Product

How Auxilius Is Built to Support Self-Service

By Kristen Lueck, VP of Product
From closing the books to planning what's next, the Auxilius platform is built for teams to manage their clinical finance self-serve, start to finish.

We get this question a lot: People love the expertise of the Auxilius team, but do they need to use our support team to use Auxilius?

The answer is no. Every aspect of managing close, forecasting, and everything in between is possible via our automated self-service tools. In fact, many of our 120+ customers choose this route for the control it gives them over timing and execution of time-sensitive activities during the accounting close window. Here’s what that looks like.

Getting data in

Whatever the source, one of three paths covers it, and all three are things your team runs directly:

  • Direct integrations, via API with your ERP or EDC.
  • Automated file transfers, sent via encryption into our document library and auto-mapped using our proprietary data ontologies configured at the study level
  • File upload with automated mapping, just upload any file format, confirm the system-generated mapping (one time), and review — your data is ready to use right away, on your timeline.

None of these require handing a file to anyone. A path is picked for each data type, and the data is available the moment it's loaded.

Vendor estimate auto-load tool

Managing change orders

When a new change order comes in, your team can upload the source file directly. Auxilius automatically maps it to your budget activities. The mapping engine recognizes matching descriptions even when the wording isn't identical, and it remembers previous mappings, key columns, and file names so each round gets faster. The first time, your team reviews and adjusts the mapping as needed. From there, every future change order gets mapped automatically. Before anything is applied, you get detailed analytics showing exactly what's changed, so you can see the full impact and confirm with confidence.

 

Reforecasting and scenario planning

Your team is totally in control when it comes to managing your forecast. When milestones shift, enrollment runs faster than expected, or a site activates later than planned, you’ll see that directly in the Auxilius system. All your team has to do is apply that change in the forecast, and the forecast recalculates on its own. For scenario planning, your team can build and compare “what if” scenarios of your trial in our scenario builder — giving you activity-level transparency into the impact of assumption changes — all self-serve. 

Running the close

There’s nothing to wait on to close your books in Auxilius. Everything that feeds your close is ready before you start: invoices and trial clinical data sync automatically, and vendor estimates and other documents map in minutes using our automated tools. Closing the month is a roles-based, in-app checklist your team works through on your own schedule. Review the numbers, apply judgment where it's needed, and sign off.

Expertise is available. It isn't required.

Auxilius customers leverage the end-to-end workflows using the structured clinical data and resulting insights on their own every day.

 

What we also understand is that some resource-constrained sponsors could use an extra hand to supplement the heavy workload their finance and accounting teams have. Our team of all US-based (not offshore) technical accounting and clinical experts can be leveraged for additional support, including QA, topside adjustment recording, and for analysis and insights. And because we support 120+ biopharma customers, we’re always happy to share what we’re learning — that’s the value-add that can’t be replaced.

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