Boehringer Ingelheim has chosen Advanced Chemistry Development, (ACD/Labs) to provide them with an enterprise-wide integrated analytical data management system
ACD/Labs's global spectroscopic processing and data management software, SpecManager SQL, will be implemented at Boehringer Ingelheim's research and development facilities in Vienna, Ingelheim, and Biberach, providing each location with the tools necessary to access, process, organise, and manage various types of experimental data through a single interface. SpecManager is described as a powerful yet simple-to-use tool for storing and managing various types of experimental spectra and chromatograms, as well as any related information.
Its central database module, SpecDB, is paired with processing modules for various analytical techniques, including the NMR, MS, UV-IR, and chromatography modules chosen by Boehringer Ingelheim.
Together, the SpecManager suite of products will work seamlessly as one comprehensive module, providing more information and greater capabilities then would be provided by the simple sum of its parts.
SpecManager SQL will add Oracle-based client-server architecture to Boehringer Ingelheim's SpecManager modules, enabling several users to work with the same database simultaneously, and ensuring the seamless integration of analytical data and results from Boehringer Ingelheim's various research and development facilities.
One of the major factors in Boehringer Ingelheim's decision to implement SpecManager SQL was this ability to share data across different sites in a consistent file format.
Boehringer Ingelheim will also benefit from the ability to use previously purchased ACD/Labs software for systematic naming and physicochemical property prediction from within the SpecManager interface, enabling users to generate names and calculate physicochemical properties for the structures attached to each database record.
Andreas Ding, Department of Analytics at BI's Biberach, Germany facility, states: "The integration of the ACD/Labs software into our workflow has given us the functionality of a modern enterprise wide analytical data management system.
"This allows us to handle various analytical data and results in an efficient way, and grants us the ability to instantly share this know-ledge enterprise-wide.
"In the field of spectral verification and structure elucidation, we have taken the first step into automated spectra verification and computer assistant structure elucidation (Case)".
