no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . may 2016 medidata solutions type public traded as nasdaq mdso industry clinical development technology computer software software as a service founded new york usa 1999 founder glen de vries edward ikeguchi md tarek sherif headquarters 350 hudson street new york ny united states area served worldwide key people tarek sherif ceo tarek sherif chairman glen de vries president products medidata insights medidata designer medidata grants manager medidata cro contractor medidata ctms medidata balance medidata rave medidata patient cloud medidata tsdv medidata sqm medidata rave safety gateway medidata coder imedidata revenue 392.5 million 2015 1 number of employees 1 300 december 31 2015 website mdsol.com medidata solutions is an american based global saas technology company that specializes in developing and marketing a cloud based platform of applications and data analytics to address operations throughout clinical trials . the medidata clinical cloud platform is designed to improve clinical study design and planning through execution management and reporting . specific technology areas include protocol development clinical site collaboration and management randomization and trial supply management capturing patient data through web forms mobile health mhealth devices laboratory reports and imaging systems quality monitor management safety event capture and business analytics . headquartered in new york new york medidata employs 1500 people worldwide as of 2016 . medidata solutions has a total of 11 offices with locations in the united states the uk japan china south korea and singapore . medidata s customers include pharmaceutical biotechnology medical device and diagnostic companies academic and government institutions contract research organizations cros and other life sciences organizations around the world that develop and bring medical therapies and products to market . the medidata platform has been used by more than 600 customers around the world supporting more than 10 000 clinical studies 370 000 investigational sites and more than 2.7 million trial volunteers . contents 1 corporate history 2 innovation timeline 3 industry recognition 4 external links 5 references corporate history edit company founded in june 1999 . 3 acquires fast track systems in march 2008 . 4 5 6 initial public offering ipo on nasdaq in june 2009 . 7 acquires clinical force in july 2011 . 8 9 10 acquires patient profiles llc in october 2014 . 11 acquires intelemage in april 2016 . 12 innovation timeline edit 1999 2004 1999 medidata solutions introduces its electronic data capture edc system later named medidata rave in 2002 for use by physician site investigators and company researchers for clinical trials . provides industry s first thin client and web based system that is browser independent and operating system independent . first versions used in academic clinical trials . 2001 medidata adds rave web based administration tools for study setup and configuration management . first pharmaceutical and medical customers begin using system . 2002 medidata rave adds new configuration tools for data cleaning edit checks and additional query management for monitoring and data management users . 2003 medidata rave adds reporting and data analysis tools . 2003 medidata solutions introduces a new e submission module a fully automated system for creating bookmarked and hyperlinked electronic clinical report forms ecrfs in pdf format . 2004 medidata rave adds clinical data management cdm becoming industry s first unified platform for both edc and cdm . 2005 2009 2005 medidata rave extended to become unified platform for study design edc local lab data capture migration management and reporting and adds multi byte language support . 2006 medidata rave adds local language translation tool enabling application screens and study definitions to be presented in any language and double data entry capability allowing for paper and paper edc hybrid studies to be run on a common platform . 2007 medidata rave adds global library and study design editing tools to accelerate study build . 2007 medidata rave integrated with fast track s trialspace designer tsd study design software for automatic population of ecrf build from protocol design tool . 2008 medidata rave introduces integrated elearning module to enable investigative sites to complete rave training directly within system . 2008 medidata solutions acquires fast track systems inc. adding medidata designer protocol design tool medidata grants manager for site budget benchmarking and medidata cro contractor for planning and managing cro contracts . 2008 medidata rave certified by the clinical data interchange standards consortium cdisc for complying with the operational data model odm standard becoming first organization to be certified in all eight odm use cases . 2008 medidata solutions introduces rave web services application programming interface api to enable developers to integrate third party systems with rave . 2008 medidata rave adds compatibility with clinical data acquisition standards harmonization cdash standard data collection forms . 2008 medidata solutions introduces medidata developer central web based community for developers integrating clinical trial solutions with medidata rave . 2009 medidata rave adds integrated site visit reporting tool . 2009 medidata rave safety gateway introduced automatically transfers safety event information to safety systems . 2010 present 2010 imedidata launched central portal for access to all medidata studies applications and elearning . 2010 medidata tsdv introduced to support risk based monitoring . 2010 medidata grants manager reintroduced as web based version . 2010 medidata balance introduced as randomization and trial supply management rtsm solution with self service development tools and pre integrated with medidata rave . 2011 medidata solutions introduces medidata insights a clinical trials analytics tool to help study managers track and benchmark progress of trials and clinical study programs . 2011 medidata solutions introduces medidata coder a centralized coding tool that works out of the box with medidata rave . 2011 medidata solutions launches grants manager contracting computer enabled negotiation tool for contracting with clinical sites . 2011 medidata solutions acquires clinical force adds medidata ctms clinical trial management system . 