On-Demand Webinar
Today’s regulated business workloads require a new level of flexibility and scale to handle the needs of life sciences companies. In this on-demand session, learn how to maintain continuous compliance of GxP workloads in the public cloud across your global infrastructure, cloud service platforms, and business application software (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS). Get tips on how to scale your GxP use of the public cloud based on your cloud maturity and unique business needs.
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What You’ll Learn
- How to maintain continuous compliance of GxP workloads as you move infrastructure and platform services to the public cloud.
- How the IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS layers of your tech stack map to GxP migration and validation decisions.
- How to choose a starting point—lift & shift, data migration, or phased migration of critical applications—based on where you are in your cloud journey.
- How content orchestration and a DevOps framework support faster delivery, lower costs, and greater efficiency.
- How advanced analytics (AI/ML/RPA) build on a cloud foundation to deliver the insights that drive transformation.
Why Maximizing the Cloud Matters for GxP
To reap the benefits of the cloud, you need to think holistically about your tech stack. Getting your infrastructure and platform services to the cloud provides you with faster delivery, lower costs, and greater efficiency. Where you begin depends on where you are in your cloud journey.
USDM’s point of view: the public cloud is only an advantage for life sciences if compliance keeps pace with scale. Rather than treating validation as a one-time gate, we help teams maintain a continuously validated, continuously compliant state across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS—so cloud maturity and regulatory readiness grow together instead of in tension. Our Cloud Assurance approach keeps GxP systems audit-ready as they evolve.
Use Cases
To reap the benefits of the cloud, you need to think holistically about your tech stack. Getting your infrastructure and platform services to the cloud provides you with faster delivery, lower costs, and greater efficiency. Where you begin depends on where you are in your cloud journey.
- Rapid Application Migration (Lift & Shift) is a typical starting point in a life sciences company’s cloud adoption journey.
- Data Migration provides a continuously validated state of your infrastructure and platform.
- Phased Migration of Critical Applications & Databases addresses the move of highly complex, external facing GxP applications.
- Content Orchestration is the seamless creation and management of content among teams in your organization.
- DevOps Framework is ideal when you have a business need for centrally located services to access GxP applications.
- Advanced Analytics (AI/ML/RPA) enable you to deliver the insights you need to drive transformation in your organization.
Moving GxP workloads to the public cloud also raises the questions every regulated team has to answer—21 CFR Part 11 controls for cloud-hosted records and signatures, and the data integrity expectations that follow your data wherever it runs. A risk-based validation strategy aligned with Computer Software Assurance (CSA) helps you focus effort where it actually reduces patient and product risk.
About the Presenters
Stepheni Norton, Director of Product Management, Digital and Cloud Solutions
Jim Lyle, Director of Automation
Frequently Asked Questions
Can GxP workloads run in the public cloud and stay compliant?
Yes. GxP workloads can run across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS in the public cloud while maintaining continuous compliance. The key is treating compliance as an ongoing, continuously validated state of your infrastructure and platform rather than a single point-in-time event.
Where should we start our GxP cloud journey?
Where you begin depends on where you are in your cloud journey. A common starting point is Rapid Application Migration (lift & shift), while more complex, external-facing GxP applications are better suited to a phased migration of critical applications and databases.
What are the benefits of moving GxP infrastructure and platform services to the cloud?
Getting your infrastructure and platform services to the cloud provides faster delivery, lower costs, and greater efficiency. It also creates the foundation for advanced analytics such as AI, ML, and RPA that deliver the insights needed to drive transformation.
How does cloud maturity affect our approach?
The session encourages a holistic view of your tech stack and recommends scaling your GxP use of the public cloud based on your cloud maturity and unique business needs, so the strategy fits your current state rather than a one-size-fits-all model.
Ready to watch? Click Watch Now above for the full-length on-demand webinar. To talk through your own GxP cloud roadmap with USDM, contact us.