Life Sciences organizations face many technical challenges in their quest to increase collaboration among researchers, streamline and replicate processes, enhance service levels and accelerate processing for faster time-to-market.

Reduce the time it takes to bring new products to market

• With new drugs taking years of resource intensive research, development, testing and marketing, pharmaceutical companies must ensure processes are completed as quickly, accurately, and inexpensively as possible

Realign resources to business priorities

• Researchers and scientists in all Life Sciences organizations must focus on organization-critical science rather than coping with the challenges of heterogeneous IT infrastructures

React to regulatory and market pressures

• To remain competitive and meet regulatory requirements, Life Sciences organizations must simplify processes, easily replicate them, enhance service levels and accelerate processing

Overcome budgetary limitations

• Life sciences organizations must do more with less because of limited research grants and funding cutbacks

Streamline business processes

• Business processes ranging from data-mining in clinical studies to record keeping to self-developed applications can be accelerated by HPC management software

The Platform Computing Solution

Platform's HPC management software, comprised of products in two distinct suites, Platform Accelerate and Platform Manage, frees your researchers, scientists and testers from technology constraints while enhancing service levels and reducing costs. By integrating technology silos and cost-effectively revitalizing your entire HPC environment to be more agile and responsive, your organization won’t sacrifice accuracy for speed, or profitability for competitive advantage.

• Support and nurture the discovery process. Easily manage workloads to ensure that the right resources are automatically allocated to the right users and projects for maximum efficiency and productivity. Design and document more structured processes so that results are easily duplicated, and the audit trail is more detailed and complete.

• Establish a single, integrated computing environment. Support new and changing discovery initiatives by extracting valuable knowledge from data efficiently and reliably. Platform’s open, modular architecture ensures that scientists can reliably and transparently share computing resources across remote locations.
• Eliminate costly and resource-intensive dropouts during  in silico¹ simulations and testing. Define reusable pipeline protocols, run exponentially more analyses, accelerate throughput and tackle more complex computations in less time. Faster time to results means failed candidates are identified sooner.
• Measure the impact of informatics on overall business objectives. Collect, correlate and visualize system and process data in order to reduce overall IT budgets, anticipate future expenditures and measure your cost savings achieved through streamlined and effective utilization of IT.
• Access and unify globally dispersed applications and hardware. Platform’s grid computing solutions integrate with and optimize all major life sciences applications and systems hardware, including commercial software and public domain applications.

Platform in Clinical Environments

Enhance patient care in the face of healthcare cutbacks while realizing significant cost savings. An HPC management software solution from Platform gives healthcare workers immediate access to data regardless of its location. It also provides the power for computer-assisted diagnosis and processing sophisticated algorithms to identify clusters of infection or other patterns.

Platform in Pharmaceutical

Manage increasing volumes of data and get drugs to market faster at a fraction of the cost. An HPC management software solution from Platform makes in silico¹ drug screening possible via the creation of virtual supercomputers.

Platform in Biotechnology

Accelerate research, development and discovery initiatives from years to months.  Platform’s HPC management software solutions allow researchers to analyze massive amounts of data more quickly and cost effectively, leading to faster time-to-market and lower development costs.

¹Literally "within silicon"; refers to modeling research conducted with computers only.