{"id":65035,"date":"2021-03-18T18:39:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T17:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/?page_id=65035"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:13:58","slug":"dicerna-harmonizes-quality-management-with-veeva-vault-quality-suite","status":"publish","type":"customer-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/customer-stories\/dicerna-harmonizes-quality-management-with-veeva-vault-quality-suite\/","title":{"rendered":"Dicerna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nDicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading developer<br \/>\nof investigational ribonucleic acid interference<br \/>\n(RNAi), creates medicines that silence or turn<br \/>\noff the genes that cause disease. With a vision<br \/>\nto maximize the impact of RNAi on medicine<br \/>\nand deliver lifesaving therapeutic medicines,<br \/>\nthe company needed to modernize its vast and<br \/>\nfragmented quality system landscape that was<br \/>\ndifficult to use and costly to maintain.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe needed to transform our paper-based quality systems into one intelligent, data-driven, end-to-end<br \/>\ndigital platform to harmonize quality across all sites and operational areas while improving user experience<br \/>\nand ensuring inspection readiness,\u201d said Anthony Davis, senior director of quality assurance and compliance<br \/>\nat Dicerna.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAdditionally, the company wanted to enhance efficiency, oversight, and decision making by:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Improving quality management efficiency by 50% and reducing paperwork by 90%<\/li>\n<li> Simplifying quality processes through automation and eliminating redundant steps<\/li>\n<li> Increasing awareness of issues and risks for proactive mitigation<\/li>\n<li> Centralizing data and making it widely accessible to all relevant parties<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our goals were to achieve better quality outcomes by improving efficiency, oversight,<br \/>\nand decision making.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span>\u2013 Anthony Davis, senior director of quality assurance and compliance, Dicerna<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Quality Innovation Drives Business Innovation<\/h2>\n<h3>Improving quality, oversight, and compliance with unified quality systems<\/h3>\n<p>\nTo automate and harmonize quality processes globally, Dicerna implemented ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Quality Cloud \u2013<br \/>\na unified suite of document, training, and quality management applications on a single platform.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe company deployed the solution in phases, starting with ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ QualityDocs to simplify GxP document<br \/>\nmanagement. Then they added ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Training to streamline document and GxP training, followed by ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ QMS<br \/>\nto achieve better control and visibility into quality processes across the globe. With strong collaboration<br \/>\nacross the organization and a robust change management strategy, the unification of the quality systems<br \/>\nstreamlined processes, increased efficiencies, and improved compliance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cOur document processes are now harmonized across all departments,\u201d Davis explains. \u201cReassignment of<br \/>\ncritical changes occurs automatically. Deviations, CAPAs, and change controls are linked to documents,<br \/>\ntraining, and risks. Easily managed training plans, automatic training assignments, and intuitive dashboards<br \/>\nhelp ensure compliance.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAll stakeholders now have access to Dicerna\u2019s QMS records and visibility into quality events. With the detailed<br \/>\ninsight of who, what and why, Dicerna is able to quickly resolve issues and trend the metrics for continuous<br \/>\nimprovement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cLeveraging ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Quality Cloud, we have optimized our business processes. We are now well equipped to meet<br \/>\nour current and future business needs,\u201d Davis concludes. \u201cThe centralization and efficiency gains \u2013 along with<br \/>\nthe enhanced usability \u2013 have resulted in faster decision making, more motivated employees, and a significant<br \/>\nreduction in maintenance overhead.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDicerna will continue its transformation journey by implementing additional ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Quality Cloud components<br \/>\ndelivered as part of ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ\u2019s innovation cycle of three releases per year.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We reviewed the efficacy of our processes through the lens of inspection readiness,<br \/>\nquality performance, and oversight \u2026 and eliminated several non-essential steps.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span>\u2013 Anthony Davis, senior director of quality assurance and compliance, Dicerna<\/span>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how going from paper-based quality systems to a digital eQMS increased efficiency by 50% and reduced paperwork by 90%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":62519,"parent":0,"template":"","product-link-list":[],"class_list":["post-65035","customer-stories","type-customer-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/customer-stories\/65035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/customer-stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/customer-stories"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/customer-stories\/65035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82746,"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/customer-stories\/65035\/revisions\/82746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product-link-list","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-link-list?post=65035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}