Aurigin Systems Joins Spotfire Network; Unique Offering Links Visual Discovery Software to Intellectual Property Management System.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 1998--Spotfire, Inc., a leading supplier of software solutions for data exploration and collaborative discovery, today announced that Aurigin Systems, Inc., has joined the Spotfire Network Partnership Program. Aurigin offers the Intellectual Property Asset Management (IPAM (IP Address Management) The administration of DNS and DHCP, which are the services that assign and resolve IP addresses to machines in a TCP/IP network. There are numerous graphical-based IPAM applications that take the tedium out of manually writing DNS records and ) System, which helps companies maximize the value of their intellectual property assets and relate those assets to their products, business strategies and revenue. Together, the companies will provide customers in life sciences with a unique software solution enabling them to align align (  līn),v to move the teeth into their proper positions to conform to the line of occlusion. their drug development portfolios to market areas that are unprotected by pending or existing patents. Under the terms of the agreement, Spotfire and Aurigin will integrate and co-market Spotfire's visual discovery software, Spotfire Pro, with the Aurigin IPAM System. The combined solution provides customers with insight into both product line opportunities and competitive threats to development strategies. "We are dedicated to assisting our customers in leveraging their intellectual assets to optimize optimize - optimisation future investment decisions," said Dan'l Lewin Dan'l Lewin is the corporate Vice president of strategic and emerging business development at Microsoft Corporation. He previously worked at Apple Computer and NeXT, and was also CEO of Aurigin Systems Inc. External links and references
"The Aurigin/Spotfire alliance allows customers to interactively link scientific results of drug discovery to the business opportunities yet undiscovered within the patent portfolio," commented Luis Barros, Spotfire's Manager, Business Development. "Having Aurigin join Spotfire Network reinforces our strategy to offer our visual discovery solution to multiple disciplines in the drug discovery value chain." Aurigin Systems, Inc. A privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. founded in 1992, Aurigin Systems, Inc. (formerly SmartPatents, Inc.) develops business automation systems for intellectual asset management that allow organizations to manage the "life" of their ideas to maximize their market value. Aurigin products enable companies to take stock of their intellectual property assets and relate them to business issues. Aurigin is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. Spotfire, Inc. Spotfire is the premier supplier of data exploration and collaborative discovery solutions to the life and material science industry. Spotfire Pro is in wide use supporting early stage research activities such as high throughput The speed with which a computer processes data. It is a combination of internal processing speed, peripheral speeds (I/O) and the efficiency of the operating system and other system software all working together. 1. screening, genomics, lead optimization optimization Field of applied mathematics whose principles and methods are used to solve quantitative problems in disciplines including physics, biology, engineering, and economics. , combinatorial chemistry Combinatorial chemistry involves the rapid synthesis or the computer simulation of a large number of different but structurally related molecules. Introduction Synthesis of molecules in a combinatorial fashion can quickly lead to large numbers of molecules. , and bioinformatics Using computers in biological research to analyze or predict the composition of molecules (nucleic acids, proteins, etc.) and model biologic systems. Bioinformatics is most prominent in the Human Genome Project, which has recorded the three billion chemical base pairs that make up the . Spotfire has the ability to immediately display large amounts of disparate data and to visually query that information for trends, anomalies, and patterns. Additionally, the product permits researchers to store their research results, schedule future analysis and generate reports that can be shared among other researchers or managers via the Web. The company was founded in 1996 and maintains its European headquarters and development center in Goteborg, Sweden, and its U.S. headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. |
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