OpenClinica Update is User-Driven

The newly released beta version of EDC/data-management platform OpenClinica 3.1 boasts a "completely rewritten" version of Extract Data. It's now based around a plug-in architecture.

It turns out the various ways in which users organize, format and present data are "tremendously diverse and often conflicting," says OpenClinica provider Akaza Research, in an announcement.

Prior to the rewrite, the Extract Data architecture made it difficult to add output formats or to tweak existing ones. It's not often that you hear a solutions provider talk about product shortcomings. But Extract Data showcases two differences between open-source and proprietary software platforms.