SysArris Software forms alliance with IBM India to address the Life Sciences Market

SysArris Software India Pvt. Ltd, a leading software solutions provider and IBM India Limited today announced a marketing alliance in India to deliver comprehensive solutions to the Life Sciences Market.

SysArris Software forms alliance with IBM India
to address the Life Sciences Market

Bangalore, September 12, 2002

SysArris Software India Pvt. Ltd, a leading software solutions provider and IBM India Limited today announced a marketing alliance in India to deliver comprehensive solutions to the Life Sciences Market. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will market and sell SysArriss branded applications solutions on IBM platforms and IBM WebSphere Software. IBM India will provide infrastructure support for porting SysArris Softwares products on IBM platforms to the Life Sciences Market.

SysArris Softwares flagship products include OligoSys a life sciences solution. SysArris Software and IBM alliance will address the fast growing Bio-informatics segment in the Life Sciences Market. The implementation of these highly flexible and scaleable solutions running even on Linux platform will allow user companies to keep adding modules as their business grows.

The High Performance Computing arena is at the forefront of Information Technology and is reliant on compute intensive applications to solve the world's most challenging and demanding problems like human genomics, oil exploration, automotive or aerospace design, weather forecasting and. In this market, IBM has established itself as a leader with more Supercomputers in the Top 10 of the Top 500 Supercomputers Worldwide than any other IT vendor.

IBM eServer xSeries are the most technologically advanced, easy to use Intel platform with record-breaking server capabilities. IBM WebSphere software product is the market-leading Internet infrastructure software for creating, running and integrating e-business applications across a variety of computing platforms which is built on open standards and endowed with IBM's core strengths of reliability, scalability and security.

Mr. Ajaysimha, Director, SysArris Software, said, SysArris has developed its new generation life sciences solution on IBMs Websphere. This alliance would help us to go to a customer with comprehensive solutions."

Life Sciences Segment is a key focus area for IBM India". Said Mr. Frank Luksic, Country Executive, Software Group and Developer Relations, IBM India. The IBM - SysArris Software marketing alliance is another example of IBM's commitment to go-to-market with leading independent software vendors. The goal is to provide developers with access to new customers and revenue opportunities through IBM's marketing, sales, and solutions resources. SysArris will promote IBM as a preferred solutions and services provider, on jointly led sales to new customers in Life Sciences market. This alliance strengthens the capabilities of both partners to provide total solutions for greater customer satisfaction"

As a part of this alliance SysArris in association with IBM, recently hosted a joint seminar in Hyderabad, on the benefits of this association and offerings for customers in south India. The seminar gave an insight into the relevance and benefits of High Performance Computing and the ability of SysArris and IBM to provide the best solutions.

A presentation on the topic "Application Trends in Biotechnology" was presented by SysArris at the seminar. Mr. Naveen Kulkarni principal consultant spoke about the SysArris offerings on the High Performance Computing solutions using IBM technologies. The seminar also highlighted the existing and emerging opportunities in India and specifically for the Life Sciences Market in South India. SysArris and IBM have planned to host similar joint seminar in the near future.

About SysArris:
SysArris since its inception in 1994 has been providing software services to the pharmaceutical companies to manage the entire drug life cycle. It is SysArris' strategy to extend the services to the upstream segment of the life science industry. The bioinformatics division of SysArris is focused on providing targeted solutions in the area of High Performance Computing. SysArris has developed Bioinformatics tools in these areas.

About IBM
IBMs High Performance Computing (HPC) business includes scientific workstations, supercomputer systems, high-speed networks, special purpose and experimental systems, large scalable parallel systems, and application and systems software with all components well integrated, balanced and linked with a scalable high-speed interconnect fabric.

IBM designs HPC solutions that map directly to customer needs, whether it is a government lab running multi-million dollar tests, or an engineer managing a complex design project. The HPC division focuses on a unique set of technical requirements in the Industrial and Public Sectors targeted at researchers, engineers, designers, biologists, chemists and lab directors as these applications are primarily used for high precision, scientific and technology computation applications.