The Life Sciences industry is facing many challenges and intense competition in today's economy. Long development cycles, increased complexity and stringent regulations are adding pressures and raising the costs of R&D and causing delays in time to market.
To address these issues, successful R&D organizations must find new ways to improve collaboration, accelerate time to discovery and time to market, and integrate their specialized applications in order to reduce their costs.
Integration of Pipeline Pilot with Microsoft SharePoint via the SharePoint Bridge provides a compelling way to deliver a unique range of scientific capabilities, including analysis of chemical, biological, image, and text data in a rich, collaborative, and familiar environment.
Increase collaboration and connectivity
Scientifically-enabled SharePoint allows information workers to collaborate across geographic regions, in real-time, and interact directly with their scientific data. This allows them to analyze and mine data, revealing the key insights that support effective decision-making which reduces their overall costs and improves their efficiencies.
Improve information retrieval
Complementing SharePoint enterprise search with scientific awareness so that chemical and biological queries can be performed adds a new dimension to enterprise search and provides the ability for scientists to retrieve critical information to support ongoing investigation.
Simplify the user experience
Information workers typically face the need to access disparate data sources and work with a diverse range of scientific applications. Getting access to data and aggregating it into a usable form represents a major challenge. Moreover, the diverse software applications needed to analyze the data often have different user interfaces, and may even run on multiple OSs. The combination of SharePoint and Pipeline Pilot provides a single, and familiar, point of entry for users to access the data and applications they need.
Improve IT efficiency
The combination of Microsoft SharePoint and Pipeline Pilot allows IT organizations to streamline their processes, reduce the number of software applications that need to be supported, and provide improved overall data access to information workers within their organizations. This allows the IT organization to reduce maintenance and management costs, while providing their information worker customers a rich and dynamic application environment and fully leverage their investments in SharePoint.
Accelrys is a recognized leader in providing an enterprise class, scientifically aware platform for scientific business intelligence that helps companies increase productivity and accelerate their research process to more rapidly discover new therapies, materials and compounds. Our 1,200 customers include most of the world's leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, energy and consumer packaged goods companies.