2011 medidata solutions announces medidata standards accelerator service providing support for the clinical data interchange standards consortium cdisc study data tabulation model sdtm the fda s recommended format for electronic submission of case report form data . 2012 medidata balance rtsm solution adds support for block randomization . 2012 medidata solutions technology selected for the cdisc protocol representation model prm wizard . 2012 medidata rave safety gateway expands its capabilities for sites to electronically transfer non serious safety case data in addition to serious safety case data to sponsors safety systems . 2012 medidata solutions introduces medidata grants manager investigator initiated designed for sponsors receiving investigator sponsored proposals from sites . 2012 medidata ctms introduces out of the box integration with medidata rave . 2012 medidata insights adds analytics on patient enrollment 2012 medidata designer adds capability to support cdisc prm standards based structured study design enabling further reuse of design information in downstream systems . 2012 medidata ctms introduces standards based infrastructure to import operational data from multiple cro partners allowing the viewing of real time aggregated operational data . 2012 medidata balance rtsm solution offered as a stand alone system . 2013 medidata solutions introduces medidata sqm the industry s first turnkey site quality management solution . 2013 medidata solutions introduces medidata patient cloud epro for the capture and management of patient reported data . 2014 medidata solutions acquires patient profiles an early stage software company focusing on the statistical evaluation of clinical trial data quality . 13 2014 medidata solutions conducts method development project in partnership with global pharmaceutical company gsk to evaluate the impact of unifying mobile health mhealth devices with cloud based technologies in a clinical trial setting . 2015 medidata solutions integrates garmin s v vofit activity tracker with the medidata platform to expand mobile health mhealth capabilities . 2015 medidata solutions builds open source connector linking apple researchkit with the medidata clinical cloud platform . 2015 medidata solutions integrates validic s digital health platform with the medidata clinical cloud platform to expanding access to patient generated data from a broad range of consumer and medical grade mhealth devices and apps . 2015 medidata solutions introduces operational performance analytics opal dashboard to measure and manage the operational performance of clinical development programs . 2016 medidata solutions introduces appconnect a regulatory compliant software development kit sdk compatible with apple researchkit and other third party toolsets that enables the integration of custom apps with the medidata platform . 2016 medidata solutions introduces sensorlink a regulatory compliant tool enabling the integration and ingestion of data from sensors and wearables into the medidata clinical cloud . 2016 medidata expands its site payment solution medidata payments to include tax identification and calculation and global disbursement capabilities . 2016 medidata solutions acquires intelemage a medical image sharing and workflow management company . 14 industry recognition edit american business awards best overall company stevie award category finalist 2006 . 15 bio it world best of show clinical trials and research category finalist 2006 16 eclinical technologies category winner 2008 . 17 care awards best technological development in clinical trials and partnership of the year categories named finalist 2016 . 18 codie awards software & information industry association siia best medical and health information product category finalist 2006 . 19 computerworld premier 100 it leaders honored 2011 . 20 crain s 40 under 40 named 2010 . 21 deloitte technology fast 50 program for new york named rising star 2003 22 named 2005 . 23 deloitte technology fast 500 named rising star 2003 24 ranked 70th in 2006 25 ranked 247th in 2011 26 ranked 338th in 2012 . 27 dpharm named disruptive innovator of the year 2013 . 28 drug information association dia founders service award 2007 . 29 ernst & young entrepreneur of the year metropolitan new york area technology winner 2006 30 business services winner 2010 . 31 fiercebiotech fiercebiotech s top 10 biotech techies named 2012 . 32 fortune s great places to work certified 2016 . 33 frost & sullivan north american healthcare information technologies entrepreneurial company of the year winner 2006 . 34 healthcare businesswomen s association industry rising star named 2014 35 2015 36 inc. 500 annual list of america s fastest growing private companies ranked 59th in 2006 . 37 inc. 5 000 list of fastest growing private companies in the united states ranked 173rd overall in 2007 . 38 informationweek elite 100 list named finalist 2016 journal of mhealth global digital health 100 awarded 2015 . 39 md di med tech company of the year named reader s choice 2015 . 40 new york state society for human resource management nys shrm best companies to work for in new york state named 2015 . 41 patient engagement app challenge winner of large organization recognition award for engage app prototype at 23rd annual partnerships in clinical trials conference 2014 . 42 pharmavoice pharmavoice 100 named 2005 43 2006 44 2007 45 2008 46 2009 47 2010 48 2011 49 2012 50 2014 51 2015 52 scrip awards best technological development in clinical trials and executive of the year glen de vries categories named finalist 2015 . 53 techie awards healthcare category gold winner 2011 . 54 the centerwatch monthly s 20 innovators changing the face of the clinical trials industry named 2013 . 55 the new york ten awards 2005 . 56 external links edit company s website references edit yahoo finance www.mdsol.com form s 1 . edgar . u.s. securities and exchange commission . 23 january 2009 . retrieved 2016 07 23 . borfitz deborah 18 march 2008 . medidata moves upstream with fast track acquisition . bioit world . retrieved 2016 07 23 . protocol optimization and edc . clinpage . 30 april 2008 . retrieved 2016 07 23 . mansell peter 19 march 2008 . fast track buy gives medidata new protocol development planning tools . pharmatimes . retrieved 2016 07 23 . prospectus . edgar . u.s. securities and exchange 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