INDUSTRY
Infinity Chooses Spotfire to Support Analysis in Drug Discovery Process
SOMERVILLE, MA -- Spotfire(R) Inc., a leading provider of analytic applications, today announced Infinity Pharmaceuticals is using Spotfire's DecisionSiteTM 7.0 as its standard interactive analytic application environment. Infinity is using Spotfire DecisionSite in conjunction with other state-of-the art information technology to improve decision-making in the development of new pharmaceuticals. DecisionSite taps into large amounts of data from disparate databases to help improve the quality and velocity of decision-making throughout Infinity's drug discovery process. "Spotfire allows us to visualize tremendous amounts of data from distributed, heterogeneous sources, enabling our scientists to ask questions more efficiently and effectively through visual interrogation of their data," said Andy Palmer, Infinity's chief information officer. Infinity has purchased licenses for all of Spotfire's DecisionSite applications, including Spotfire DecisionSite for Lead DiscoveryTM and Spotfire DecisionSite for Functional GenomicsTM. Spotfire customers configure DecisionSite to meet the varied challenges of end users and their global organizations to rapidly analyze and understand the overwhelming volumes of data produced by their research, development, manufacturing, distribution, marketing and sales organizations. More than 10,000 chemists and biologists use Spotfire DecisionSite at major pharmaceutical and biotech companies throughout the world. Spotfire DecisionSite is used in all industries where hardcore decisions need to be made to rapidly develop and deliver research-intensive products, in companies like Texas Instruments, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Biogen, ChevronTexaco and SAAB. "Infinity's chemistry as well as its approach to drug discovery is truly unique - we believe its science and its use of Spotfire's analytic applications give them a significant advantage in the process of discovering new drugs," said Spotfire's CEO Christopher Ahlberg. "By equipping its organization with Spotfire DecisionSite, Infinity is putting itself months and years ahead of its competition."