IDBS Press Release

IDBS Partners with Intelligent Pharma

Collaboration Extends Product Portfolio and Services in Spain and Portugal

Guildford, UK, and Burlington, Mass., March 2, 2010 - IDBS, the leading worldwide provider of research data management and analytics solutions to R&D organizations, today announced a strategic partnership with Intelligent Pharma, a privately-owned cheminformatic and bioinformatic company located in Barcelona.

Intelligent Pharma has a wide variety of customers who are primarily focused on biomedical sciences in the Iberian Peninsula. Within this partnership, Intelligent Pharma will deliver a full range of professional services, including training for IDBS core products - ActivityBase Suite, E-WorkBook Suite, and the InforSense Suite - as well as providing technical consulting and project management support. IDBS' many existing customers in the region will benefit from the presence of localized training and support capability, with continued, full access to IDBS' core team of experts and developers.

"This partnership is an exciting opportunity for us, enabling us to expand our complete service portfolio and maximize the value we offer to our customers," said Ignasi Belda, CEO of Intelligent Pharma. He added, "Our knowledge of the market in Spain and our client relationships means we are ideally suited to working with the IDBS product suites, and our existing expertise will greatly benefit IDBS customers in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking regions."

"We are extremely happy to be working with Intelligent Pharma, who reflect the same integrity, high standards and domain expertise synonymous with IDBS' award-winning products and services," said Neil Kipling, founder and CEO of IDBS. "Adding further consulting companies to our innovation partnership program guarantees high quality local support for all of our product suites."

About IDBS

IDBS is a unique, global supplier of innovative data management and analytics solutions, which increase efficiency, reduce costs and improve business and scientific productivity of R&D organizations worldwide. Organizations such as Pfizer, GSK, Celera, MedImmune, Dana-Farber, and Roche employ IDBS solutions as an integral part of their strategy to address the increasing pressures placed upon them by the need for the secure, compliant capture, integration and analysis of complex research data. IDBS is clearly differentiated from other software providers by its unique combination of deep domain knowledge and its ability to rapidly provide integrated business process and robust data analytics solutions along the entire R&D value chain. IDBS solutions secure organizations' valuable R&D data assets and enable rapid decision-making through effective integration and analysis. They also support the protection of Intellectual Property (IP) and the requirements for data quality demanded under Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards.

IDBS is a private company, founded in 1989 and headquartered in Guildford, UK. IDBS has worldwide consulting and support presence, with U.S. offices in California, New Jersey and Massachusetts, the EU, Australia and China.

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