s user interface is intuitive and emulates how you already work.

• The document library system mirrors the Windows^® file/folder design, making navigation easy
• Quickly auto-create a project index from Excel^®
• Upload multiple documents without additional software

Collaboration and Communication
Innovative collaboration tools can be customized by project type.

• Integration with MS Office® enables direct-from-desktop document access
• Discussion threads and announcements facilitate team communications
• Maintain document accuracy with the version history tracking and recycle bin recovery feature

Service
Clients are assigned a dedicated service and support team. Our VDR professionals understand your unique project needs and work to ensure the success of your project.

• 24/7/365 global service and support for any party involved in your project
• A dedicated project manager is assigned as your primary contact to coordinate the uploading and scanning of all project documents
• Global scanning network with broad reach and deep expertise in document management
• Powerful yet easy to use, Venue is the place to go for streamlining deal making, compliance, and collaborative business communications. All with the same security, reliability, and premier global service platform that characterize RR Donnelley’s 140-year reputation.

For More Information
To learn more about RR Donnelley Venue, we invite you to contact your sales representative today or visit www.rrdvenue.com.