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Decision-Ready Market Intelligence for Life Sciences

Ferma is ZoomRx’s AI-powered market intelligence platform built specifically for CI, BD, and Medical Affairs teams. It replaces fragmented, manual workflows with automated, insight-first delivery, so your team spends time on critical thinking, not data collection.
Ferma offers two products: Ferma Congress for real-time medical conference intelligence, and Ferma Agents for next-generation market intelligence.
250
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Conferences Covered Since 2020

17
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Years of Domain Experience

Where Traditional Pharma Intelligence Falls Short

CI, BD, and Medical Affairs teams are caught between two inadequate options: legacy database platforms that require hours of manual extraction, and consulting firms that cannot operate at the speed modern decisions demand. The result is a persistent Action Gap, the delay between when a critical signal occurs and when stakeholders can act on it.
Conference intelligence that arrives too late

Medical conferences generate enormous volumes of data in compressed windows. Traditional solutions either leave all synthesis to the user or take days to return insights after the competitive window has closed.

Competitive intelligence stitched from too many sources

Most CI and BD teams manually reconcile data across Cortellis, GlobalData, Evaluate Pharma, and AlphaSense spending analyst hours on sourcing, not strategy.

Incumbent platforms deliver data, not intelligence

Legacy platforms answer the "what." They leave the "so what" entirely to your team - every time, at every query.

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Ferma

Built for Life Sciences Workflows, Not Generic AI
Ferma is the next generation of market intelligence for life sciences, differentiated by three structural advantages:
Automated Discovery
Automated Discovery
Never Start from a Blank Page

Ferma continuously monitors the life sciences landscape and surfaces signals that matter. It reaches gated and unstructured data sources — live conferences, Chinese pipeline data, pre-clinical intelligence — that incumbent platforms cannot access.

Unparalleled Velocity
Unparalleled Velocity
From Event to Insight in Hours
Ferma compresses the time from event to decision by orders of magnitude. Instant AI-generated summaries are delivered for every session, while complex market queries are answered in seconds, not days.
Workflow-First Outputs
Workflow-First Outputs
Plug-and-Play Ready

Every Ferma output is formatted for immediate use and exportable to PowerPoint, Excel, or Word - designed to slot directly into existing CI, BD, and Medical Affairs processes. This is grounded in ZoomRx's 17 years of pharma domain expertise.

Two Products. One Intelligence Platform.

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AI-Powered Conference Intelligence
Ferma Congress delivers end-to-end conference intelligence across 250+ global conferences in 9 therapeutic areas since 2020 — combining real-time speed, precisely personalized coverage, and the analytical depth that CI, Medical Affairs, SciComm, and BD teams demand. Instant AI-generated summaries of every session, custom-prioritized planners, and a live Q&A module let teams brief leadership as news breaks — without trading depth for speed, or personalization for scale.
 
Built for:
CI · Medical Affairs · SciComm · Publications · Business Development
 
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Next-Gen Market Intelligence
Stop settling for raw data exports and search results that require hours of manual synthesis. Ferma Agents uses purpose-built AI to automate the discovery and delivery of market intelligence, reaching gated and unstructured sources that incumbent platforms miss. Unlike legacy databases, Ferma Agents produces finished, brand-ready deliverables including memos, landscape models, and stakeholder reports delivered directly in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel to slot into your existing workflows.
 
Built for:
CI · Business Development · Portfolio Strategy · NPP · Commercial · Marketing
 

Ferma vs. Traditional Intelligence Approaches

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Traditional Platforms
Speed to Insight Hours to minutes Days to weeks
Data Sources Structured + unstructured + gated (conferences, Chinese pipeline) Structured databases only
Synthesis AI-automated, workflow-ready outputs Manual by analyst
User Access
Unlimited users per organization
Per-seat licensing
Output Format
PowerPoint, Excel, Word — plug-and-play ready
Raw exports, static files
Stakeholder Q&A
Self-serve chat interface — instant answers
Route through analyst queue
Life Sciences Context
Built on 17 years of ZoomRx pharma domain expertise
Generic AI or finance-first heritage

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Qualitative research can help you gather a ton of information… This gives you the low landscape with enough depth that it's not just some flat report.

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Ferma Within the ZoomRx Intelligence Ecosystem

By combining Ferma’s AI-driven market intelligence with ZoomRx’s deep expertise in market research and commercial analytics, pharmaceutical teams gain an end-to-end view of the competitive landscape.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Ferma by ZoomRx?

Ferma is ZoomRx’s AI-powered market intelligence platform for pharma CI, Business Development, and Medical Affairs teams. It offers two products: Ferma Congress (real-time conference intelligence) and Ferma Agents (continuous market intelligence). Both automate discovery and synthesis to deliver decision-ready insights.

What deliverables does Ferma generate?

Unlike legacy platforms that provide raw data, Ferma produces finished, workflow-ready deliverables. This includes AI-generated conference summaries, landscape reports, models, and memos—all exportable to Word, PowerPoint, or Excel for immediate use

 

How is Ferma different from Cortellis, GlobalData, or AlphaSense?

Legacy platforms like Cortellis, GlobalData, and Evaluate Pharma operate primarily as databases delivering structured exports that require manual analysis. They cover only structured sources, refresh at limited cadences, and offer no meaningful workflow integration. Ferma automates the entire market intelligence workflow - discovery from both structured and unstructured sources (including gated conference data and pre-clinical intelligence), synthesizes intelligence automatically, and delivers outputs formatted for immediate use in PowerPoint, Excel, or Word.

What AI tools do pharma CI teams use for conference coverage?

Most CI and Medical Affairs teams rely on manual note-taking or delayed vendor reports for medical conference coverage. Ferma Congress replaces this with instant AI-generated summaries of every session, custom session prioritization planners, and a live question-answering module that allows any team member to query conference data instantly without routing requests through an analyst.

Who is Ferma designed for?

Ferma is built for intelligence-gathering and strategy teams, primarily CI, BD&L, and Medical Affairs. It also supports Portfolio Strategy, NPP, Commercial, and Clinical Ops teams.