Bracket, a clinical trial technology and specialty services provider, launched a cloud-based service for SmartSupplies, its clinical trial inventory management software suite. This launch marks the first hosted solution of SmartSupplies since Bracket's acquisition of CLINapps in 2016 and is applicable to all modules of the SmartSupplies suite.

SmartSupplies, an enterprise clinical trial material management software solution, provides end-to-end clinical inventory management for sponsors. The release of the cloud-based offering will enable companies without their own IT infrastructure and servers to easily and securely run and manage the application. Built atop Oracle Cloud Services, the cloud-hosted solution will facilitate enhanced integration with other eClinical systems as well as allow end users and clinical research associates (CRAs) to share data seamlessly and instantaneously without geographic constraints.

"We are pleased to introduce a cloud-based hosting option for SmartSupplies to our existing and new customers," said Jeff Kinell, CEO of Bracket. "The benefits of cloud hosting continue to present themselves, especially as clinical trials worldwide rely more on immediate collaboration across sites."

Bracket's hosted SmartSupplies solution is competitively priced and provides a cost-effective alternative for sponsor companies deploying the enterprise solution. This cloud-based option allows sponsors to eliminate in-house hardware maintenance and management for a reduced IT footprint. Other advantages include:

• Reducing outsourced hosting, off-shore contractors and vendors for decreased third-party costs;
• Enabling proactive support and system health-checks from Bracket's support team;
• Facilitating better integration with other eClinical systems and collaboration across sites; and
• Ensuring a well-maintained regulatory environment and robust business continuity.

The transition of SmartSupplies to the cloud is seamless for existing customers, causing no disruption to the end user.

"Offering customers the option of cloud hosting for SmartSupplies was born out of necessity," said Kinell. "We want sponsors to focus their energy and efforts on running clinical trials, not on managing their IT infrastructure—and hosting SmartSupplies in the cloud will alleviate that burden."