SAN DIEGO, April 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelrys, Inc.
(NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation
lifecycle management software and solutions, today announced the
availability of two new mobile applications supporting key life
sciences workflows and real-time collaboration spanning both the
ScienceCloud workspace and on-premises systems. ScienceCloud is a
secure, SaaS-based, mobile-enabled information management and
collaboration environment that improves data and knowledge sharing
for globally networked researchers. Bi-directional integration
between ScienceCloud and existing on-premises systems lets life
sciences organizations migrate to the cloud in a measured fashion,
continuing to leverage critical legacy applications as long as
needed.
"Leading life sciences companies are looking for innovative,
cloud-based collaborative research solutions that can address the
needs of today's scientific workforce, who increasingly rely on
social networking and mobile communication for productivity gains,"
said Matt Hahn, Ph.D., senior vice
president and chief technology officer at Accelrys. "Our new mobile
ScienceCloud offering is a game-changer, providing new task-based
and project-based applications for the many mobile devices that are
rapidly becoming ubiquitous in laboratories today."
With ScienceCloud Tasks, scientists using the industry-standard
Accelrys Pipeline Pilot scientific authoring application and the
Accelrys Mobile Collection can rapidly build and test mobile-ready
protocols supporting key life science tasks and deploy them to
mobile users in a networked organization. As well as working in the
cloud, the application also works with local, on-premises Pipeline
Pilot deployments, supporting mobile workflows in server-based
environments. With ScienceCloud Tasks, protocol authors can
leverage mobile functions including image capture, location
services, chemistry sketching and audio/video/speech handling.
Project teams can produce mobile-optimized charts and graphs scaled
to particular mobile devices and assign specific tasks to
particular members. ScienceCloud Tasks improves workflow efficiency
and productivity by enabling mobile-enabled scientists and
researchers to:
- View status reports and project dashboards
- Run scientific workflow tasks (upload images to Notebook, scan
barcodes, perform chemical searches, etc.)
- Share task results with other mobile users
ScienceCloud Projects allows collaborative teams to communicate
around research projects via mobile devices. Mobile-enabled
scientists can access and search real-time project data and engage
in project-related conversations, anywhere and anytime, improving
collaboration and accelerating innovation by enabling project teams
to:
- View project status and communicate results
- Access, search and share project data
- Post and read project-related social media-like updates
- Receive instant notifications of new shared information
ScienceCloud Tasks and ScienceCloud Projects are part of an open
and growing ecosystem of web and mobile applications developed by
Accelrys and third-party software partners to address the current
and future informatics needs of externalized drug discovery
projects. ScienceCloud Tasks was developed in collaboration with
Eidogen-Sertanty, one of ScienceCloud's early partners.
ScienceCloud Tasks and ScienceCloud Projects are available now
as free downloads from the Apple® App StoreSM.
To learn more about ScienceCloud mobile enablement, register for
the complimentary webinar entitled "Research Collaboration Going
Mobile," scheduled for Tuesday, May 6,
2014, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
PDT.
If you are at BioIT World in Boston (April 29-May
1), you are invited to attend the presentation by Accelrys
CTO Matt Hahn entitled "Accelrys
ScienceCloud: A Hosted Strategy for Collaborative R&D"
(Collaborations and Open Access Innovations Track 11, Wednesday, April 30 at 2:55 PM).
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About Accelrys, Inc.
Accelrys (NASDAQ: ACCL), a
leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management
software, supports industries and organizations that rely on
scientific innovation to differentiate themselves. The
industry-leading Accelrys Enterprise Platform provides a broad,
flexible scientific foundation optimized to integrate the diversity
of science, experimental processes and information requirements
across the research, development, QA/QC and manufacturing phases of
product development. Accelrys offers capabilities in scientific
data management, modelling and simulation, research informatics,
laboratory informatics, enterprise quality management,
environmental health & safety and operations intelligence for
customers in science-driven industries. Using Accelrys technology,
scientific innovators can access, organize, analyse and share data
in unprecedented ways across the research, laboratory and
manufacturing continuum, ultimately enhancing innovation, improving
productivity and compliance, reducing costs and accelerating
product development from research to manufacturing.
Accelrys solutions are used by more than 2,000 customers in the
pharmaceutical, biotechnology, energy, chemicals, aerospace,
consumer packaged goods and industrial products industries.
Headquartered in San Diego, CA,
Accelrys employs approximately 225 full-time Ph.D. scientists. For
more information about Accelrys, visit www.accelrys.com.
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