Accelrys Announces Expanded Partner Program
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE )–Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced an enhanced and expanded Partner Program. Building on the recently announced Accelrys Enterprise R&D Architecture based on the Pipeline Pilot™ platform, the program offers new capabilities and business opportunities for partners engaged in selling, implementing and integrating Accelrys software, providing customers superior informatics solutions, world-class service and leading-edge science delivered within a unified enterprise architecture.
The Accelrys Partner Program enables industry collaborators to combine their own products and services with Accelrys technologies on a single platform, reducing costs, enhancing organizational efficiency, optimizing IT infrastructure and speeding innovation in new scientific areas. With the delivery of new scientific algorithms and research tools, commercial and academic partners will expand and diversify the breadth of science embedded in Accelrys technology and increase their customers’ agility in moving new products from lab to market.
“Accelrys believes that a strong and vibrant partner ecosystem is essential to providing customers with the latest, best-in-class scientific tools,” said Dr. Trevor Heritage, executive vice president of software products at Accelrys. “The Accelrys Enterprise R&D Architecture’s unique integration capabilities support a wide spectrum of partner collaborations around innovative, science-based software and services, enabling rapid technology deployment through familiar applications like Pipeline Pilot and Symyx Notebook by Accelrys . A strong Partner Program helps Accelrys, our partners and our many mutual customers achieve success together.”
“The combination of Microsoft’s software and services with Accelrys’ business intelligence, predictive science and industry experience creates innovative solutions that address key challenges, such as the delivery of new products to the marketplace,” said Michael Naimoli, worldwide managing director, Microsoft Life Sciences. “The expansion of Accelrys’ Partner Program will provide even more opportunities and benefits to our joint customers.”
To better serve customers in building, extending and maintaining the IT infrastructure they need, the Accelrys Partner Program brings together a wide variety of independent software vendors, service providers and developers; consulting partners and system integrators; distributors and value-added resellers; platform and technology partners; original equipment manufacturers; and academic institutions. The multi-tiered program enables partners to move from basic membership to higher levels of partnership by meeting specified program requirements. The higher the partnership level, the greater the combined commitment and resources to sustain the partnership momentum in benefiting mutual customers. All members of the Partner Program meet the same high standards for market knowledge, vision, integrity and customer satisfaction that Accelrys sets for itself.
To view a list of current partners or the program guide and partner application, visit the Accelrys Partner Program website.
About Accelrys, Inc.
Accelrys (NASDAQ:ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, supports industries and organizations that rely on science as a differentiator. Accelrys’ Enterprise Research & Development Architecture, built on the industry-leading Pipeline Pilot™ platform, provides a broad, flexible scientific solution optimized to integrate the diversity of science, experimental processes and information requirements across the research, development, process scale-up and early manufacturing phases of product development. Through its Enterprise R&D Architecture and market-leading electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs), Accelrys enables scientific innovators to access, organize, analyze and share data in unprecedented ways, enhancing innovation, improving productivity and compliance, reducing costs and speeding time from lab to market.
Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Accelrys has more than 1,300 customers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, energy, chemicals, aerospace, consumer packaged goods and industrial products industries and employs approximately 150 full-time Ph.D. scientists. For more information about Accelrys, visit www.accelrys.com.
