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Bayer Selects InforSense for
Next Generation Integrative Analytics Infrastructure
InforSense KDE to Provide Workflow-based
Cheminformatics Platform
London, UK and Cambridge, MA, USA, September
8, 2005 - InforSense Ltd, the leader in integrative analytics platforms,
today announced that Bayer Healthcare AG, a member of the Bayer Group (NYSE:
BAY), has selected InforSense technology to enhance their drug discovery
informatics infrastructure. InforSense’s workflow-based integrative analytics
environment, InforSense KDE, will provide Bayer with a highly flexible rapid
application development platform to optimize their drug discovery
decision-making. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
“To identify and optimize potential drug leads, Bayer’s chemists need both rapid
processing of large compound libraries via chemical cartridge technology coupled
with easy access to best of breed proprietary and third party analytic tools and
visualizations,” said Dr. Alexander Hillisch, Head of Computational Chemistry at
Bayer Healthcare AG. “InforSense Open Discovery Workflow™ technology offers the
appropriate environment for rapidly composing data and applications, including
our in-house in silico ADMET tools, to optimize our high-throughput
cheminformatics analysis.”
"We are delighted that Bayer has chosen InforSense," commented Joseph F.
Donahue, Chief Business Officer, InforSense. "InforSense KDE will facilitate the
composition, integration and deployment of a wide range of cheminformatics
applications by giving Bayer’s computational chemists access to their chosen set
of tools via cutting-edge workflow technology."
About Bayer Healthcare
Bayer HealthCare AG, a subsidiary of Bayer AG, is one of the world’s leading,
innovative companies in the health care and medical products industry. In 2004,
the Bayer HealthCare subgroup generated sales amounting to some 8.5 billion
Euro.
The company combines the global activities of the divisions Animal Health,
Biological Products, Consumer Care, Diabetes Care, Diagnostics and
Pharmaceuticals. Bayer HealthCare employed 35,300 people worldwide in 2004.
Bayer HealthCare’s aim is to discover and manufacture innovative products that
will improve human and animal health worldwide. The products enhance well-being
and quality of life by diagnosing, preventing and treating disease.
About InforSense
InforSense Limited, the leader in integrative analytics, enables
organizations to orchestrate and optimize their business-critical
decision-making processes. Leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies,
financial services companies, and research institutes are using the company’s
flagship product, InforSense KDE, to enhance productivity across life science
R&D, healthcare and business analytics. The company is privately held, with
European headquarters in London, UK and North American headquarters in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
About InforSense KDE
Using InforSense KDE, enterprises rapidly integrate and deliver virtually
any data source, analytic software tool, service or application within a single
informatics framework. Users link these components via visual workflows to
dynamically answer any question using their data, however complex or transient.
Organizations can also mine their analytical processes to discover and deploy
expertise and best practices. InforSense KDE provides an open, extensible
service-oriented architecture, built using industry standards including J2EE,
XML, and WSDL. The InforSense Oracle Edition is a state-of–the-art solution for
enterprise-wide integrative analytics using Oracle’s advanced information
management and processing capabilities.
For further information on InforSense products and solutions, visit
www.inforsense.com
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For more information please contact:
Dr. Judith Bandy
InforSense Ltd
+44 (20) 7808 9500
jbandy@inforsense.com
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