YourEncore (Indianapolis), a provider of solutions to the life sciences, consumer health and nutrition industries, reported a partnership extension with Roche (Basel, Switzerland) to provide expert solutions and services to support enhancing productivity and strength.

Since 2010, YourEncore has partnered with Roche on more than 30 initiatives in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Recently, the company led sessions with internal and external experts that helped Roche identify innovative ways to conduct clinical trials as well as to extend its global strategy in Asia.

YourEncore's team of veteran researchers, clinicians, manufacturing and regulatory specialists have an average of 25+ years of experience spanning product discovery, development, regulatory and commercialization.

In other agreements/contracts news: BT (London) and Exostar (Irving, Texas) said that Exostar is joining the BT for Life Sciences ecosystem as a strategic member. The two companies say they will be working closely together to enble Exostar's federated identity solutions to ensure life sciences organizations receive seamless, secure access to the BT for Life Sciences cloud compute platform.

BT and Exostar say they aim to deliver a joint proposition that leverages their respective capabilities to address the secure, federated collaboration challenges of the life sciences market. Exostar will be providing their cloud-based identity and access management solution suite, anchored by the Exostar Life Sciences Identity Hub. Organizations connect once to the Identity Hub, which provides them with trusted pathways to the assets of all of their partners in the community, and vice versa. Individuals benefit from a single sign-on user experience that allows them to use one credential to access the applications and information they need to collaborate productively and securely.

The combination of BT for Life Sciences, the BT Cloud Compute platform, and Exostar's Life Sciences Identity Hub aims to permit easy, rapid and safe access to existing solutions, the companies said. The mutual goal of both companies is to let the scientist focus on the science and not have to worry about the complexities of secure information management, particularly in a cloud environment that crosses enterprise boundaries.

BT is a provider of communications services and solutions, serving customers in more than 170 countries. Exostar powers secure business-to-business information sharing, collaboration and business process integration throughout the value chain.