Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Deploys Spotfire DecisionSite.Business/Technology Editors SOMERVILLE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2002 An affiliated company of one of world's top 20 pharmaceutical corporations uses Spotfire for high throughput screening (HTS HTS Heights HTS Harmonized Tariff System HTS High Throughput Screening (biomolecular assay screening) HTS High-Throughput Screening (Pharmaceutical Industry) HTS Harmonized Tariff Schedule ), chemistry and genomics Analytic application provider Spotfire(R) Inc. today announced Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is deploying Spotfire's DecisionSite(TM) analytic software for industrial chemical and biopharmaceutical product research and development. Boehringer Ingelheim is one of the world's largest developers of prescription medicines. Spotfire DecisionSite allows product developers, scientists and researchers to test hypotheses based on hundreds of thousands of datasets across tens of data columns simply by moving visual sliders sliders a species of tortoise kept as pets. They have a black shell and a red stripe behind the eye. Called also Chrysemys scripta elegans, red-eared sliders. . Several of the world's largest companies, including all of the major pharmaceutical companies, are using Spotfire's DecisionSite software to accelerate the decision-making process crucial to new product discovery, research, development and improvement. "Spotfire empowers people to interact dynamically with data to make informed decisions and new discoveries," said Spotfire's 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. Christopher Ahlberg. "The kind of intelligence DecisionSite provides gives engineers, researchers and product managers the ability to test hundreds of `what-if' scenarios - often a week's worth of hypothetical Hypothetical is an adjective, meaning of or pertaining to a hypothesis. See:
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