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Premier Consulting is a strategic product development and global regulatory consulting brand dedicated to supporting the specialized needs of emerging biotech, MedTech, and specialty pharma companies. These small to midsize companies are the very heart of drug development. Like them, we are dedicated to the patient journey and are driven by the challenges of bringing new life-saving technologies to market. Informed by our core capabilities, we deliver end-to-end strategy, regulatory, nonclinical, CMC, quality, and commercial solutions that are best in class. With a customer-centric culture, we couple efficiency with quality as we guide sponsors every step of the way to commercialization. We tailor development plans to meet the most rigorous global regulatory requirements and deliver results for sponsors - and the patients they serve. Premier Consulting is a business unit of Premier Research.

You cannot modernize what nobody can describe. Before you migrate, rewrite, or point AI at forty years of COBOL, somebody has to know exactly what is in there. That is what we do, and it is all we do. Benchmark builds one complete, precise, standards-based model of a legacy estate: every program, batch job, transaction, file and database, the data between them, and the business rules buried inside them. COBOL, JCL and CICS are read together, as one system rather than three separate inventories. The model is structured on ISO/IEC 19506, the Knowledge Discovery Metamodel published by the Object Management Group. We did not invent it and we do not control it, so what you receive is a description of your own systems in a documented, published form. Your team can read it and your migration partner can consume it. No proprietary format, so no format lock-in. Every element carries a reference back to the line of source it came from, so anything the model tells you can be traced and audited. Why this matters now. Every AI coding tool depends on a language server to tell it what is actually true about the code. COBOL never got one. That absence is why AI-assisted mainframe work keeps producing output that looks right and fails late. We build what that missing layer would produce. Engagements: estate assessment, migration readiness, business rule recovery, data lineage, Datacom conversion, cloud porting. Work runs in our own hosted environment or, where source code cannot leave your building, on a server inside your environment over VPN. Clients in banking, insurance, financial services, healthcare, transportation and the public sector. Benchmark is also the maker of IRIS Business Architect, a business and enterprise architecture platform with its own home at biz-architect.com. The belief underneath both is the same: you cannot change a system safely until somebody can describe it precisely. IRIS describes the business. This describes the code the business runs on.

We believe that competitive advantage emerges when the right expertise meets the right opportunity. It’s not just about filling vacancies – it’s about finding the people who will shape the future of your business. Our mission is to bring together talent and organisations in a way that drives meaningful change, sparks innovation, and builds enduring success. With decades of experience across our specialist sectors, we partner with our clients to understand their goals and deliver exceptional talent who share their vision. From retail to technology, and beyond, we know that the best teams are built on trust, collaboration, and a deep understanding of the industry landscape. We don’t just believe in possibilities – we make them happen. Whether it’s driving digital transformation or leading finance and strategy functions, our team is committed to turning potential into performance. By harnessing our deep industry networks which we work hard to maintain, we provide the people and solutions that empower businesses to thrive. Because at The Consultancy Group, success is more than a result – it’s a journey we take together, every step of the way.