CEO & Chairman Jim Walker of Octagon Research Solutions, Inc., a pioneer and leading provider of breakthrough software and services to the life sciences industry, announced today that Brian Shilling, senior manager, Clinical Programming, Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. received an Award of Excellence within the Technical Publications Competition from the Society of Technical Communication (STC), Carolina Chapter. This award honored his book entitled, Validating Clinical Trial Data Reporting with SAS®, which was co-authored with Carol I. Matthews and published in conjunction with SAS Press, a unit of business analytics software leader SAS Institute Inc.