Compare Castor EDC and RealTime-CTMS - Apr 2021

Shlomi Lavi

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Castor EDC or RealTime-CTMS?

RealTime-CTMS is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Castor EDC, and RealTime-CTMS is rated higher (62/100) than Castor EDC (50/100).

Looking for the right Clinical Trial Management solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

Ciwit B.V. Vs. RealTime-CTMS

Ciwit B.V.: Our goal is to accelerate medical research by unlocking the potential of every byte of research data.When he graduated in 2011, Derk Arts (MD, PhD and epidemiologist) discovered that there was no decent application for simple and affordable data management. He decided to found Ciwit, and developed the first version of Castor EDC himself. Now, Ciwi...

RealTime-CTMS: RealTime was built by sites for sites! That's right... CRCs, regulatory specialists, recruitment specialists, business development personnel, sites directors, even investigators have helped us build a tool that makes everyone's job more efficient and brings the entire site together. RealTime does everything that other systems do (and more), but Rea...

Who is more expensive? Castor EDC or RealTime-CTMS?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Clinical Trial Management software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Castor EDC and RealTime-CTMS.

Castor EDC price starts at $349 per year , On a scale between 1 to 10 Castor EDC is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Clinical Trial Management software. RealTime-CTMS price starts at $295 per user/month , When comparing RealTime-CTMS to its competitors, the software is rated 4 - lower than the average Clinical Trial Management software cost.

Bottom line: RealTime-CTMS is more expensive than Castor EDC.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Castor EDC Vs. RealTime-CTMS based on some of the most important and required Clinical Trial Management features.

Castor EDC: We are still working to collect the list of features for Castor EDC.

RealTime-CTMS: We are still working to collect the list of features for RealTime-CTMS.

Target customer size

The usual customers of Castor EDC are the individuals who have small (with 10 to 100 employees) and/or medium-sized (with 100 to 1,000 employees) businesses that harness the services from IT, web and data hosting and other related information services, mainly with IT management, and audit management. and RealTime-CTMS's target customer size include: SMBs.