News Release: EPS Corporation(4282 TSE 1st section)
December 10, 2013

The Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd. business partnership for
IT solutions in pharmaceutical company post-marketing surveillance

In the following we inform that our company (hereafter "EPS"), along with e-Trial Co., Ltd. (hereafter"ETR"), the consolidated subsidiary of this company, makes a business partnership for IT solutions inpharmaceutical company post-marketing surveillance with Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd. (hereafter "HPJapan"), the Japan corporate body belonging to Hewlett Packard Company, the world's largest ITcorporation, according to the following statements.

1. Cooperation background
It is necessary to make appropriate data management regarding post-marketing surveillance (PMS) for
pharmaceutical company business. The results are submitted for a re-examination. Also, In order tocomply with the requirements, the business records as well as progress management must be executed
accurately, in accordance with regulatory requirements.
In that kind of circumstances, EPS, having achievements in drug development, PMS, clinical research
field and other achievements in CRO commissioned businesses, as well as years of experience, gives
support to the pharmaceutical company. Moreover, ETR aims to increase the efficiency in clinical trials,
PMS and clinical research field using IT and offers services through EDC, IWRS and other eClinicalsolutions for clinical trial and post-marketing survey data management.
HP Japan has achievements and years of experience in safe information management/PMS forpharmaceutical products research and development and as well as systems for other fields. In PMS
related realm, HP Japan has provided re-examination business support systems, ClinicalWorks5/PMS.
With IT development in pharmaceutical industry, the demands are increased in providing timely
information for data management solutions and business progress management solutions for bothcompanies.

2. Partnership contents
In this background, HP Japan improves and facilitates the software for EPS and ETR and implements a
timely data coordination demanded by pharmaceutical businesses. With the collaboration between those
three companies we aim to find solution to increase the sales.

2.1 Implementing the data coordination function (Development partnership agreement)
ETR signed a development partnership agreement with HP Japan which implements the ability totransfer data mutually between E-DMS Online (ETR) and ClinicalWorks5/PMS (HP Japan)
automatically and at fixed intervals.
By this data coordination, the data regarding facilities contracts and participating institutions stored in
ClinicalWorks5/PMS is transmitted automatically to E-DMS Online at fixed intervals. The data storedon E-DMS Online, which is data regarding registered medical cases, questionnaires collection and otherdata that is underway, is transmitted automatically to ClinicalWorks5/PMS at fixed intervals. In
addition, because manual data delivering and receiving it is not necessary, according to the progressmanagement stated in agreement, overall management for medical case data at fixed intervals isallowed. By planning a streamline process, PMS functions are prompt, efficient and stable, and this canincrease the reliability and quality.

2.2 The structure of sales cooperation system (Sales partnership agreement)
So far, EPS research service that uses IT have made efforts to improve the reliability and quality byusing EDC systems and optimizing PMS procedures. EPS signed a sales collaboration agreement withHP Japan. EPS suggests and sales IT total solutions for PMS and other contract research services,along with EDC&PMS business support system.
Information (prior notice)
As part of the sales cooperation between EPS and HP Japan, a seminar will be held at
the beginning of March 2014. This seminar will feature the EDC system and reexamination of HP Japan business support system for EPS/ETR's PMS. We will give
more detailed information about this seminar in the near future.

3. Business partner overview
Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd.
Head office address Oshima 2-Chome 2-1, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Founded1963 (38th year of Showa)(Yokogawa-Hewlett-Packard, Ltd. establishment)

Capital10 billion yen

Employees

5000 (as of April 2013)

Main business

Develops, manufactures, imports, sales and leases computers, computer
peripherals and software products; IT services