Analytics is playing a key role in helping the pharma and life sciences industry manage the rapidly changing environments and meet the challenges. As basic reporting continues to be a must-have, advanced predictive and prescriptive analytics are now starting to have a bigger impact on the sector. The key enabler for analytics in the industry today is the increasing regulatory requirement that has driven the collation and standardization of data, which can be used for analytics.

Realizing the benefits, organizations have started to utilize full impact of cloud, mobility and social media to embrace an analytics-driven decision making. This is helping them create competitive advantage in today's dynamic and challenging market. Further, there are vast opportunities for pharma and life sciences organizations to utilize analytics in new ways to enable patient centricity, drive innovation, streamline operations, and collaborate to demonstrate tangible and measurable value. Such a transformative effect is also providing new opportunities for the analytics solution providers in the market.

To help CIOs understand and navigate the complex vendor landscape, Pharma Tech Outlook presents a special edition on analytics for the pharma and life sciences industry. A distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, and analysts including Pharma Tech Outlook's editorial board have decided the top players in the U.S. The listing provides a look into how these solutions alleviate the challenges pertaining to data analytics.We present to you Top 10 Analytics Solution Providers for the Pharma and Life Sciences Industry.