IDBS Named 'Cool Vendor' by Leading Analyst Firm

Vendors selected for the 'Cool Vendor' report are innovative, impactful and intriguing

Guildford, UK, and Burlington, Mass., September 14, 2011 - IDBS, a global provider of innovative data management, analytics and modeling solutions, today announced it has been included in the ‘Cool Vendors in Healthcare Providers, 2011' report by Gartner, Inc. The Cool Vendors are recognized for providing innovative and potentially transformative solutions.

The report states that “The development of a hosted, audited environment for collaborative translational research should be of interest to any medical research and life science company, because this delivers a means to rapidly establish secure collaborations and to share data.”

New requirements for addressing the special challenges of clinical research and health enterprise performance management spawned by the combined explosions in genomics research and EHR systems include:

• Systematized methods for assembling and accessing complex clinical/genomics and other data for clinical/translational research and healthcare organization performance/care transformation
• Researcher and business/clinical analyst user-interface needs
• Support for clinical researcher workflows that require internal and external collaboration

"We are honored to be highlighted in this distinguished report," said Dr Paul Denny-Gouldson, VP Translational Medicine and Head of the IDBS Global Healthcare Unit. "As healthcare and life sciences continue to converge to deliver personalized medicines, we are seeing a growing need for collaborative translational medicine between industry and academic medical centers."

IDBS' Enterprise Translational Medicine Solution (ETMS) provides a powerful and flexible framework to integrate and analyze your clinical, patient specimen and experimental molecular and imaging data for biomarker and translational research. The solution can support department level deployments all the way through to fully hosted enterprise systems that span multiple hospitals and collaborators in a secure framework. By providing integrated access to all relevant data and analytics to scientists and clinical researchers, IDBS' solution significantly increases research productivity and scientific innovation.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About IDBS

IDBS is a global provider of innovative enterprise data management, analytics and modeling solutions. The company’s uniquely sophisticated platform technologies are used by more than 200 pharmaceutical companies, major healthcare providers, global leaders in academic study, and high tech companies to increase efficiency, reduce costs and improve the productivity of industrial R&D and clinical research. IDBS is clearly differentiated by its unique combination of award-winning enterprise technologies and domain knowledge in R&D.

IDBS’ solutions help scientists, hospitals and R&D businesses produce the world’s newest therapeutics, diagnostics and personalized treatments, high-tech materials and consumer products, faster, cleaner engines and fuels, breakthroughs in productive agriculture, healthy, safer food products, and high tech materials and products.

Founded in 1989 and privately held, IDBS is headquartered in Guildford, UK with a direct sales and support presence worldwide. IDBS is a 2010 Profit Track 100 company and the recipient of multiple awards including the Frost and Sullivan 'Enabling Technology' Award in R&D data management for 2010 and Queen's Award for International Trade 2011. For regular updates follow us on Twitter @IDBSsoftware

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Danielle Guinebertiere, IDBS Communications Director
Tel: +1 908 429 2933
Email: dguinebertiere@idbs.com