Case Study: Innovative Analytics achieves faster, collaborative clinical-trial analysis and improved regulatory reporting with TIBCO Software's Spotfire DecisionSite

Innovative Analytics Tracks Down Unexpected Clinical Trial Results with Spotfire

Innovative Analytics, a Kalamazoo-based statistical data management consulting firm founded by Dr. Patricia Ruppel, helps pharmaceutical clients investigate unexpected clinical trial results. The company struggled with slow, cyclical analysis using static SAS reports—collaboration was delayed by paper interfaces, and limited reporting made it difficult to convince regulators that a repeat study wasn’t required.

Innovative Analytics implemented Spotfire DecisionSite as a teamware visualization and triage tool alongside SAS, allowing clinicians, statisticians and regulators to explore data together in real time, identify outliers and subgroup effects, and run guided workflows. The change produced much faster turnaround, stronger documentation and regulatory presentations, fewer unnecessary study repeats, and reduced paperwork through a more automated, collaborative analysis process.

Innovative Analytics

Patricia Ruppel

President