Phoenix^® Connect^™

The strategic Phoenix component connecting Phoenix workflows and external programs

Phoenix Connect is an application that provides the connection between Phoenix workflows and various external applications.

• For Pharmacometricians, it supports connectivity to NONMEM, R, SAS,
  S-Plus, SigmaPlot and PsN.
• For study data access and management, it provides access to the Pharsight Knowledgebase Server (PKS), Certara's 21 CFR Part 11 compliant repository as well as the online version PKS Online.   
  Phoenix Connect can import OBDC data sources,  and supports import and export of CDISC data formats.  
• The Reporter object in Phoenix Connect allows every scientist to transfer TLFs created by any Phoenix object into a Word report, and to add context sensitive, auto-numbered captions and footnotes to each TLF - significantly reducing the time to create and to maintain reports.

Phoenix Connect provides access to necessary analysis tools for pharmacometricians.  It allows a user to easily replicate or modify an existing analysis workflow.  All the work done with external programs is saved under a single Phoenix project file that can be shared, rerun, changed, and even saved as part of a workflow template that can be reused later with other datasets.

Phoenix Connect can operate independently as a single standalone application or in concert with other Phoenix products (e.g., Phoenix WinNonlin or Phoenix NLME).

The Phoenix Connect framework for the 3rd party tools provides a powerful Pharmacometrics modeling platform, where the analysis can be executed remotely via a separately-licensed Remote Processing Server (RPS). In connection with PKS, users will have real-time, shared access to up-to-date data sources, with access to all necessary analysis tools and existing computing resources (grids/clusters).

With this platform, users can easily replicate or modify an existing analysis workflow, can graphically illustrate the hierarchy of model development and have access to a global library for sharing all models and outputs. Finally, the Reporter module creates a report with all tables, graphs, and listings - literally with the push of a button. Phoenix Connect's seamless integration with PKS provides support for 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, and offers an audit trail and version control of pharmacometric analyses.

Key Benefits

• Workflow objects for NONMEM®, PsN, R®, SAS®, S-Plus®, and SigmaPlot® operate as shells that allow users to import and map data, set the location of external executables, import and map scripts, import controls, select output folders, execute external commands, and graph or plot the results.
• Capability to select desired development environments to edit and develop scripts for 3rd party tools.
• Support via shortcuts for files that are too large to be imported and stored within a Phoenix project.
• Access to any row-oriented data source that has a Microsoft® Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver accessed via the latest version of ODBC API.
• Tools that enable PK/PD data sharing with collaborators and regulators using the CDISC SDTM standard import & export capabilities.
• Table and data management module that provides a quick and easy way to tabulate data while allowing the flexibility to edit it in Microsoft® Excel.
• Graphics module that produces high-quality outputs for faster, integrated communication of results.
• Reporter module allows the automated transfer of user-specified TLFs into a Word report and the addition of context-sensitive, auto-numbered captions and footnotes.
• Capability to create a template from a full or partial workflow (i.e. the collection of linked analysis steps) for later use to analyze other datasets.
• Provides seamless connectivity to the Pharsight Knowledgebase Server database.
• Capability to execute most Connect objects remotely in any platform that supports Java, using the new Remote Processing Server (licensed separately).