OpenCDMS is mature and stable and is used by the UK Mental Health Research Network, the UK Diabetes Research Network and the National Institute of Health Research OpenCDMS has been deployed in a production environment since June 2006 and is a proven, reliable and robust system The philosophy behind openCDMS is to enable clinical researchers to manage the full life cycle of their clinical research project, from design through to archiving, without any specialist knowledge of databases or IT systems The project has received further funding from the and the to develop openCDMS as a complete system for data management of clinical studies and trials