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IDBS Acquires InforSense to Provide End-to-End
Solutions for Research & Development Data Management
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Guildford, UK, June 26, 2009 - IDBS, a leading provider of innovative data
management solutions to multinational R&D organizations, today announced that it
has concluded an unconditional agreement to acquire InforSense Ltd (InforSense),
a company providing award-winning scientific and business intelligence (BI)
technologies, in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition will complete in July.
R&D organizations in the public and private sectors rely upon their ability to
capture, integrate and interpret their data. This is increasingly hampered by
the explosion in volume and diversity of data available to scientists, the
global scale of modern R&D activities and the requirement for data to be
accessed and searched in context. InforSense’s rapid data integration
technologies and web-based interactive analytics perfectly complement IDBS’
strong suite of secure, context-rich data management solutions. This transaction
creates a unique supplier who can deliver the entire capture, integration and
decision-making infrastructure for R&D organizations worldwide.
With the addition of the InforSense product portfolio, IDBS will expand its
large scale data integration activities to support international data sharing
and broaden its life sciences portfolio into the emerging growth area of
biomarker development and personalized medicine. The InforSense brand, its
products and partnerships will continue to be vigorously developed, marketed and
supported around the world.
IDBS, a private company headquartered in the UK and with offices worldwide,
provides a range of scalable, secure and searchable data management solutions
that support the collection, integration and retrieval of high value data. IDBS’
solutions are designed to manage highly diverse scientific data and processes,
and are deployed to a broad customer base across a wide range of sectors
including; life sciences, academia, consumer products, material sciences, food
technology and energy; they are also used within regulated environments in both
pharmaceuticals and manufacturing. IDBS’ solutions provide rigorous data storage
and promote the collection of contextual data, which is required to make
scientific data relevant and comparable. The company is a trusted partner of
large multinational R&D companies and has been the regular recipient of numerous
awards, including the Queen’s Award for Enterprise and Innovation.
InforSense is a private company with offices in London (UK), Boston (USA) and
Shanghai (PRC), and was founded in 1999 to develop and commercialize pioneering
technology in the fields of high performance computing, and large scale data
mining, originally developed at Imperial College, London. InforSense’s core
expertise lies in the development of high performance business and scientific
intelligence and in web-based reporting applications that are highly
differentiated from standard BI tools by their capacity, rapid implementation
and configurability. InforSense applications provide the framework for
integrating data from an extremely broad range of data sources, for many
multinational organizations from pharmaceuticals to finance. InforSense has also
developed state of the art applications to integrate genomics, biomarker and
clinical data, that provide a unique offering to researchers in the developing
areas of translational and personalized medicine. InforSense’s founder,
Professor Yike Guo will take up the role of Chief Innovation Officer at IDBS.
Neil Kipling, CEO and founder of IDBS said, “IDBS has a powerful vision to
provide complete data infrastructures for R&D organizations in commercial and
academic endeavour. Our existing domain expertise and twenty-year track record
is enhanced by the acquisition of InforSense, whose leadership and technologies
are globally recognized. This is a major enabling step towards becoming the
number one informatics partner of R&D worldwide. An additional facet of this
acquisition is the opportunity to cement a strategic informatics research
relationship with Imperial College. The combination of our rigorous software
development and powerful new research capabilities creates a groundbreaking new
organization.”
Mr John O’Connell, Chairman of InforSense said, “As Chairman I am delighted to
see InforSense become part of a visionary software company with proven expertise
in the life sciences domain. The market can only react positively to the
emergence of the first single end-to-end R&D informatics solution provider. This
acquisition has been enabled by the vision and commitment of founder and CTO,
Professor Yike Guo, and by the strong leadership of our management team, under
our CEO David Bennett, and is good news for InforSense customers, shareholders
and staff".
This announcement comes shortly after IDBS announced the agreement with the
University of Cambridge (UK) under which IDBS is to provide data management
solutions to the Department of Chemistry, to improve data sharing across its
broad network of academic groups in the UK and elsewhere, and marks the start of
an ongoing informatics collaboration that will provide leading-edge technologies
for commercialization.
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About IDBS
IDBS is a trusted provider of integrated data management software and service
solutions to both the life science and non-life science industries. The
company's ActivityBase and E-WorkBook Suites provide gold standard chemistry and
biology data support from target validation to GxP validated phases of the R&D
process. The company supports long term relationships with the leading research
organizations, maximizing the value of research data by enabling the capture,
storage, sharing and use of data, while protecting intellectual property across
the spectrum of research activities.
Headquartered in Guildford, UK, IDBS has worldwide coverage, with U.S. offices
in California, New Jersey and Massachusetts, consultancy teams across Europe and
a network which delivers IDBS products and advisory services across
Asia-Pacific. Founded in 1989, IDBS employs more than 170 people worldwide. For
more information, please visit:
www.idbs.com .
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Tel: +44 (0)1483 595010 Email:
cmolloy@idbs.com
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