2010 Sponsors

Agilent Technologies is a leading supplier of life science technologies, providing solutions for gene expression, proteomics, metabolomics and informatics that optimize sensitivity and workflow productivity. Key products include: whole genome and custom microarrays, scanners; HPLC, LC/MS/MS and HPLC-Chip/MS; ion trap and TOF mass spectrometers; lab-on-a-chip products; reagents; and data analysis software.

As a leading provider of whole genome and custom microarrays technology, scanners, lab-on-a-chip products and reagents, Agilent Technologies is helping to solve the challenging questions posed by the world’s leading research organizers. For more Information about Agilent visit the website.

Website: www.home.agilent.com

IDBS is a leading provider of advanced software solutions. We enable research, development and manufacturing organisations to capture, store, share and use their data, generating corporate knowledge by making the right information available to the right person at the right time. Using IDBS' applications, researchers can easily access, visualize and analyze information throughout an entire organization, allowing easy communication and faster more accurate processing of information. IDBS' applications are integrated data management, analysis and decision-making products used across industries to acquire, manage and use research data. Founded in 1989 by Neil Kipling, IDBS solutions have become the industry standard for managing both biological and chemical data in the drug discovery industry. IDBS' products are the chosen solutions for scientists at more than 150 leading discovery research companies. IDBS' customers include the world's leading pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies, as well as leading organizations in the cosmetics, food and beverage and manufacturing support industries.

Website: www.idbs.com/

quattro research addresses the needs of life science and chemical industry by providing state-of-the-art solutions to manage all scientific data produced in research projects. Our applications help scientists to optimise the value of their research data, e.g. the electronic lab notebook quattro/LJ or the compound management solution quattro/CM, quattro research offers software and consulting services to build and integrate heterogeneous data sources and applications, such as compound registration, HTS, LIMS or SAP, into efficient and user friendly data management platforms.

Website: www.quattro-research.com

With over 25 years of experience, LabVantage Solutions, Inc., is an innovative global provider of enterprise solutions tailored for leading laboratories. We serve discovery, development, formulation, process research, raw materials testing, and quality management laboratories across multiple industries, including:

• Pharma & Biosciences
• Health & Personal Care
• Food & Beverage
• Contract Services
• Petrochemicals
• Process Chemicals
• Parts Hardware & Equipment

As a result of our ongoing success, LabVantage continues to grow its employee and partner base, broadening its international presence throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Regardless of the region that our employees and partners serve, they have all adopted our highly celebrated practice of "ONE TEAM. ONE VISION. WORLD CLASS CUSTOMER SERVICE." This focused mantra marks our commitment to enhance customer service and continually improve our quality processes by reviewing customer feedback and other organizational metrics.

Website: www.labvantage.com

VelQuest's award winning SmartLab GMP Electronic Notebook System, eliminates today's Analytical Development and QC paperwork; replacing it with automated analytical test method execution and electronic data capture with their Instrument Data System (IDS) that is used to create a best-practice, high quality paradigm, standardizing laboratory operations across the enterprise.

All instruments and external systems (i.e. LIMS, CDS, ERP) are integrated to SmartLab. VelQuest's solutions are shown to reduce cycle times by over 50% and labor costs by 25% compared to manual, paper processes. Customers include AZ, BMS, GSK, Eli Lilly, J&J, and many more.

Website: www.velquest.com

Symyx enables companies in life sciences, chemicals and energy, and consumer and industrial products to achieve extraordinary breakthroughs in productivity and return on investment through information-driven R&D. Symyx electronic laboratory notebook, data acquisition and decision support software, scientific information, and hosted informatics offerings give scientists immediate access to personal, laboratory, enterprise, proprietary, and third-party information across different projects and platforms. This enables individual scientists, project groups, and global virtual teams to collaborate more effectively as they design, execute, analyze, and report on experimental results faster, more easily, and less expensively. For more information, visit:

• Electronic Laboratory Notebooks
• Decision Support Software
• Symyx Databases
• Hosted Services

Website: www.symyx.com/products/software/
Email: inforequest@symyx.com

JMP is a software product from SAS, the worlds largest privately held software company. Through visual analytics, JMP enables a greater proportion of users to quickly and effectively solve problems based on data. Visual Analytics simplifies data analysis processes, is easy to learn and use, and enables a broader spectrum of technical and business users to gain insight into their processes.

Contact: Adrian Turner
Address: JMP Division, SAS Institute, Wittington House, Henley
Road, Medmenham, Marlow, SL7 2EB, UK
Website: www.jmp.com

LabWare LIMS is the world’s best selling LIMS product used in more than 65 countries worldwide. LabWare LIMS includes built-in instrument data acquisition and an extensive library of “out-of-the-box” features, functions and modules delivering real business advantage for LabWare’s customers. An increasing number of these customers are standardizing on LabWare for their global, enterprise-wide laboratory automation platform. In addition, LabWare provides industry specific, pre-configured templates to fast-track installations and reduce system validation effort. LabWare has invested in providing a truly global support network backed by some of the most experienced LIMS professionals in the world.

Website: www.labware.com

Siemens, your Solution Partner in the Pharmaceutical Industry Siemens is a leading supplier to manufacturers in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Our broad and innovative product portfolio includes IT products and solutions to address the key issues of the pharmaceutical industry and improve your business. We offer state-of-the-art solutions for the lab and manufacturing environment, such as LIMS, ELN, R&D management system and a PAT software solution, and integrate these into strategic, long-term and comprehensive concepts to benefit your business worldwide. You can equally rely on Siemens for dedicated services and competencies to achieve a multidisciplinary optimization approach throughout your enterprise.

Website: www.siemens.com/industrial-it

Lodestone Management Consultants
Website: www.lodestonemc.com

Lodestone Management Consultants is a global management consultancy, committed to designing and delivering solutions that enable international companies to thrive in today’s complex business environment.

The company helps its clients to define the measurable business benefits that will be achieved together, using teams of client-focused consultants, who combine a passion for excellence with strong process and SAP skills and deep experience of transformational change in their industry. As an independent consulting firm, Lodestone offers a variety services such as Strategy & Business Process Consulting, Solution Definition Consulting, Solution Implementation, and IT Transformation Consulting.

More information on Lodestone, its history, services and people can be found at www.lodestonemc.com

Waters

Waters helps laboratory-dependent organizations by providing breakthrough technologies and solutions. Pioneering a connected portfolio of separation and analytical science, laboratory informatics and mass spectrometry, Waters provides the tools to improve the quality of today’s science and explore the infinite possibilities of tomorrow’s.

Waters Laboratory informatics suite of products bridges all instruments, data sources, and information centers. Our solutions capture, catalog, and make all scientific content accessible, from chromatograms to spectra; from the inception of your top innovators’ ideas, to development of new products.

By improving the availability of critical information, Waters Laboratory Informatics connects science to business, providing the foundation for a decision centric workflow that will increase productivity and profitability for your organization.

Website: www.waters.com

Biomax

Biomax provides computational solutions for better decision making and knowledge management in the life science industry. Our flexible and comprehensive solutions provide access to relevant knowledge at the right time and in the right context. Biomax helps customers generate value from proprietary and public resources by extracting the knowledge indispensable for efficient data exploration and interpretation. Biomax focuses on integrating information to enable a knowledge-based approach to develop innovative life science products.

Website: www.biomax.com

Dionex

Dionex is a leading manufacturer and marketer of liquid chromatography and sample preparation systems, accessories and consumables, and software products for chemical and life sciences applications. Dionex is the only separations science company that provides application solutions ranging from the identification and measurement of inorganic and organic ions, small organic molecules, as well as large biomolecules. The company's systems are used worldwide in environmental analysis, life science and pharmaceutical research and development, as well as in chemical, food and beverage manufacturing, and other industries.

The company’s software products are used by many of the major pharmaceutical companies worldwide to control all their chromatography instruments (GC, HPLC, and IC) and help ensure compliance with industry requirements such as GxP and 21 CFR Part 11.

For more information about solutions from Dionex see www.dionex.com.

Website: www.Dionex.com

"CambridgeSoft Corporation is a leading supplier of discovery, collaboration, and knowledge enterprise solutions, desktop software, scientific databases and consulting services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries. The Company provides:

Enterprise solutions, desktop software, scientific databases, and professional services for biotechnology, drug discovery and chemical research, including software, databases, and web sites which enable customers to create, analyze and communicate chemical, biological, and scientific information more effectively.

CambridgeSoft's products are used primarily in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries, as well as in higher education and in academic and government research. The company's principal software offering, Chem & Bio Office, which includes Chem & Bio Draw, is the de facto standard and primary communication tool on the chemist's desktop. Chem & Bio Office Enterprise, an enterprise implementation of Chem & Bio Office desktop, enables research information organizations to deploy applications and information solutions using Internet, intranet, and extranet technologies."

Contact:

CS Europe
1 Signet Court
Swanns Road
Cambridge CB5 8LA UK

Tel: +44 1223 464900
Fax: +44 1223 464990
Email: info@eu.cambridgesoft.com
Website: www.cambridgesoft.com

The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd
Website: www.edge-ka.com

The Edge is a leading provider of knowledge-based software and services to the pharmaceutical industry. The company’s premier platform BioRails provides a complete web-enabled solution for biological research and development covering flexible data management and ELN. The Edge specialise in bridging the gap between science and IT, delivering solutions and services that focus on recovering one day per week per scientist. These modern integrative solutions require less IT effort and empower scientists to be self-sufficient whilst maintaining enterprise data standards. The Edge customer’s include leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies from across the globe.

Phone: +44 (0)1483 300108
Fax: +44 (0) 8715 210018
Email: info@edge-ka.com

ChemAxon is a leader in providing chemical software development platforms for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. By focusing upon active interaction with users and core portability, ChemAxon creates leading edge cross platform solutions to power modern cheminformatics and chemical communication.

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Our products and services include application programming interfaces (API) and end user applications for structure visualization and management, property prediction, virtual synthesis, screening and drug design.

Maintaining portability among various operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, ...) and relevance for web based integration is of vital importance in our development.

Besides the provision of our software, we work with our partners on large-scale projects resulting in custom tailored solutions in the areas of company specific database tools, intranet and front end solutions.

In the non-commercial sphere, in addition to providing some functionality free to everyone, we advance the development of cheminformatics through free provision and support for academic teaching and research and for publically available/non commercial websites.

Technology used by ChemAxon: Java for system development, HTML/XML and .NET for web intefaces, OLE to enable seamless integration with desktop applications and JDBC for communication with SQL database systems for data storage and handling.

Nexxis ELN from Labtronics Inc is a web-based electronic laboratory notebook for routine analyses that replaces paper-based systems with on-line electronic documents and forms that provide an unprecedented level of automation, control and integration over routine procedures.

Laboratory instruments and informatics systems can be fully integrated with Nexxis ELN to deliver all of the information that analysts need, right when they need it most – at the time of analysis.

Nexxis ELN incorporates ReDI™, the fastest electronic form deployment technology available, to give laboratories an “instant implementation” solution that gets them right to the benefits of going paperless.

Website: www.labtronics.com