SAN DIEGO, Feb. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – Accelrys, Inc.
(NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation
lifecycle management software, has announced the launch of
ScienceCloud, a new SaaS-based information management and
collaboration workspace. ScienceCloud advances collaborative drug
discovery with a new generation of integrated applications built on
a scalable, cloud-based scientific platform. With no software to
manage and no hardware to maintain, ScienceCloud improves
operational excellence in globally networked research,
significantly reducing IT cost and effort.
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"With externalized R&D collaboration on the rise in the life
sciences, organizations are turning to the cloud as a secure,
scalable, elastic environment for effectively connecting virtual
teams and sharing data, information and knowledge," said
Alan S. Louie, Ph.D., research
director, IDC Health Insights. "Improved business agility, reduced
TCO and anywhere-anytime information access make the cloud an
excellent venue for rolling out a successful collaboration
strategy."
As the next step in Accelrys' externalized collaboration
initiative, ScienceCloud takes secure, real-time transfer of
project data within geographically-dispersed life science research
networks to a new level. ScienceCloud provides project-centered IP
storage in a secure information warehouse and enforces sponsor
business rules on results posted by network partners.
ScienceCloud enhances the virtual workspace with new mobile
applications and tools, allowing project teams to leverage social
communication for building and sharing project information.
The result is a more holistic collaboration strategy for
partnering pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, contract
research organizations (CROs) and academic research teams.
"Today a significant amount of discovery work is done through
partner alliances," said Matt Hahn,
Ph.D., senior vice president and chief technology officer at
Accelrys. "Because of this new business model, life science partner
networks need better ways to connect and collaborate than email,
e-rooms and repurposed legacy systems. ScienceCloud is a flexible
and robust workspace where virtual project teams can securely share
the data and apps they need to drive successful outcomes in a
fast-changing global and mobile research landscape."
ScienceCloud provides applications to upload, process, store,
search and analyze structured and unstructured scientific records
critical for drug discovery projects including biology, chemistry,
analytical, safety and pharmacokinetics data. With ScienceCloud,
scientists can rapidly access research data including experiments,
chemical structures, assays and other test results and are able to
make informed decisions based on the most complete and current
information available. Research managers gain continuous visibility
into projects and the ability to understand the latest results
across all organizations involved. As collaboration networks
evolve, it is easy for sponsoring organizations to quickly spin up
and spin down partner engagements with the data they provide
securely partitioned in the system.
ScienceCloud leverages an open ecosystem of web and
mobile-accessible application capabilities initially including:
- Collaborative Project Management: ScienceCloud
provides secure project management and the ability to share project
information (whether structured data or documents) using a unique
social networking approach to scientific collaboration.
- Experiment and IP Capture: Accelrys Notebook, a
flexible, multi-disciplinary, low-cost-of-ownership electronic lab
notebook empowers sponsor organizations and network partners to
capture and share experimental methods.
- Custom Business Rules Extension: Accelrys Pipeline
Pilot, a scientific workflow authoring application, facilitates the
creation and management of scientific services, implements standard
business rules and enables integration between ScienceCloud and
on-premises systems, allowing data to flow from one environment to
the other.
- Mobile Device Enablement: A mobile iOS application lets
scientists access the ScienceCloud, execute ScienceCloud tasks and
share results with colleagues. An associated Accelrys Pipeline
Pilot Mobile Collection allows developers to build scientific
protocols which can be deployed to mobile devices, leveraging
mobile capabilities such as sound and image capture, location
services, speech-to-text, etc.
- Publishing and Sharing Services: The ScienceCloud
Exchange is an open portal where scientists can publish and share
Accelrys Pipeline Pilot protocols (e.g., reports created from
ScienceCloud data), enhancing broad dissemination of essential
research tools within the ScienceCloud community.
Accelrys is uniquely qualified in the SaaS-based research
informatics market with a proven track record of over ten years
delivering successful cloud offerings including hosted content in
Accelrys DiscoveryGate, Accelrys Notebook Cloud and Accelrys HEOS,
the industry's first CRO partner collaboration platform. Accelrys'
depth of experience in scientific research; long-term vision
of the solutions needed to address today's collaboration
challenges; and strong track record of partnering with customers
make ScienceCloud the ideal solution for the new frontier of
externalized collaborative research.
To learn more about ScienceCloud, please visit ScienceCloud.com.
Register for the complimentary webinar entitled "ScienceCloud, a
cloud solution for externalized, collaborative R&D," scheduled
for Tuesday, February 18,
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PST.
About Accelrys, Inc.
Accelrys (NASDAQ: ACCL), a
leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management
software, supports industries and organizations that rely on
scientific innovation to differentiate themselves. The
industry-leading Accelrys Enterprise Platform provides a broad,
flexible scientific foundation optimized to integrate the diversity
of science, experimental processes and information requirements
across the research, development, QA/QC and manufacturing phases of
product development. Accelrys offers capabilities in scientific
data management, modeling and simulation, research informatics,
laboratory informatics, enterprise quality management,
environmental health & safety and operations intelligence for
customers in science-driven industries. Using Accelrys technology,
scientific innovators can access, organize, analyze and share data
in unprecedented ways across the research, laboratory and
manufacturing continuum, ultimately enhancing innovation, improving
productivity and compliance, reducing costs and accelerating
product development from research to manufacturing.
Accelrys solutions are used by more than 2,000 customers in the
pharmaceutical, biotechnology, energy, chemicals, aerospace,
consumer packaged goods and industrial products industries.
Headquartered in San Diego, CA,
Accelrys employs more than 225 full-time PhD scientists. For more
information about Accelrys, visit www.accelrys.com.
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