The Bonn office originated from Datatrak’s acquisition of electronic data capture technology from the German division of Electronic Data Systems in 1998. Datatrak says this EDC-only legacy product needed more intense supervision and support, resulting in higher costs. By contrast, its current e-clinical platform “is far more user-friendly, modern and intuitive, which results in a diminished requirement for support, allowing for a consolidation of these services within a lower cost environment”
All new clinical trials being implemented by Datatrak now use the new platform. The company plans to complete the few remaining trials using the older EDC-only product by late 2009 or early 2010.
“This office … was the early pioneer in this industry during the 1990s. However, the advancing innovative nature of our platform is directed towards as much self-reliance as possible for our customers and users and this fact, combined with the economic disadvantages of the currency exchange rates, necessitated this sound business decision. In the end, this action will increase our corporate competitiveness,”
Datatrak recently restructured its management team, eliminating the position of chief operating officer, and has been implementing a number of cost control measures following poor financial results (see Biopharm Development News 21/5/08).
… share price drops below $1
The company’s share price has plummeted over the past 12 months, from $4.25 in July 2007 to just $0.45 on July 3rd 2008. On June 16th, Datatrak received a letter from the Nasdaq notifying it that its share price had fallen below the minimum $1 requirement for continued inclusion on the stock market. Although Datatrak’s stock will continue to trade for the time being, the company has until December 8th to regain compliance with the minimum bid price rule. After that date, it might be given an additional 180 days to achieve compliance or its shares could be delisted. Article submitted by www.jobs4dd.com, a specialist online recruitment service for the clinical trial and drug development sectors. Latest news and jobs in the industry are listed on a daily basis. Latest international clinical research jobs, CRM jobs, regulatory affairs jobs, data management jobs, statistician jobs, pharmacovigilance jobs and many more vacancies are listed on the www.jobs4dd.com website.
