History

In 1993, the IT department of the Dr. Manfred Köhler GmbH, a statistics and biometrics company in Freiburg, came to life by Max Horneck installing the first LAN. The IT department and its services grew, and in 1996 it presented a tool for distributed data collection using modem dial in connections and a Maximus CBBS Mailbox System to Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Grenzach.

In 1998 the first trials in transplantation and Hepatitis C were started then using a Web-Based Internet RDE solution with Linux serving Apache and Adabas D for data management. In the early 2001 Dr. Köhler was performing 6 trials with this application now known as TRI@L-IT V.1.

As other CROs began to show their interest in the software, this was the right time to spin out the department of information and technology. The new company named clinIT AG was founded in August 2001. clinIT's clinical trial software TRI@L-IT is being used in trials performed by clinIT as well as in trials where the project management is performed by another CRO.

Since then, TRI@L-IT has been continuously advanced and adapted to our customers' requirements. The version currently in use is TRI@L-IT V.3, TRI@L-IT V.4 is expected to be released at the beginning of 2009.

Now, in summer 2008 clinIT can look back on 10 years of EDC experience in over 140 TRI@L-IT projects. TRI@L-IT brings together sites on all continents as well as small study teams for smaller-scale trials. The very high degree of repeat business proves how successful we are in achieving our priority aim of exceeding our customer's expectations. Mid-size and top ten pharmaceutical manufacturers as well as CROs rely on our expert services.