10-Year Evolution of Life Sciences Software Products Used by GSK and AstraZeneca

Customer

The Customer is a world-famous provider of laboratory and analytical equipment and instruments used in medicine and other spheres where precision is of a great value.

Challenge

As a leading provider of enterprise solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries, the Customer needed an outsourced development and permanent support team with chemistry and biochemistry degree.

Solution and Results

ScienceSoft's team successfully released numerous important customized versions of one of the Customer product for large pharmaceutical companies, such as GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) and AstraZeneca.

For another Customer’s product ScienceSoft's team significantly improved the application functionality by introducing new component, which transforms visualized chemistry elements into text names of chemistry components.

ScienceSoft’s team has been scaling throughout the cooperation and now constitutes 8 specialists working on the applications’ development, testing, and support.

Technologies and Tools

E-Notebook application: Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Basic.NET, .NET Framework 1.1/2.0, ADO and ADO.NET, Oracle 9/10, MSSQL, Microsoft Office 2002/2003/2007 object libraries; Adobe Acrobat 6.0/7.0 object library.

ChemOffice application: Microsoft C++ 6.0/unmanaged C++.NET