Medidata Solutions, Inc. provides cloud-based solutions for life sciences worldwide. It offers the Medidata Clinical Cloud, a platform, pioneering analytics, and clinical technology for the development and commercialization of new therapies. The company's platform solutions include data capture and management, and trial planning and management. It also provides professional services, such as implementation, sponsor enablement, strategic consulting, partner support, and e-learning and training. The company markets and sells its cloud-based solutions through a direct sales force and through relationships with channel and strategic partners. It serves pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics companies; academic research centers, government, and other non-profit organizations; and other non-profit organizations; and contract research organizations and other entities engaged in clinical trials. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, New York.