3i Infotech has announced a partnership with Caliber Technologies Pvt. Ltd to integrate Caliber's Laboratory Information Management System with 3i Infotech's ORION Enterprise Resource Planning Suite. The two products working together will deliver strict regulatory compliance (Good Manufacturing Practice) and improved enterprise-wide visibility of vital data relating to quality control and manufacturing for companies within the pharmaceutical industry.

Caliber's LIMS offers delivers process controls and auditing capabilities to comply with government regulatory requirements. Caliber's LIMS is validated for government standards from the Food Drug Administration (FDA) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP).

"The LIMS enables quality control and clinical laboratories to support manufacturing in a stringently regulated setting," said Sekhar Surabhi, CEO of Caliber. "Caliber serves R&D teams in the development of new drugs, automating the process while providing complete traceability to ORION allows us to improve information sharing across these businesses as a whole."

"3i Infotech built ORION, with specific industries in mind, to serve exact domain needs," said Sharad Vajpayee, president at 3i Infotech Enterprise Solutions. "ORION is very competent for pharmaceutical, and we're always identifying partnerships, like the decision to work with Caliber, to extend its functionality. We're pleased to offer the pharmaceutical industry an even richer software solution to meet the exact requirements at every stage of manufacturing."