Teranode Corporation, the leading innovator of software for the Life Sciences industry, today announced the commercial release of its new Research Intelligence offering, Teranode Fuel. With a focus on tackling the problems that R&D teams are facing today as they seek to efficiently bring better drug candidates forward, Teranode Fuel delivers new insight to R&D decision makers by optimizing the organization’s decision processes. Teranode Fuel is the first commercial product to aggregate information in real-time across a portfolio of all projects and their subjects—including both structured and unstructured data—and automatically generate semantic connections between documents, data silos, and subject area information. Additionally, Fuel’s integrated decision support tools capture, track and display decisions as they are made.

“With their focus on improving drug candidate success rates through collaborations and partnerships, life science companies have created an intensely fragmented information environment,” explained Greg Caressi, Senior Vice President of Healthcare and Life Sciences for Frost & Sullivan. “These companies now struggle with relating and connecting data across all of their sources—whether it’s their data warehouse, document management system, team wiki, or meeting notes. These organizations have begun to look toward new technologies that can help streamline decision-making processes. With its cross-platform approach, semantic connections and decision support capabilities, Teranode Fuel is poised to fill a strong emerging market need of bridging disparate information to assist in decision making, and produce favorable results in an organization.”

Teranode Fuel is part of a new breed of Research Intelligence products that seek to optimize decision processes and deliver new insight to R&D decision makers in Life Sciences. Research Intelligence products take the powerful insight of Business Intelligence technology and combine it with scientific semantic technology, creating a new, Life Science specialized class of products.

“The intelligent insight that Teranode Fuel offers is like a booster rocket for decision making to these organizations. It reaches across the traditional organizational and technical boundaries of the business, and accelerates sound decision-making with increased speed and confidence,” said Joe Duncan, CEO of Teranode. “Our customers are looking to use Fuel to help them build a better pipeline, find good candidates faster, and kill dead-end projects sooner—essentially helping them make the right decisions about drug candidates, faster.”

Key Product Features

Dashboard Plus. Fuel’s Dashboard Plus provides real-time insight across a portfolio, at all levels. Browser-based real-time views aggregate information across projects and their subjects and bring together unstructured and structured data. Powerful drill-down features expose the underlying research data in context.

Semantic Connections. Fuels’ unique Semantic-Relational technology generates relationships between documents, data silos and subject area terminology. Fuel models both process and subject area information in standardized classification schemes or ontologies, and automatically generates connections between the research data and these ontologies.

Decision Support Tools. Fuel’s integrated Decision Support Tools enable users to capture, track and view decisions as they are made. Fuels’ real-time views make it known when decisions need to be made, and decisions are captured and tracked simply and easily, while remaining integrated with the data that supports them.

Technology

Fuel’s unique Semantic-Relational technology combines the flexibility and power of semantic organization with the structured data management of relational database technologies for superior performance. Fuel seamlessly integrates with existing systems and process workflows including Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle 11G, Microsoft Office-based applications and existing document stores. Teranode Fuel can be delivered quickly and easily over the Web and is supported by a Professional Services team who can do the set up work or custom tailor Fuel to specific needs.