Polar BioPharma Lifecycle Management (BPLM)
IDBS Polar collects, manages, analyzes and enables you to share product and process data allowing actionable insights and regulatory compliance throughout the drug development process. Optimize experiments, enhance connectivity, and strengthen quality and compliance to gain faster insights into products and processes.
IDBS Polar collects, manages, analyzes and enables you to share product and process data allowing actionable insights and regulatory compliance throughout the drug development process. Polar can:
- Compile disparate, disjointed data and files, and store them
- Capture and structure data against catalogs and data models
- Gather and trace process execution data
- Provide easily accessible assimilated data to drive smarter and faster decision-making
IDBS Polar platform overview
Polar can help transform your business from improving collaboration to providing powerful data analytics capabilities. Benefits include:
Process Orchestration
Streamline process orchestration to achieve outcomes faster
Our robust SaaS offering is ideally suited for experimental design, execution, verification and advanced analysis that accompany drug development. Design and execute your bespoke processes in our platform to connect scientific workflows with technology and teams.
Work Execution
Automate the management and oversight of work
Build in business, scientific and process rules for execution, approval and review so that you can prioritize and execute work in the way best aligned to your teams, and remain reassured regulatory and business compliance needs are met. Configure our flexible and scalable platform to your needs with our experienced Professional Services team.
Collaboration
Execute work and manage tasks in a single platform
Keep experimental work, inventory and tasks organized within our permission-enabled enterprise platform, to ensure smooth transitions between teams, traceable product and process lineage, and visibility and alignment on priority work.
Data Analytics
Data-driven decision making with data you can trust
Capture multimodal data in a sophisticated data backbone in a standardized way to connect experiment data with metadata and process data. With contextualized, augmented data at your fingertips, leverage our powerful data analytics capabilities to analyze and explore the potential of your data.
Data Integration
Integrate with your existing ecosystem
Enhance data management, aggregation and integration with our powerful toolkit of connectors and APIs that allows you to get data in and out of Polar with ease. Connect your equipment, systems and tools to unlock automation and create a powerful and efficient ecosystem.
Compliance
21 CFR Part 11 & Eudralex Volume 11 Annex 4 compliant
With role-based access controls, comprehensive audit features, record-version control and electronic signature management, remain reassured of 21 CFR Part 11 and Eudralex Volume 11 Annex 4 regulatory compliance at all stages of data capture, creation, movement and management.
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Comprehensive R&D informatics
Well suited for iterative Lab Loop cycles from preclinical through to development, scale-up and tech transfer to support manufacturing.
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Flexible, compliant workflows
Configurable, low-code/no-code software supports a wide spectrum of scientific workflows from discovery to pilot plant.
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Unified data backbone
Integrates experimental, product, and process data into a single, contextualized product & process knowledge base.
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Lab ecosystem compatibility
Comprehensive integration options for data in and out. Implement with IDBS or your preferred technology partner.
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Advanced analytics & reporting
Analyze data in-platform with user-driven tools for deeper insights or export AI-ready data easily to other data stores.
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GxP-ready environments
Choose between GxP-compliant or non-GxP configurations to meet your regulatory needs.
| Explorer | The core engine where experimental data and metadata is captured in real time in an enterprise-grade ELN, enabling improved efficiencies and enhancing collaboration in a secure, intuitive environment built to meet regulatory standards for electronic records and data integrity. |
| Integrations | The integration framework and library of pre-built connectors & APIs allows seamless connection of critical instruments & systems to Polar – ensuring data integrity, operational efficiency, and the full value of your scientific data. |
| Advance | This unique multidimensional spreadsheet technology provides laboratory execution system (LES) capabilities and allows scientists the flexibility to build and customize workflows to match their processes and fit their needs including complex data analysis. |
| Control | A centralized knowledge repository for parameter tracking and process definition management, connecting seamlessly to experiment execution. This helps teams enhance process understanding and strengthen control strategies. |
| Chemistry | This platform for chemical research and registration helps you draw molecules and reactions, run stoichiometry calculations and record the procedures, parameters, associated data and outcomes of the reactions. |
| Accelerator library | A growing collection of pre-configured customizable workflow and insight accelerators that are designed to help launch projects faster, ensure consistency and quality while reducing manual effort across the drug development lifecycle. |
| Data backbone | A framework that connects experiments, results, materials, equipment and locations using FAIR principles to ensure data continuity and traceability by allowing for ease of searching, lookup, analysis and prediction across time. |
| Insight | The data analytics engine that delivers real-time, contextualized insights with AI/ML capabilities through an intuitive interface—enabling scientists to analyze data within Polar or via third-party BI tools, supporting flexible, data-driven decision-making. |
| Request | A centralized management feature that helps teams manage and fulfill complex, multi-step work requests, ensuring team activities and laboratory operations are prioritized, scheduled, tracked and completed on time. |
| Collaboration | Creates a secure platform for external partners to enter data directly, coordinate tasks, track progress and analyze data leveraging built-in data integrity and compliance features of Polar. Eliminating the need for manual transcription of external data. |
| Inventory | This solution streamlines lab operations by integrating lab execution with LIMS capabilities to track and manage samples, materials, and equipment in and across experiments—delivering full traceability for compliance, actionable insights and operational excellence. |