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InforSense Ltd., the leader in integrative analytics platforms, today announced that Syngenta has purchased a license for its software suite, including the InforSense KDE integrative analytics software, and InforSense Professional Services to build up its workflow-driven bioinformatics computational platform. Syngenta Bioinformatics plans to deploy InforSense software globally throughout R&D to further its mission of sustainable agriculture through innovative research and technology. Financial terms of the multi-year deal were not disclosed.

Syngenta will be using InforSense KDE with the bioinformatics application add-on InforSense BioSense and literature analysis application add-on InforSense TextSense, as their Global Bioinformatics Platform for building, managing and deploying analysis workflows. InforSense's workflow-driven analytics platform will enable Syngenta to implement a process-based bioinformatics computational platform that automates key analysis workflows with full support for execution automation, resilience and fault tolerance. The workflows built will leverage in-house applications and web service-enabled federated data integration and analytics for text and bioinformatics analysis. As a result, Syngenta researchers will benefit from a comprehensive system to enable better decision making as part of their internal agricultural genetics research programs.

"After a thorough and competitive analysis, we selected InforSense software because, right out-of-the-box, it delivers a core of research-relevant, integrative analytic capabilities that give us an information advantage in novel agricultural discovery," said Dr. John Chan, Syngenta's Head of Global Bioinformatics. "In addition, InforSense's Professional Services group demonstrated its ability to help us efficiently customize the solution to fit into our existing data management processes and infrastructure."

"Analytics continues to be one of the only areas within information technology that is delivering significant return-on-investment across business units," said Joseph F. Donahue, InforSense's Chief Business Officer. "By applying InforSense KDE and its application-specific add-ons to its crop protection and biotechnology research, Syngenta can turn an information advantage into a competitive differentiator. We are pleased they have chosen InforSense KDE and we look forward to working closely with them."

InforSense Limited, the leader in integrative analytics, enables organizations to orchestrate and optimize their business-critical decision-making processes. Leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology, consumer goods, financial services companies, and research institutes are using the company's flagship product, InforSense KDE, to enhance productivity across life science R&D, healthcare, and business analytics. The company is privately held, with European headquarters in London, UK and North American headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Using InforSense KDE, enterprises rapidly integrate and deliver virtually any data source, analytic software tool, service or application within a single informatics framework. Users link these components via visual workflows to dynamically answer any question using their data, however complex or transient. Organizations can also mine their analytical processes to discover and deploy expertise and best practices. InforSense KDE provides an open, extensible service-oriented architecture, built using industry standards including J2EE, XML, and WSDL. InforSense IOE is a state-of-the-art solution for enterprise-wide integrative analytics using Oracle's advanced information management and processing capabilities.