Best of Show Awards Winners Named at Spring Bio-IT World Conference + Expo

Business Wire, May 19, 2005

BOSTON -- Products From HP, InforSense, Phase Forward and TEMIS Recognized for Their Technical Innovation Driving Biomedical Research, Drug Discovery

IDG's Bio-IT World magazine and IDG World Expo today announced that products from four bio-IT companies were named Best of Show Awards winners at a ceremony held here last night at the Hynes Convention Center during Bio-IT World Conference Expo: The winning products include Virus Throttling for ProCurve Switch 5300xl series from ProCurve by HP; KDE 2.0 from Inforsense Ltd.; Inform S/W 4.5 from Phase Forward; and Insight Discoverer Extractor from TEMIS.

Judged by a team of Bio-IT World magazine editors and highly regarded industry experts, Best of Show Awards recognize new products which demonstrate exceptional technology innovations across the life sciences research, discovery and clinical trials process.

One company was selected within four technology categories. The following winners were selected among 13 finalists, based on the products' technical merit, functionality and innovation, and in-person presentations to the judges at the show.

--Clinical Trials & Research

Inform S/W 4.5 from Phase Forward, Waltham, Mass.

--Information Technology Infrastructure

Virus Throttling for ProCurve Switch 5300xl series from Procurve by HP, Palo Alto, Calif.

--Knowledge Management & Collaboration Tools

KDE 2.0 from InforSense Ltd., London

--Informatics Tools & Data

Insight Discoverer Extractor from TEMIS, Paris

In addition to the Best of Show Awards winners, A Judges' Special Recognition for Innovation was presented to Standard Register for its ExpeData Digital Writing Solution.

Bio-IT World Conference Expo is the industry's premier event that showcases how technology is transforming life sciences throughout all discovery and development processes. It has been taking place this week, May 17-19, 2005 at Boston's Hynes Convention Center. This year's event included well-known professionals in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, government and life science fields; more than 90 well-known companies exhibiting innovative products and solutions; and dozens of conference sessions and workshops addressing the issues and themes critical to the life sciences research and discovery processes.

During the awards ceremony, John Russell, executive editor, and project manager for the Best of Show Awards, said, "We are amazed at the number of extremely strong contenders we've seen at this year's Best of Show Awards. The caliber of products that we've reviewed is testimony to the vitality and burgeoning growth taking place in the life sciences fields. In addition, this year's prestigious judges who are leaders in their respective industries, know what it takes to be a first-rate, real world product solution. Their insights and first-hand knowledge have given us a unique perspective into the winning products."

Best of Show Award Winners

Virus Throttling for ProCurve Switch 5300xl series from ProCurve by HP is a tool that detects virus-like activity as traffic enters the LAN and passes through the network switch. The solution developed by HP Labs, the company's central research facility, is the first to focus on the behavior of malicious code in a switch rather than on its content, so it can identify and respond to previous, as well as unknown threats. By focusing on blocking such code from spreading across VLANs, it addresses the immense network traffic that is one of the most destructive aspects of such code.

KDE 2.0 from InforSense Ltd. is an integrated analytics platform for enterprise-wide informatics. It is the first platform to provide scientists in research organizations with a way to collaborate on creative discovery processes using a flexible and interactive workflow that integrates software applications, databases and instruments. Integrated information can be analyzed in real time with a rich set of data mining algorithms and visualization facilities within KDE or external algorithms. Its Open Discovery Workflow technology enables scientists to build their own data/application integration without programming or scripting.

Inform 4.5 From Phase Forward is an Internet-enabled electronic data capture solution that reduces the inefficiencies, inaccuracies and cost associated with paper-based clinical trials. Using the Inform platform, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies can conduct clinical trials with electronically managed data. Inform 4.5 offers comprehensive real- time trial management reporting and analysis capabilities directly embedded within the product. The solution offers unprecedented visibility and access to both clinical and operation trial data to help sponsors make timely and intelligent clinical business decisions.

Insight Discoverer Extractor from TEMIS is an information extraction server dedicated to the analysis of text documents. It detects pieces of information that are the most relevant to users, such as a merger announcement for a financial analyst, an FDA approval for a competitive intelligence officer or a protein interaction in scientific literature for a biologist. The knowledge extraction is powered by Skill Cartridges(TM), a hierarchy of knowledge components describing the information to extract for a given business-specific field or topic. The product covers 16 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Danish, Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian.