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5 reasons to make the switch to an out-of-the-box Protocol Validation solution
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Digital Protocol Validation SuiteJanuary 23, 2023

5 reasons to make the switch to an out-of-the-box Protocol Validation solution

Automating your validation processes with Soliton’s out-of-the-box Protocol Validation Solutions (PVS) lets you focus on your core validation work without tediously developing software from scratch or debugging your code.  

Benefits of automating protocol validation processes

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The Build vs Buy Dilemma: Why An Out-Of-The_Box Solution is Exactly What You Need

PVS offers complete end-to-end protocol validation. The table below gives quantitative insight into why buying Soliton’s Protocol Validation Solutions (PVS) is more effective than building your own solution. 

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Here’s a qualitative approach to how this can positively impact your protocol validation activities. 

1. Cost, effort, and time: 

A proprietary solution could easily consume 5 to 6 person-months of development time and cost you more than $75,000 for a single protocol. Most importantly, why must your Validation Engineer write code and build automated validation infrastructures? 

On the other hand, Soliton’s PVS needs only a few hours to install, at a lower cost and with minimal effort, while your engineers focus on other priorities: measurement & data analysis. 

2. Test Coverage: 

Building a solution requires more technical knowledge and extensive protocol research within a given time, resulting in limited test coverage of only around 60-80%. This is not optimal. Compliance takes a hit, leading to potential product failure and, in certain use cases, customer returns. A solution that can achieve greater test coverage will help you capture the market and win over customers. 

A tried-and-tested alternative is Soliton’s PVS, developed with 15+ person-years of R&D experience, that can achieve greater than 90% test coverage, create custom test cases, and give you a competitive edge. 

3. User-Experience: 

Do you spend weeks on data collection to make your solution user-friendly? Focusing solely on UI & UX can divert attention from your validation time, which is why you must leave it to the experts. 

PVS comes with an interactive GUI that generates reports in just a few clicks. Data collection now becomes much easier with PVS, for veterans and newbies alike. 

4. Onboarding: 

Adopting a new solution can be intimidating, especially when it comes to onboarding. When you buy our PVS, onboarding becomes seamless and simple with a well-established repository of collaterals and FAQs that might otherwise take years to develop. This reduces the ramp-up time for new users to about 4 hours instead of a week. In case you hit a roadblock, unlike an in-house solution where you might struggle with it yourselves, you can reach out to the Support Team who are just a ping away!  

5. Maintenance, upgrades, and support: 

As technology advances, so does our responsibility to match that pace. An in-house solution might require internal developers to keep track of protocol updates and have deep expertise in various protocols to upgrade and support. Our seasoned R&D team with 15+ person-years of protocol developing experience understands and delivers faster, overcoming any challenge with attrition of the in-house protocol expert. 

Written by

Arundhathy S

Jan 23, 2023

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