IDBS Press Release

Total Petrochemicals Deploys IDBS' E-WorkBook for Chemistry to Improve R&D Efficiency and Productivity

Guildford, UK, and Burlington, Mass., March 17, 2010 - IDBS, the leading worldwide provider of research data management and analytics solutions to R&D organizations, today announced that E-WorkBook for Chemistry has been adopted by Total Petrochemicals, one of the world's leading petrochemicals producers. Total Petrochemicals has selected E-WorkBook at its R&D Center of Feluy, Belgium, to manage the diverse and complex data and Intellectual Property (IP) generated in polymer chemistry and synthetic organic chemistry to accelerate their R&D processes and to improve research efficiency.

E-WorkBook for Chemistry provides specific tools that support and simplify the day-to-day research of analytical, process, medicinal, synthetic and polymer chemists. E-WorkBook's chemically intelligent environment manages chemistry workflows in a flexible, secure environment that allows scientists to perform powerful searches across experiments, samples and reagent databases. E-WorkBook incorporates advanced chemistry technologies including a chemically aware spreadsheet to create workflows and templates and provide data analysis.

E-WorkBook's advanced functionality, with chemically intelligent searching and reporting combined with secure IP management, matched Total Petrochemicals' requirements for an enterprise electronic lab notebook (ELN) for polymer and synthetic organic chemistry. Total Petrochemicals' decision to adopt E-WorkBook was based on the flexibility and adaptability of IDBS' chemistry technology to support custom reports and data capture. Flexible catalog based searching enables scientists to quickly find relevant information and run reports without the need to write SQL statements, giving Total Petrochemicals complete access to their data.

"E-WorkBook for Chemistry gives us a flexible, robust ELN that can integrate with laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and scientific data management systems (SDMS)," said Olivier Miserque, Polyolefins Global R&D Manager at Total Petrochemicals. "This integration capability was critical to our selection process, and we are extremely pleased with our implementation of E-WorkBook."

Neil Kipling, founder and CEO of IDBS commented: "We are delighted to be working with Total Petrochemicals to provide them with a powerful and flexible solution to fully meet their chemistry data management requirements. Total Petrochemicals' decision to replace their legacy ELN with E-WorkBook was based on our solution's state-of-the-art architecture and comprehensive chemistry capabilities, supported by our highly regarded professional services. Our growing chemistry customer base, with global companies like Total Petrochemicals, confirms IDBS' position as a leader in the cheminformatics market."

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.