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| LabVantage™ Signs Software and Services Agreement with Unilever North America |
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Bridgewater, NJ February 20, 2002. LabVantage Sapphire™is selected by Unilever North America to support its Information Program
LabVantage Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of virtual laboratory solutions for LIMS and Scientific Information Productionsm (SIPsm) for discovery, announced today that Unilever North America has signed a software and services agreement for LabVantage Sapphire™. Unilever is ranked 54th in the Global Fortune 500 with 295,000 employees in almost 100 countries. Unilever will be using Sapphire™ to further automate and improve the dissemination of chemical analysis, stability study, microbiology, enzyme testing and bio-performance information.
For more than 70 years, Unilever has been providing consumers with quality products and services. They have a portfolio of global, regional, and local brands. Some of the best known brands in North America include: All, Close-up, Degree, Dove, Pond's, Q-Tips, Suave, Snuggle, Thermasilk, Vaseline and Wisk, as well as, Lipton, Ragu, and Skippy Peanut Butter.
Unilever Home & Personal Care's business drivers are to standardize various laboratory procedures and operations across their North American Research and Development organizations and to streamline reporting and information sharing processes with intelligent workflow automation. They also were searching for technology that could be deployed in a true browser/server environment from a single instance and still be flexible enough to meet the needs of multiple sites to minimize IT operating costs.
"Unilever's Path to Growth strategy - which, among other things, calls for a focus of resources on research and development efforts across the organization - is the main initiative that prompted the North American Home & Personal Care group to address laboratory requirements in research and development," said Susan McCann, business/IT area manager, Unilever Home & Personal Care-North America. McCann also stated, "LabVantage really impressed us with their ability to listen and understand our business requirements and demonstrate how Sapphire™ would help us achieve our objectives. Sapphire™'s browser/server technology and flexible workflow automation capabilities will enable us to quickly and easily share information beyond the traditional laboratory's four walls."
Dr. Priscilla Walling, director of measurement science at Unilever commented, "Unilever R&D sought an application that went beyond the simple reporting of chemical analysis data. Knowledge Management for the entire testing and screening process at the understanding level was the goal. In addition, the chosen solution needed to be completely integratable with other software packages supporting other R&D processes. LabVantage demonstrated that solution."
LabVantage Sapphire™ - Rich Technology and Extensive Functionality Framework. LabVantage Sapphire™ is an information solution with rich technology that provides flexible, visual workflow capability for today's leading laboratories and research institutes.
Key functional elements available in LabVantage Sapphire™ include:
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Rapid and efficient sample, batch and lot login. |
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Specification limit tracking by customer, product or any other attribute. |
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Certificate of Analysis and other key report generation. |
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Data approval, SOP and auditing capabilities. |
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Instrument calibration and integration |
"I am proud that Unilever has selected LabVantage as the preferred solution provider to modernize its research and development organization in North America," said Jim Aurelio, president, LabVantage. Aurelio continued, "Sapphire™ consistently excels in businesses that require rich laboratory management functionality, flexible workflow automation capabilities and a better way to share information with internal and external customers-what we think of as the virtual laboratory."
About Unilever. Unilever (NYSE: UN, UL) is one of the world's largest consumer products companies with annual sales of EUR 47 billion in 2000. It produces and markets a wide range of foods and home and personal care products. Among its best-known global brands are Dove, Lipton, Knorr and Hellmann's. Unilever operates in 88 countries around the globe and employs approximately 295,000 people. For additional information on Unilever, visit www.unilever.com.
About LabVantage Solutions. LabVantage Solutions, a Chatterjee Group company, is helping to build the virtual laboratory and is the leader in Scientific Information Productionsm. LabVantage helps customers move beyond the traditional four walls of the laboratory with solutions that enable information sharing via intranets and extranets. LabVantage has a complete suite of software for high throughput screening, genomics, proteomics and LIMS. LabVantage products stand out in the areas of: workflow process automation, open database modeling and in the ability to integrate multiple data sources into a single interface. The company also offers services that ensure customer success such as industry and technology consulting, implementation services, application training and extensive customer support services. LabVantage has provided information solutions to nearly 1,000 companies since 1981. For further information about LabVantage Solutions, please visit our Web site at www.labvantage.com.
Certain statements contained in this release may be forward-looking statements and are thus prospective. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. |
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