The market will evolve to embrace tools based on generic forms development applications with features configured specifically for Clinical Trials. Industry leaders are currently Adobe (Liquid Forms stuff) and MS (InfoPath). Proprietary forms development tools exist today only because they add-in features for clinical trial adaptation that are otherwise unavailable in current versions of Adobe and MS forms development tools. If I were an EDC vendor why would I want to support development of baseline form creation capabilities such as adding in validations, rules, views, roles, privileges, signatures, etc. on top of having to code for integration with web services, databases, xml, n-tier technology etc.. It's almost like trying to create your own word editing program so you can write a protocol. If I were a customer of an EDC vendor I would start looking at the underlying technology and who supports its future development. If it's not Adobe or MS, it's not going to be here long.
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