INFORSENSE ANNOUNCE ORACLE EDITION OF LEADING OPEN DISCOVERY WORKFLOW SOFTWARE

InforSense Integrate Oracle® Database 10g Analytic Features into Kensington Discovery Platform

London, UK, September 10 2003 - InforSense Ltd, a leading provider of informatics solutions for streamlining life science research, today announced upcoming support for Oracle® Database 10g. As a participant in the Oracle Database 10g Beta Program, InforSense has integrated Oracle Data Mining and Oracle Text features into their innovative Open Discovery Workflow technology. This powerful combination enables researchers to build intuitive and flexible in silico discovery workflows that exploit the power of the industry-leading Oracle database. 

The integration of the Kensington Discovery Platform with Oracle Database 10g adds novel functionality and enhanced performance for users of Kensington and Oracle. Researchers can now combine Kensington's powerful workflow engine and analytics with advanced data and text analysis functions provided by ODM, including BLAST. Kensington analytics include data and text mining, statistics, predictive modelling, visualization and reporting. In addition, Kensington enables the process knowledge from a workflow to be captured, so that the valuable IP of the process can be reused. Based on the grid computing capability of Oracle Database 10g, the integrated solution offers an ideal platform for developing next generation infrastructure for enterprise wide discovery informatics.

"Empowered by Oracle Database 10g, InforSense's Open Discovery Workflow technology has its most powerful execution engine", commented Prof. Yike Guo, CEO of InforSense. "Using InforSense's discovery workflows built upon Oracle's data mining, text mining and R&D database functionality, researchers and organizations can now automate large scale and complex knowledge discovery activities with high performance and reliability."

"Integrating Kensington Discovery Platform with Oracle Database 10g provides life science researchers with a flexible workflow solution for the intuitive integration of analytics from InforSense and Oracle”, said Dr. Susie Stephens, Life Sciences Product Manager, Oracle Corporation.   

About InforSense

InforSense Ltd. is a leading provider of discovery informatics software and services for the life science industry.  Its expertise is in the development of high performance Open Discovery Workflow systems, which combine flexible process and knowledge management with large-scale data mining, analysis and visualization.

InforSense customers include major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as academic research institutions.

About Kensington Discovery Edition

InforSense's flagship product Kensington Discovery Edition™ is an advanced informatics environment designed to support large-scale information-driven discovery in life sciences. To learn more, please visit www.inforsense.com."

About Oracle Database 10g

Oracle Database 10g is designed to handle a wide variety of workloads from small servers to server clusters and enterprise grid configurations, and features automated tuning and management capabilities that make it easy and cost effective to operate.  Its unique ability to natively store business transactions, XML documents, spatial and location information and a myriad of other information types makes it the ideal choice to power Online Transaction Processing applications, Data Warehouses and Content Management systems.

About the Oracle PartnerNetwork – Member

The Oracle PartnerNetwork is a global business network of more than 12,000 companies who deliver innovative enterprise software solutions based on Oracle software. Through access to Oracle's premier products, education, technical services, marketing and sales support, the Oracle PartnerNetwork provides partners with the resources they need to be successful in today's Internet economy. Oracle partners are able to offer customers leading-edge solutions backed by Oracle's position as the world's largest enterprise software company.

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For more information please contact:

Dr. Judith Bandy              
InforSense Ltd

+44 (20) 7594 7927