InforSense joins the MDL Isentris Alliance, and its InforSense KDE product is to be integrated with the MDL Isentris platform; the companies are to explore further strategic development initiatives
InforSense and Elsevier MDL have announced an expanded strategic relationship to integrate the new-generation MDL Isentris informatics platform and the InforSense KDE workflow-based integrative analytics platform, and to explore further joint development initiatives.
The collaboration will enable scientists in the life sciences to use information and knowledge more effectively in decision-making in order to enhance R and D productivity.
"For life scientists, informatics tools that work together offer clear promise for improving R and D productivity," said Lars Barfod, CEO of Elsevier MDL.
"Through our expanded partnership under the MDL Isentris Alliance, InforSense and Elsevier MDL will provide mutual customers with built-in compatibility between the powerful Isentris informatics foundation and the dynamic InforSense KDE integrative analytics platform.
"This interoperability between essential technologies gives scientists the tools to make successful research decisions more efficiently".
"Jointly, InforSense and Elsevier MDL can provide research organisations with a more comprehensive application development environment," said Joseph Donahue, chief business officer of InforSense.
"The combination of technologies provides researchers with enhanced ability to compose, optimise and deliver applications across life sciences R and D to achieve their productivity goals.
We will also be exploring additional developments to leverage both companies' complementary integrative analytics and workflow expertise." Elsevier MDL has been a member of the InforSense Open Workflow Partner Network (OWPN) since March 2005, and mutual customers already benefit from the integration of MDL chemistry applications (including MDL Direct data cartridges and MDL ISIS/Draw) with both InforSense KDE and its 'in Oracle' enterprise analytics system, InforSense Oracle Edition.
Under the new agreement, InforSense becomes a preferred member of the MDL Isentris Alliance, a growing community of companies joining forces to improve the value of offerings from different vendors by utilising an open technology framework optimised for scientific applications.
Within the expanded partnership, the companies will work together to provide support for and connectivity between the MDL Isentris product family, including MDL Draw, and the InforSense KDE integrative analytics framework.
The companies will also explore other areas of technical collaboration.
Elsevier MDL provides informatics, database and workflow systems that accelerate successful life sciences R and D by improving the speed and quality of scientists' decision making.
Researchers around the world depend on Elsevier MDL for innovative and reliable discovery informatics software and services augmented by 400 Elsevier chemistry and life sciences journals and related products.
Elsevier is a publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services.
Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group.
MDL Isentris is described as the first complete, out-of-the-box, N-tier informatics architecture supporting enterprise-wide business process, data and application integration for the life sciences.
Isentris streamlines the storage, integration and retrieval of a broad range of chemistry and biology data, enabling scientists to access the right information at the right time, in the right context and format.
InforSense says it enables organisations to orchestrate and optimise 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 and D, healthcare and business analytics.
The company is privately held, with European headquarters in London and North American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Using InforSense KDE, enterprises rapidly integrate and deliver virtually any data source, analytic software tool, service or application within a single informatics framework, says the company.
Users link these components via visual workflows to dynamically answer any question using their data, however complex or transient.
Organisations 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 uses Oracle's advanced information management and processing capabilities.
