Medidata Solutions, Inc. provides cloud based solutions for life sciences for customer's clinical development processes including concept, conclusion, research optimization, and development investments. Its cloud-based technology including its unified platform, pioneering analytics, and clinical technology allows the development of new therapies pharmaceutical companies, biotech, and medical device firms, academic medical centers and contract research organizations around the world. It operates through the following geographical segments: United States, Japan, and Other. The company was founded by Glen M. de Vries, Edward F. Ikeguchi and Tarek A. Sherif in June 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.