Name

Saama

Legal name

Saama Technologies, Inc.

Website

https://saama.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Clinical Data Analytics Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Clinical Trial Informatics (EDC/CTMS/eCOA/eTMF) (HLAGAJAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

B2B SaaS & Enterprise Personalization (CRM, Sales, Support) (HDAAAGAJ)

Keywords

• Clinical data analytics
• AI clinical trials
• Life sciences analytics
• Clinical data management
• Pharmacovigilance analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Campbell

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscriptions: AI-backed SaaS solutions offered on subscription basis including Clinical Data Foundation platform, Smart Data Quality, Data Hub, and other clinical analytics products. Delivered via cloud-based platform with per-study or portfolio provisioning.
2. Professional Services: Product-based industry services including AI Innovation Lab engagements, Digital Transformation consulting, Data Platform Implementation and Engineering, and specialized analytics services for life sciences organizations.
3. Managed Services: Intelligent Managed Services including AI Ops platform and DataOps as a Guaranteed Outcome with SLAs on uptime, quality, and MTTR enforced by breach credits.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Saama provides an AI-powered clinical analytics cloud platform for life sciences organizations, automating clinical development and commercialization processes. The company offers AI-backed SaaS solutions (including Data Hub, Smart Data Quality, Smart Medical Coding, Patient Insights, Operational Insights, and an Agentic Document Generator) as well as product-based industry services and accelerators for pharmaceutical and biotech customers.

Product overview

Saama offers a unified AI-driven clinical data management platform plus modular solutions organized into three main categories: Clinical Data Foundation products (Data Hub, Smart Data Quality, Smart Medical Coding, Patient Insights, Operational Insights, Agentic Document Generator), Statistical Programming & Submissions platform (BRAIN with SCE, SDTM, Visualization modules and Navigator tools for SDTM/ADaM automation), and Agentic Solutions spanning Clinical (GenAI Solutions, Real World Evidence, Study Design/Conduct, Biometrics), Commercial (Sales Operations, Market Operations, Market Access, Patient Services), MedTech, and Healthcare (Revenue Cycle Management, Digital Care Coordination, Hospital Orchestration). The platform is delivered as SaaS with AI-backed solutions and product-based industry services, powered by over 100 AI/ML models trained exclusively for life sciences, a proprietary clinical LLM, and a knowledge graph for full data traceability.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Astraa: A Saama company that offers data analytics solutions and services for banking and capital markets, consumer goods, insurance, the public sector, and more.

Products and services

• Data Hub Centralized clinical data ingestion platform with 40+ pre-built connectors for real-time structured and unstructured data ingestion, AI-driven data mapping, and SQL-based access. Reduces time to data discovery by 35%.
• Smart Data Quality (SDQ) AI-powered data review automation using 100+ life sciences-trained models to identify discrepancies and generate queries, reducing review time from 30 minutes to 3 minutes per query and saving 20,000+ hours of manual work.
• Smart Medical Coding (SMC) Multi-agent AI system for MedDRA and WHODrug verbatim coding with 92% rank-1 model confidence, built-in peer review, and continuous human-in-the-loop learning. EDC and API integration with inbound/outbound APIs and token-based authentication.
• Patient Insights Real-time patient safety monitoring with generative AI for conversational data queries, smart patient profiles, and AI-generated clinically relevant alerts. Delivers 40% time savings for patient data review.
• Operational Insights Trial operations dashboard with AI-generated summaries, KPI configuration, study startup monitoring, and task management across study/country/site levels.
• Agentic Document Generator SaaS-based GenAI framework for clinical documentation using multiple LLMs including a proprietary clinical LLM. Reduces content drafting time by 30% and error rates by 20-40%.
• BRAIN (Biometrics Research and Analysis Information Network) Centralized statistical programming and biostatistics platform with a proprietary knowledge graph providing full audit trail and artifact traceability from raw data to submissions.
• BRAIN SCE Unified workbench for statistical computing integrating program/dataset creation, validation, submission artifact development, multi-language programming support, and issue tracking.
• BRAIN SDTM CDISC SDTM automation module producing 50% reduction in effort and 69% reduction in timelines for SDTM output generation through metadata-based code generation.
• BRAIN Visualization No-code clinical trial table creation using drag-and-drop interface with pre-existing templates, knowledge-graph-based source data, and automated table of contents generation.
• SDTM Navigator Agentic AI solution for SDTM transformation that automates mapping suggestions for clinical programmers to approve or reject, achieving up to 50% time savings.
• ADaM Navigator Industry-first solution to automate ADaM package generation including specs, programs, and define.xml for regulatory-compliant submissions at scale.
• TLF Analyzer AI-powered analysis of Tables, Listings, and Figures with Figures-to-Text capability that reduces clinical study report analysis time from weeks to days.
• Clean Patient Tracker (CPT) Patient-level data cleaning status tracking and missing data monitoring with configurable milestone readiness for clinical trials.
• Integrated Data Review Assist (IDRA) Unified workflow connecting data quality checks, interactive review listings, subcategories, and listings for collaborative data review plan management.
• Clinical GenAI Solutions Suite of GenAI capabilities including SAP to TOC automation, Patient Narrative Generation, Patient Information Leaflet Generation, Medical Literature Search, and Talk-to-Data conversational analytics for clinical operations.
• Real World Evidence Solutions Custom RWE development with data harmonization to OMOP/Sentinel common data models, comparative safety/efficacy analysis, and Active Safety Analytics (ASAP) for life sciences.
• ContextIQ 12-week engagement building an AI-ready data foundation with Context Graph for grounded AI, increasing AI project success rate from 13% to 71% and improving AI answer relevance by 4x.
• AI Innovation Lab Structured engagement model with Platinum/Gold/Silver tiers delivering AI solutions from ideation to production in 12 weeks, backed by 25+ years of Data and Analytics expertise.
• DataOps as a Guaranteed Outcome Outcome-based managed service for Snowflake/Databricks with SLAs on uptime, quality, and MTTR enforced by breach credits.
• Modern Data Foundations End-to-end data platform implementation service including cloud modernization, legacy migration, BI modernization, data governance, and AI/GenAI enablement.

