Accelrys Announces 2012 US Tech Summit for IT Professionals

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, today announced its fourth US Tech Summit for Accelrys customers with IT responsibilities. This free-to-attend event, taking place October 16-17 at the Hyatt Morristown in New Jersey, will provide the opportunity for enterprise architects, software administrators and software developers to better understand how to manage, support and integrate the Accelrys Enterprise Platform and other Accelrys products into existing IT environments, improving the efficiency of both information technology professionals and the end users they support.

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"This year's US Tech Summit will address IT-related topics such as performance, upgrades, administration, integration and preparation for the next versions of many of our products to support improved scientific innovation lifecycle management for organizations of all sizes across the industries we serve," said Anil Thakur, senior vice president of product development at Accelrys. "We will take a deep technical dive into Accelrys solutions and address IT best practices focused on the Accelrys Enterprise Platform, Accelrys Isentris, Accelrys ELN (previously Symyx Notebook by Accelrys) and Accelrys Lab Execution System (previously VelQuest SmartLabs)."

In addition to presentations on the Accelrys product portfolio, technology previews and partner sessions, the Tech Summit agenda will offer three dedicated tracks with interactive sessions addressing:

• Accelrys Enterprise Platform
  
  Including upcoming architecture changes, security enhancements, chemistry data model enhancements, server pool management and deployment considerations
• Accelrys Applications
  
  Including the latest Accelrys ELN release, Accelrys ELN administration and configuration management, what's new in Isentris, as well as Isentris integration with the Accelrys Enterprise Platform
• Developers
  
  Including Accelrys Draw as a toolkit for developers, Accelrys Query Service technology and tools, Pipeline Pilot advanced protocol topics and extending Pipeline Pilot with third-party tools

For registration and accommodation information, including a detailed agenda with track and presentation descriptions, visit the Accelrys US Tech Summit website.

About Accelrys, Inc.

Accelrys (NASDAQ:ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, supports industries and organizations that rely on scientific innovation to differentiate themselves. The industry-leading Accelrys Enterprise Platform provides a broad, flexible scientific solution optimized to integrate the diversity of science, experimental processes and information requirements across the research, development, process scale-up and early manufacturing phases of product development. By incorporating capabilities in applications for modeling and simulation, enterprise lab management, workflow and automation, and data management and informatics, Accelrys enables scientific innovators to access, organize, analyze and share data in unprecedented ways, ultimately enhancing innovation, improving productivity and compliance, reducing costs and speeding time from lab to market.

Accelrys solutions are used by more than 1,300 customers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, energy, chemicals, aerospace, consumer packaged goods and industrial products industries. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Accelrys employs more than 200 full-time PhD scientists. For more information about Accelrys, visit www.accelrys.com.

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