Agilent Technologies and Scientific Software have announced an exclusive agreement for Agilent to market, sell and support SSI's Cyberlab enterprise content management system (ECMS)
Agilent will market the product under its new family name - Agilent Cerity - to the pharmaceutical, chemical, petrochemical, forensic, environmental, homeland security, and food and beverage markets.
"The addition of Cyberlab is a key part of our strategy to provide a family of software solutions that address the complete lifecycle of analytical information from data acquisition to knowledge management and retention," said Jim Miller, director of software for Agilent's life sciences and chemical analysis business.
"This will enable scientists to collaborate across laboratory operations, linking information from a wide range of analytical instrumentation and data sources".
Currently used by leading pharmaceutical and chemical companies worldwide, Cyberlab ECMS is a web-based electronic library that collects, organises, indexes, stores, archives and shares electronic records - from raw analytical instrument data and reports to compliance records, MS-Office documents, PDF documents, molecular drawings, pictures and video. Cyberlab automatically extracts searchable metadata from each of the files, and provides powerful search capabilities and embedded viewers for many file types.
As a result, knowledge workers find information faster and make more informed decisions. Agilent's current portfolio of laboratory software includes the Agilent Cerity chromatography data system and ChemStation analytical workstations, which are used to acquire, process and report data from analytical instruments.
Agilent has also established a series of application integrations that provide open and seamless interfaces to enterprise resource planning (ERP) and laboratory information management systems (Lims).
With the addition of Cyberlab, Agilent can provide customers with a portfolio of software for information management in the laboratory and beyond.
"With a reputation for outstanding customer service and knowledge of laboratory operation and informatics that spans the instrument-to-enterprise level, Agilent is an ideal partner for SSI," said Soheil Saadat, president and CEO of Scientific Software.
"We are excited that Cyberlab will now be more accessible to Agilent's 22,000 life science and chemical customers worldwide, and we are fully committed to satisfying the needs of current and future customers together with Agilent as a strategic channel partner".
Existing and new Cyberlab customers will benefit from extended support, worldwide consulting and validation services from Agilent as a single-source provider.
Under the agreement, Scientific Software maintains intellectual property rights to Cyberlab ECMS and will continue to focus on new product development as well as work with technology partners to develop integrations with enterprise applications such as eNotebook, Lims, ERP and established vendors of analytical instrumentation.
