DeltaSoft Joins MDL Isentris Alliance; Alliance Program Increases Inte

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    SAN LEANDRO, Calif. & HILLSBOROUGH, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2005--DeltaSoft, a consulting and software company, has joined the MDL(R) Isentris(R) Alliance, an Elsevier MDL program designed to maximize opportunities for life sciences researchers using the new MDL Isentris information management and integration platform. Isentris Alliance is a community of companies joining forces to provide biopharmaceutical companies with research solutions that improve the value of software and services from different vendors.
    "As a key player in the discovery informatics community, DeltaSoft makes an important addition to the Isentris Alliance," said Elsevier MDL CEO Lars Barfod. "By fostering relationships among industry leaders such as DeltaSoft, the Isentris Alliance will provide research organizations with opportunities to leverage existing specialized software and services in comprehensive discovery solutions that improve R&D productivity."
    By partnering in the Isentris Alliance, DeltaSoft strengthens its position for delivering innovative informatics solutions. "DeltaSoft designs flexible software solutions to help scientists reduce discovery cycle times and generate higher quality lead compounds," says Mike Dippolito, President of DeltaSoft. "The resources and relationships of the Isentris Alliance will help us offer our customers an even broader integration capability and more options to create and customize their own integrated informatics systems."
    The innovative MDL Isentris informatics platform provides life sciences organizations with an open environment for integrating complex information and applications. Isentris is the only fully supported, three-tier architecture specifically designed for research that facilitates the integration of an organization's business processes, data and workflow applications. For researchers, the Isentris Alliance brings value to the desktop by facilitating workflow between applications and services from an array of specialized vendors, ultimately supporting the goal of providing a comprehensive, self-service research environment for scientists.
    The Isentris Alliance will take advantage of partner members' core competencies and combine these strengths using the common Isentris platform. The Alliance program helps vendors to work together, share knowledge and explore new opportunities while offering an immediate distribution channel and opportunities for marketing partnerships and development.
    The Isentris Alliance formally begins in July 2005. Contact an Elsevier MDL representative for more information.

    About Elsevier MDL

    Elsevier MDL provides informatics, database and workflow solutions that accelerate the discovery and development of successful new drugs by improving the speed and quality of scientists' decision making. Commercial, academic and government life sciences researchers around the world depend on Elsevier MDL for innovative and reliable discovery informatics software solutions and services augmented by 400 Elsevier chemistry and life sciences journals and related products. For more information, visit www.mdl.com.
    Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, the company publishes more than 1,800 journals and 2,200 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products and online reference works. For more information visit www.elsevier.com.
    Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc, a world-leading publisher and information provider. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange). For more information visit www.reedelsevier.com.

    About DeltaSoft

    DeltaSoft (www.deltasoftinc.com) offers solution-focused software applications and expert services to the research industry. Providing both custom and out-of-the-box products (such as ChemCart, CRISTAL and DeltaBook), DeltaSoft has served large and small organizations across the pharmaceutical, biotech, agrochemical and chemical research and development sectors since 1996. DeltaSoft is comprised of experts in the pharmaceutical and information technology fields who are in a unique position to understand business and technological needs.

    MDL and Isentris are registered trademarks of MDL Information Systems, Inc. ("Elsevier MDL") in the United States. All rights reserved.

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CONTACT: Elsevier MDL Dr. Phil McHale, 510-357-2222 ext. 3541 email: p.mchale@mdl.com or DeltaSoft, Inc. Michael A. Dippolito, 908-595-9777 ext. 11 email: miked@deltasoftinc.com

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