ClearTrial, a Chicago-based Clinical Trial Operations software company, has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the "Cool Vendors in Life Sciences, 2011"report by Gartner. Gartner’s vice president Steven Lefebure and Gartner managing vice president Dale Hagemeyer explore key challenges faced by life sciences companies and discuss ClearTrial’s solutions for planning, forecasting, and tracking of clinical projects and financial performance. 

Gartner’s list includes other technology companies in the life sciences that they define as innovative, impactful and intriguing.  Companies that were also named “Cool Vendors” include Boston-based Cambridge Semantics, Cleveland-based Explorys and Quantum Leap Innovations based in Delaware.