Waters CorporationConnecting Data to Decisions

John SwallowEngineering Principal

Waters Informatics john_swallow@waters.com

Software is integral part of Waters product offering

The Organization

With ~ 450 professionals dealing with informatics solutions in– Research and Development– Services and Support– Sales and Marketing

One of the most powerful informatics organizations in the industry

Waters Laboratory Informatics solutions have a focus on increasing lab productivity and efficiency

Platforms for more ProductivityLaboratories can run multiple integrated Waters applications or choose those that complement current software investments Leverage a single IT application platform and solve enterprise application integration problems easilySupport the complete product life cycle – from discovery to production –with one application suite on a global basis

Waters Laboratory Informatics

Data Storage

Data Visualization

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SystemAdministration

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Portal to applications

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Increasing productivity by increasing collaboration

Interoperability by DefaultAll Waters Laboratory Informatics solutions work seamlessly togetherGuaranteed interoperability provides the best solution for customers on the marketInteroperability across

– platforms – operating systems– organizations

Solutions are designed to understand the content of your data

Vendor independent

Based on international standards

Enterprise data sharing

Enterprise application integration

Knowledge harvesting with less paper

Complient Ready

Compliant ReadyAll Waters Laboratory Informatics products are fully compliant-ready to meet

– 21 CFR Part 11 and 211.– 40 CFR Parts 3, 51, et al.– GxP– GAMPregulations.

Major compliance areas covered include – role and status-based user access and inactivity logouts;– electronic signatures for all documents and information

objects; – full audit trails including system and content audit trails;

The Waters Informatics SolutionsA Complete portfolio of scientific software

Products at a Glance

Waters NuGenesis SDMSWaters Q-DIS/R R&D Workflow Management

Waters Q-DIS/QM LIMSWaters Empower CDS

Waters eLab Notebook

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Waters MassLynx

Oracle Infrastructure

Designed in from the ground up, Informatics Modules include 10g Support

Utilizing :– Embedded Technologies including:

Application Server Technologies- OC4J, Ultra Search Engine,

Database Technologies- 10g DB, OEM, ASM- RAC and GRID Control,

Business Intelligence- Data Mining

Oracle Benefits

Advantages of Oracle products and the features?

– Depth of product offering– Stability and Scalability– Product integration

Advantages of partnering with Oracle?– Industry leader– Training– Input into the development group– Oracle Events

Planned Oracle feature adoption

Waters is changing their license model.– Customers rather than have to purchase a Oracle license

for each product, A single Oracle license would flow through the Informatics Suite.

The new metric will include the Enterprise Editions of– 10g AS, 10g DatabaseAs well as:– Partitioning, Spatial, RAC, Content Management, XML-DB,

Advanced and Label Security