Scitegic Announces Expanded Commitment to Pipeline Pilot at Unilever

SciTegic, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelrys, Inc (NASDAQ: ACCL), today announced the sale of a multi-year license of Pipeline Pilot software to Unilever. SciTegic’s data pipelining platform is now deployed at four Unilever sites across Europe and the U.S. Unilever is using Pipeline Pilot widely, primarily for informatics analyses and molecular modeling of compounds for their HPC (Home and Personal Care), Foods and safety, health and environmental R&D areas.

Pipeline Pilot facilitates the integration of research data from multiple sources and in diverse formats. Its graphical interface provides an intuitive environment for analyses involving many different software tools and algorithms to be linked together and automated. Companies like Unilever are a good example of how Pipeline Pilot’s revolutionary approach to data processing and analysis is being adopted by non-pharmaceutical companies to heighten the impact of their research.

“The ease of use and modular nature of Pipeline Pilot has helped us reduce the time necessary to complete internal informatics activities by as much as 90%,” said Jerry Winter, Head of Informatics for Unilever HPC R&D at Port Sunlight. “In addition, SciTegic’s predictive modeling technologies provide us with better results than any dedicated data modeling package we have tried.”

“It is tremendously gratifying to see the deployment of Pipeline Pilot expanding rapidly inside key accounts like Unilever,” said Dr. Mathew Hahn, VP and General Manager of SciTegic. “Our growing relationship with Unilever has proven invaluable and our products have benefited from the feedback resulting from its application to Unilever’s unique business needs.”

About SciTegic
SciTegic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), develops and markets informatics software for various industries, including the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The company is pioneering a technology approach called “Data Pipelining” to process drug discovery data with unprecedented flexibility. This methodology is fast establishing its utility by accelerating informatics research for thousands of users at over one hundred customer sites worldwide. Further information about SciTegic is available at: www.scitegic.com .