<p>SharePoint has become a recognized investment across the life sciences industry, in which its capabilities have been acknowledged for improving work place practices and enabling them to be done more efficiently and effectively. This has generated increasing awareness for the need to have collaboration standards and best practices, along with the development of new capabilities that can further leverage this investment.</p><p>To help the industry better understand how SharePoint can be effectively used in multiple life science environments, Pharmica Consulting is proud to host its 8th SharePoint User Conference for the Life Sciences Industry. Gil Velez, Associate Director, Enterprise Content and Collaboration Management (ECCM), Global IT at Celgene has been added to the agenda as a speaker.</p><p>"We are glad to have a company like Celgene share some of their SharePoint best practices," said Greg Cohee, Partner with Pharmica Consulting. "They have experienced tremendous growth over the past years and have been a model to other biotechs across the industry. We are looking forward to hearing how they have leveraged SharePoint and hope that others can benefit from hearing about their applications."</p><p>"Gil's will be one of the more cutting edge talks we have had on this topic." said Matt Kiernan, Partner with Pharmica Consulting. "He'll be talking about Celgene's journey moving from a legacy LiveLink shop to leveraging SharePoint as an enterprise collaboration and content management platform. While many other companies have done similar things, Celgene is leading the industry in the use of SharePoint for validated applications."</p><p><a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10473872.htm">Keep reading...</a></p>