Scientific Business Intelligence™ Solutions

One of the major challenges facing the scientific and clinical research communities is the inability to access, aggregate and mine scientific data across an enterprise organization. Data remains locked in silos, causing productivity and decision making to suffer, and ultimately impeding an organization’s research efficiency.

Limitations of Traditional Business Intelligence Solutions

By successfully harnessing disparate data sources and software applications, organizations position themselves to apply their data in an intelligent, focused manner, thereby improving productivity, decision making and research efficiency. However, such efficiencies have eluded many scientific and clinical research organizations because traditional business intelligence (BI) technologies cannot handle advanced scientific data processing and analysis. This lack of a readily available BI solution has forced organizations to make do with vendor-specific solutions, drain in-house development resources by building customized solutions, or struggle with sharing data among incompatible point products.

Scientific Business Intelligence Solutions

Accelrys' Scientific Business Intelligence solutions can handle the complex types of data and analyses required by the scientific and clinical research organizations. Built around proven technologies for modeling, simulation and informatics, as well as an open and enterprise-enabled, plug-and-play scientific operating platform that can unite diverse applications and databases, Accelrys' Scientific Business Intelligence solutions can help organizations improve productivity, decision making, and research efficiency.

Examples of Accelrys Scientific Business Intelligence Solutions

Site management dashboard - a Scientific Business Intelligence Solution for the Executive

Dashboards offer an interactive means for providing both high-level summary data and drilldown capabilities via graphical web or pdf pages. Shown here is a sample dashboard that could be used by decision makers at a global pharmaceutical company to monitor compound registration performance, anywhere from the site to the individual scientist level. After the initial set-up of this dashboard, end users can access current data, without needing a database administrator to execute queries against the database. Click the image for a closer look.

 

Lead management tool - a Scientific Business Intelligence Solution for the Manager

When teams of scientists are working toward a common goal, the ability to gather information from multiple users and databases is imperative because it aids in decision making and helps prevent duplication of efforts. The dashboard shown here could be used by a manager or research team to make decisions about lead candidates. It draws data from multiple databases (chemistry, biology, safety), as well as project documents containing property criteria and project metadata. Click image for a larger view.

Web-based pharmacophore profiler - a Scientific Business Intelligence Solution for the Scientist

Sophisticated 3D ligand based design, reporting and web portal technology was used to build the web-based ligand design tool shown here. The tool delivers complex science in a solution that is quick to learn and easy to use, giving users the ability to accurately select compounds for protein types, as well as the ability to select active compounds from inactive compounds from a closely-related chemical series. Click image for a larger view.

 

Web-based phase analysis tool - a Scientific Business Intelligence Solution for the Scientist

Powder X-ray analysis is an industry standard for form identification and quantification of pharmaceutical compounds. However, it requires intricate knowledge of the experimental setup, a large variety of parameters, and complex fitting algorithms. Shown here is a web interface where expert settings have been optimized and only relevant parameters have been exposed, allowing non-expert users to easily take advantage of complex analysis tools. Click image for a larger view.

Materials Grid project -a Scientific Business Intelligence Solution for the Scientist

The Materials Grid, which is being developed via a consortium led by Accelrys and funded by the UK DTI, will help scientists make better informed decisions through unprecedented access to materials properties and predictive methods. Left: Physical properties of perovskites, such as BaTiO₃, can be tuned by altering composition. Right: Cordierite, Mg₂Al₄Si₅O₁₈, used in high-temperature applications.