Table 1.

Comparison of EDC systems

EDC system	Oracle clinical	InForm	Rave	DADOS P	Openclinical
Type (Commercial/Open source)	Commercial	Commercial	Commercial	Open source	Open source
Vendor	Oracle	Phase Forward	Medidata solutions	Research on Research group	Akaza Research
Features	A core component of an eClinical suite that integrates adverse event report reporting, thesaurus management, trial management and remote data capture features	It has separate EDC and CDMS databases	It has a single platform that supports both EDC and CDMS	EDC platform	A single platform that has both EDC and CDMS
License	Paid	Paid	Paid	GNU GPL	GNU LGPL
Safety reports	Y	Y	Y	N	N
Standards	Y	Y	Y	Can be added	Y
Security (21 CFR Part 11)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Data import/export	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y