LabVantage Solutions® and Scientific Software Announce Strategic Relationship

Posted on October 25, 2003 By Corinne Jones News

For Immediate Release

Sapphire^® LIMS to integrate with CyberLAB KES to provide first seamless solution between leading LIMS and long-term data archival systems.

Pleasanton, CA and Bridgewater, NJ (October 23, 2003) LabVantage Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise LIMS and Life Sciences LIMS solutions, and Scientific Software Inc., a world leader in providing software solutions to the scientific community, announced today that they have entered into a broad strategic relationship that will provide customers using Scientific Software’s CyberLAB Knowledge Engineering System™ (KES), and LabVantage’s Sapphire LIMS, with the industry’s first completely integrated software solution between an enterprise LIMS solution, and a long-term data archival and retrieval solution.

The broad strategic agreement has many key elements that provide assurance that this multi-vendor solution is sustainable and supportable in the future. Key aspects of the agreement include:

	Development organizations will work closely to ensure software compatibility and to enhance the customer experience.
	Sales and Marketing organizations will work closely to educate and communicate joint capabilities, to better position the strategic relationship to flourish and win new business.
	Quality and testing organizations will work closely to ensure that the integration efforts function as designed, and company independence does not adversely affect the customer experience.

“This strategic relationship is an important first step in providing companies with a seamless solution from independent best-of-breed solution providers,” said Dr. Soheil Saadat, President & CEO, Scientific Software, Inc. “Customers looking for a smart, integrated solution bridging LIMS, long-term data archiving, and CDS will find our complete solution to be unmatchable in its functional richness.”

CyberLAB Knowledge Engineering System is the industry’s only secure, web-based system designed to capture and warehouse all the electronic records across the enterprise in singular scalable architecture. Users can create laboratory reports, and search, retrieve, data mine, and archive any type of an electronic record, such as instrumentation raw data, reports, spreadsheets, documents, presentations, and image files. CyberLAB assists organizations in becoming compliant with FDA regulations when required. Built using standard web technology, CyberLAB is expandable from a single user system to global multi-site implementations enabling global research collaboration and data sharing.

LabVantage Sapphire LIMS helps laboratories increase productivity, lower operating costs, and improve quality. Sapphire’s configurable process automation and communication capabilities allow laboratories of any size to model their business-specific workflows, seamlessly integrate with robots and analytical instruments, leverage the Internet for internal and external communications, and meet the growing demands of high-throughput discovery and research environments.

“The integration of CyberLAB and Sapphire LIMS is a major first step in meeting the needs of today’s corporation, which is looking for ways to increase the fundamental value of their licensed software solutions for discovery and product life cycle management,” said Jim Aurelio, President & CEO, LabVantage Solutions. “This strategic relationship between Scientific Software and LabVantage is a vital leadership statement, which our enterprise clients have been looking for us to make.”

About LabVantage Solutions
A leader in Enterprise LIMS and Life Sciences LIMS solutions, LabVantage Solutions, Inc. is a Chatterjee Management Group company, and an Advanced IBM Business Partner. LabVantage provides intelligent sample and experiment data management LIMS for traditional manufacturing QA/QC, pharmaceutical QC, genomics, proteomics, and high throughput screening. The company also offers services that ensure customer success, such as industry and technology consulting, implementation services, application training, and extensive customer support services. Since 1981, LabVantage has implemented hundreds of laboratory information systems across a broad range of industries. Headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey, LabVantage also has offices in High Wycombe, UK, and Kolkata, India, as well as an extensive web of business partnerships and technology alliances.

Further information about LabVantage and its products is available at www.labvantage.com

About Scientific Software, Inc.
Scientific Software, Inc. is a world leader in the development, sale and support of software systems to the scientific community.  With over 55,000 worldwide installations, the Company’s award-winning EZChrom Elite™ Chromatography Data System is used in a wide range of markets such as pharmaceutical, environmental, chemical, and food analysis.  The Company’s CyberLAB Knowledge Engineering System is used by leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies providing an enterprise-wide solution for information collaboration, data management, regulatory compliance and knowledge engineering.  Scientific Software, Inc. is based in Pleasanton, California.

Further information about Scientific Software, Inc. and its products is available at www.scisw.com

 or at 1-800-588-8878.

by Corinne Jones