A 10-Year Evolution of Life Sciences Software Products for a Lab Equipment Provider
Summary
Over a partnership spanning more than ten years, INNERLUXES has provided a dedicated team to develop, test, and support the life-sciences software products of a leading laboratory and analytical equipment provider — releasing customized product versions for major pharmaceutical companies and extending the applications with new chemistry-focused functionality.
About the Client
The Client is a leading provider of laboratory and analytical equipment and instruments used in medicine and other fields where precision is critical. It is also a provider of enterprise software solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries.
The Need for a Specialized, Long-Term Product Team
As a leading provider of enterprise solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries, the Client needed an outsourced development and ongoing support team — one whose engineers combined software expertise with chemistry and biochemistry backgrounds to work confidently on its scientific applications.
A Decade of Product Development, Testing, and Support
INNERLUXES's team has successfully released numerous important customized versions of one of the Client's products for major pharmaceutical companies. For another of the Client's products, the team significantly improved the application by introducing a new component that transforms visualized chemistry elements into the text names of chemical components.
The dedicated team has scaled throughout the cooperation — ranging from 8 to 29 specialists over the engagement — and currently comprises eight specialists working on the applications' development, testing, and support.
- A long-term, chemistry-literate product team integrated with the Client's engineering for more than ten years.
- Customized product releases delivered for major pharmaceutical companies.
- New functionality that converts visual chemistry structures into chemical-component names.
Technologies and Tools
Electronic notebook application: Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Basic.NET, .NET Framework 1.1/2.0, ADO and ADO.NET, Oracle 9/10, MS SQL Server, Microsoft Office 2002/2003/2007 object libraries, Adobe Acrobat 6.0/7.0 object library.
Chemistry drawing application: Microsoft C++ 6.0 / unmanaged C++.NET.