BioSystems International Selects Visual, Interactive Analytics from Spotfire.SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- Spotfire's flagship DecisionSite software helps BSI BSI - British Standards Institute bring biomarkers to the bedside more quickly Spotfire, Inc. (http://www.spotfire.com), a market leader in visual, interactive analytic applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. , today announced that BioSystems International (BSI) (www.biosys-intl.com) has purchased its flagship DecisionSite software. BSI has deployed DecisionSite to further its mission of enabling pharmaceutical companies to develop safer and more effective drugs at lower costs and in less time through the use of biomarkers. Biomarkers are molecular indicators of exposure, disease, or susceptibility susceptibility the state of being susceptible. Refers usually to infectious disease but may be to physical factors such as wetting or to psychological factors such as harassment. to disease. DecisionSite will enable BSI to rapidly process, analyze and integrate screening data from the clinical biomarker discovery Biomarker discovery is the process by which biomarkers are discovered. It is a medical term. Many commonly used blood tests in medicine are biomarkers. The way that these tests have been found can be seen as biomarker discovery. and validation research contracts and internal projects. As a result, customer pharmaceutical companies will benefit from rapid delivery of valuable clinical biomarker biomarker /bio·mark·er/ (bi´o-mahr?ker) 1. a biological molecule used as a marker for a substance or process of interest. 2. tumor marker. bi·o·mark·er n. 1. assays, enabling them to develop more effective drug trials. BSI has deployed DecisionSite to more effectively investigate and analyze several classes of biomarkers, including: --Stratification markers that predict the likelihood of a drug response --Efficacy biomarkers that predict a clinical outcome --Screening markers for the early detection of diseases --Prognostic markers to predict the likely course of the disease "We selected DecisionSite because right out-of-the-box, it delivers a core of visual, interactive analytic capabilities that give us an information advantage in biomarker discovery," said Laszlo Takacs, BSI 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. . "In addition, Spotfire's professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. customized the solution which enabled us to rapidly deploy the technology within our existing data management processes." "Analytics continues to be one of the only areas within information technology that is delivering significant return-on-investment across business units," said Christopher Ahlberg, Spotfire CEO. "By applying DecisionSite to its biomarker research, BSI can turn an information advantage into a competitive differentiator." About Spotfire, Inc. Spotfire, Inc. provides visual, interactive analytic applications and services that empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems enterprises and their end-users to improve operational performance and gain an information advantage over the competition. Over 25,000 users in close to 1,000 organizations around the world use Spotfire(R) DecisionSite(R) to drive confident decision-making by quickly and easily spotting trends, outliers and unanticipated relationships in critical business data. The company maintains U.S. headquarters in Somerville, Mass., and European headquarters in Goteborg, Sweden. Additional information can be found at: http://www.spotfire.com . Spotfire and DecisionSite are registered trademarks of Spotfire, Inc. Other company or product names may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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