SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - April 20, 2009) -
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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.
