SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - April 20, 2009) -
Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:
ACCL), a leading
provider of scientific business intelligence software and services, today
announced that the company received the 2009 Frost & Sullivan Growth
Strategy Leadership Award for the North American Scientific Business
Intelligence (Sci-Bi) Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Market. The award is
given to the company that has bolstered its position in the market during
the base year and whose strategy and technological innovation will have a
lasting impact on the market.
"With its Pipeline Pilot platform, Accelrys has brought about a paradigm
shift in the handling and management of critical scientific information and
its application in business analytics," said Dr. Sudeep Basu, senior
analyst, Frost & Sullivan. "The field of
scientific business intelligence is a unique niche which requires
strong domain knowledge and an
in depth understanding of the scientific processes and data acquisition
methods. Accelrys has synergized its excellence in both focus areas and has
ensured its rapid growth in the Scientific Business Intelligence (Sci-Bi)
market. With leading Fortune 500 companies as its clients, Accelrys is far
ahead of its competition."
The Award criteria are based on the following:
-- Ability to grow in a saturated or maturing market
-- Implementation of a unique sales strategy
-- Technological innovation and leadership
-- Discovery of new sales avenues for an established product
-- Effective Internet strategy
-- Strategic mergers, acquisitions, or joint ventures to penetrate new
markets
-- Reorganization structured around growth strategy
"We are honored that Frost & Sullivan has recognized the pioneering role
Accelrys has played in developing scientific software for boosting R&D
productivity and enabling scientific business intelligence systems," said
Dr. Frank Brown, chief science officer of Accelrys.
For more information about the award, please visit
http://accelrys.com/company/media-press/AccelrysFrostandSullivan.pdf
About Pipeline Pilot
Pipeline Pilot Enterprise Server (Pipeline Pilot) is a powerful software
platform that streamlines integration and analysis of vast quantities of
data flooding scientific and research informatics. Pipeline Pilot provides
an agile development environment, fast and secure deployment, minimal
maintenance costs, and application extensibility. Pipeline Pilot empowers
research organizations to derive greater value from their information
resources through enterprise-scale data flow control, extensive data
mining, intelligent decision support, and effective reporting.
About Accelrys, Inc.
Headquartered in San Diego, California, Accelrys develops scientific business intelligence software and
solutions for the life sciences, energy, chemicals, aerospace, and consumer
products industries. Customers include many
Fortune 500 companies and other commercial entities, as well as academic
and government entities. Accelrys has a vast portfolio of computer-aided
design modeling and simulation offerings which assist customers in
conducting scientific experiments 'in silico' in order to reduce the
duration and cost of discovering and developing new drugs and materials.
Its scientific business
intelligence platform underlies the company's computer-aided design
modeling and simulation offerings. The Accelrys platform can be used with
both Accelrys and competitive products, as well as with customers'
proprietary predictive science products. Its flexibility, ease-of-use and
advanced chemical, text and image analysis and reporting capabilities
enable customers to mine, aggregate, analyze and report scientific data
from disparate sources, thereby better utilizing scientific data within
their organizations. For more information about Accelrys, visit
http://accelrys.com/
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to
accelerate growth and achieve best in class positions in growth, innovation
and leadership. The company's Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO
and the CEO's Growth Team with disciplined research and best practice
models to drive the generation, evaluation and implementation of powerful
growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan leverages over 45 years of experience
in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the
investment community from 31 offices on six continents. To join our Growth
Partnership, please visit http://www.frost.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. Such statements,
including statements relating to the Company's products, their features,
and their impact upon our customers' organizations, are subject to risks
and uncertainties including, but not limited to, the risk that our products
will not be successfully developed, achieve market acceptance, have the
anticipated impact upon our customers' organizations, and other risks and
uncertainties described in documents Accelrys has filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, including its most recent report on Form 10-K and
any subsequent interim filings. All forward-looking statements in this
document are qualified entirely by the cautionary statements included in
this document and such filings. These risks and uncertainties could cause
actual results to differ materially from results expressed or implied by
forward-looking statements contained in this document. These
forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this document.
Accelrys disclaims any intent or obligation to publicly update or revise
any
forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in its
expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or
circumstances on which any such statement is based.
