Base4 Bioinformatics Announces Agreement With Open Text to Provide Advanced Intranet Solutions to Support Pharmaceutical Discovery.TORONTO--(BW HealthWire)--April 28, 1998-- Base4 to Resell re·sell tr.v. re·sold , re·sell·ing, re·sells 1. To sell again. 2. To sell (a product or service) to the public or to an end user, especially as an authorized dealer. Livelink Intranet as Part of Value Added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. Solution to Help Companies Manage Complex Multiyear Discovery and Development Processes of New Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics therapeutics Treatment and care to combat disease or alleviate pain or injury. Its tools include drugs, surgery, radiation therapy, mechanical devices, diet, and psychiatry. Base4 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 Inc. announced today an agreement with Open Text Corporation to resell Livelink Intranet with its PharMatrix product to create an advanced intranet solution to accelerate the discovery and development of new pharmaceuticals to treat human disease. As a leading provider of integrated systems solutions to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies Top 100 Biotechnology Companies The following is a list of the top 100 biotechnology companies ranked by revenue. The first nine companies qualify for the list of the top 50 pharmaceutical companies. , Base4 has become a member of the Livelink Affinity Reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. Program, and will be a value-added reseller A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. of Livelink to its customers across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . "A wealth of new opportunities to discover and develop novel and more effective pharmaceuticals have been created by recent technical advances in the industry. However, these new methods in genetics, chemistry and automation are creating an unprecedented flood of data," said Martin Sumner-Smith, President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Base4 Bioinformatics Inc. "Livelink provides a complete knowledge management solution to manage the data and allow team collaboration between research centres around the world. PharMatrix builds on the solution to meet the specific needs of pharmaceutical discovery." Livelink Intranet is a highly scalable, collaborative knowledge management application for intranets. Livelink's richly-featured enterprise document management, workflow, project collaboration and search engines are tightly integrated into an off-the-shelf application that is easily customized and extended to fill a broad range of information and knowledge management needs. Livelink servers are fully Web-based and open-architected to ensure very rapid deployment, requiring just a standard Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. on users' desktops to access its full functionality. "Knowledge management is an overriding trend in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry as companies strive to share and leverage knowledge across globally distributed research centres," said Abe Kleinfeld, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Open Text Corporation. "In this increasingly competitive market, Base4 has proven its ability to address the needs of pharmaceutical companies. Open Text is looking to Livelink Affinity Partners such as Base4 to help us expand our presence in these enterprise accounts and increase our market leadership position." About Open Text Corporation Open Text Corporation's software and services enable Global 2000 companies to leverage the global reach and openness of intranets, truly "Putting the Web to Work."(tm) Open Text's dramatic growth has been fueled by the rapid market acceptance of its innovative collaborative knowledge management system, Livelink. The company has been named the growth leader by the Delphi Group and the market share leader by International Data Corporation. Further information about the company, its products and services, partners and customers can be found at http://www.opentext.com. About Base4 Bioinformatics Base4 Bioinformatics Inc. provides integrated systems solutions to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The Company was incorporated in May 1996 and has customers in North America and Europe. Base4 operates offices in Toronto and Montreal, and will be opening new offices in Vancouver and San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. this summer. Further information about the company, and its products and services can be found at http://www.base4.com. NOTE: Livelink Intranet is a trademark of Open Text Corporation and PharMatrix is a trademark of Base4 Bioinformatics Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. CONTACT: Base4 Bioinformatics Inc. Kent Hawkins, 905/677-0532 ext 227 khawkins@base4.com or Open Text Corporation Mia Pearson, 519/888-7111 ext. 2410 mpearson@opentext.com |
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