First Consulting Group acquires Zorch

BANGALORE, INDIA: First Consulting Group, Inc., (FCG), the parent company of FCG Software Services India, has announced the acquisition of Zorch, Inc., a Salt Lake City, Utah based company that has built a proprietary enterprise software solution to provide regulated content management and collaboration for the life sciences industry.

The products and solutions by Zorch are built entirely on the Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server platform, and are designed to allow life sciences organizations to leverage their existing Microsoft platform investments while capitalizing on FCG's product innovations and industry-leading best-practices. The new offering acquired by FCG will be named FirstPoint, the company said in a release.

Larry Ferguson, chief executive officer of FCG, said, "We are very excited to add the Zorch team to FCG and offer FirstPoint as a solution to the life sciences market. FCG already has a market-leading solution in FirstDoc(R), a product that is used in 12 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies and supports over 50,000 end users. We believe there is a good opportunity to leverage FCG's strong brand name and experience in the life sciences market, and the FirstPoint(TM) product opens new opportunities for FCG in pharma and biotech enterprises of all sizes."

Vadeesh Budramane, VP Technology & COO, FCG India, commented, “This acquisition demonstrates our commitment to life science market. It also strengthens our leadership position in the technology space”.