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Could you give me a two-minute crash course on the litigation between Veeva and IQVIA? How far back does this go, and how do you frame the issue?

Yes, that's a good question. I'll try to do my best not to take up too much time. CRM is what field sales reps use to track how much of a drug they were using, according to IQVIA data. Peter mentioned that the IQVIA lawsuit stated that while you can use your data for field sales reps, any other data derived, such as metadata or derivative data from the IQVIA data, cannot be used. For example, if you wanted to aggregate data and draw a connection, such as if a field sales rep called on a doctor five times and then you wanted to correlate the performance of the Rx with that to show trended graphs, IQVIA says no. That data does not belong to you; you cannot connect that data with rep activity. Those have to stay separate; they are firewalled. This is critically useful information for the reps to show that their activity had a direct impact, and I can marry that up together. No, you have to keep those separate.

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