Quantifiable outcome

• 35% reduction in time to data discovery with Data Hub
• +10 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability12 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• PfizerflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership with Pfizer to integrate AI-driven data solutions across Pfizer's R&D portfolio. Saama and Pfizer expanded their agreement to deploy Saama's AI platform across Pfizer's clinical development operations. The Saama platform powered the clinical trial that led to the world's first COVID-19 vaccine.
• CRO PartnerscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCRO Partners network for distributing Saama's AI solutions to pharmaceutical sponsors through contract research organization relationships.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Medidata Solutions (Dassault Systèmes): Medidata is the leading EDC, RTSM, and clinical data platform used across pharma R&D. It directly competes with Saama's Clinical Data Foundation and BRAIN submissions products, targeting the same enterprise pharma and biotech customers with AI-augmented clinical trial workflows.
• Veeva Systems: Veeva provides a cloud platform spanning clinical (Veeva Vault CDB, EDC), regulatory, quality, and commercial for life sciences. It is a direct competitor to Saama's clinical, regulatory submission, and commercial solutions and serves the same top-tier pharma customer base.
• ICON plc: ICON is a global CRO with its own clinical technology platform (including Firecrest and ICONIK) and a heavy data/biometrics services business. It directly competes with Saama in clinical data management, biometrics, and submission programming, often bundling tech with CRO services.
• Parexel International: Parexel is a global CRO with significant data management, biostatistics, and regulatory submission services, increasingly augmented with AI/ML tooling. It competes with Saama by integrating clinical data platforms and CDISC-aligned submission services for the same enterprise pharma sponsors.
• Clario: Clario provides clinical trial data and endpoint technology (EDC, eCOA, imaging, cardiac safety) used by pharma and biotech sponsors. It directly competes with Saama in clinical data capture, quality, and submission-grade data management for regulated trials.

Broad incumbents

• IQVIA: IQVIA is the largest life sciences technology and services provider, offering EDC (Orchestrated Clinical Trials), clinical analytics, RWE, and commercial AI. As a broad incumbent, it competes with Saama across clinical data management, biometrics, and commercial operations, often as part of full-service CRO engagements.
• Oracle Health (Clinical One / Cerner): Oracle Clinical One is a unified clinical trial platform covering EDC, RTSM, and clinical data, while Oracle Health (Cerner) addresses provider data. As a broad incumbent with deep pharma enterprise penetration, Oracle competes with Saama in clinical trial data management and is increasingly embedding AI capabilities.

Emerging players

• Tempus AI: Tempus applies AI to multimodal clinical and molecular data, with growing RWE, trial enablement, and clinical decision support offerings. It is an emerging player that intersects with Saama's clinical and RWE solutions and increasingly competes for pharma data and analytics budgets.
• Flatiron Health (Roche): Flatiron builds oncology-specific real-world evidence and clinical data products, owned by Roche. It overlaps with Saama's Real World Evidence and clinical data solutions in oncology trials and RWE generation, with a focus on structured EHR-derived clinical data.
• Mendel: Mendel applies LLMs to structure clinical and biomedical text for pharma R&D and provider workflows. As an emerging player in clinical data structuring and RWE, it is a partial competitor to Saama's patient insights, RWE, and unstructured data capabilities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors9 records

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M&A3 records

Investments

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