Waters CorporationConnecting Data to Decisions

John SwallowPrincipal Engineer

Waters Data Productsjohn_swallow@waters.com

Waters Corporation

World Leaders in HPLC, Mass Spectrometry & Thermal Analysis– Integrated, hardware, software, column chemistry

and service organizations

Leading provider of scientific software solutions Direct sales/service in 26 offices

serving 54 countries worldwide with over 3,500 employees

Waters Scientific Software Solutions

Complete portfolio of scientific software including instrument control, data collection, data processing, visualization, knowledge management and long term archival

Chromatography Data System (CDS) Mass Spectrometry (MS) Electronic Records Management Electronic Laboratory Notebook

Waters Solutions Benefits Flexible, easy-to-use solutions to organize and

distribute data as knowledge throughout your corporate enterprise

Combine and visualize wide variety analytical data types in one software application for data mining and Warehousing

Intuitive Web user interface for viewing and evaluation of data without vendor specific software

Waters Solutions Benefits State-of-the-art search technology for fast

and intelligent data access Scalable, modular architecture allows

seamless growth from a single workstation to an enterprise-wide system;

Designed for a data-secured regulatory lab environment

Chromatography Data System

Integrated Oracle database to manage chromatographic data and results

More precise peak integration calculations with Waters ApexTrack algorithm;

Advanced detection capabilities such as mass spectrometers or Photodiode Array Detector;

Scalability that allows seamless growth from a single personal workstation to a networked enterprise-wide system;

Control of Waters Alliance HPLC systems as well as third-party HPLC and GC systems

Fully compliant with 21 CFR PART 11

Electronic Records Management Platform-independent, easy to use, 100% web-based

central storage system that collects all types of formerly scattered information as an electronic record to generate a knowledge-based archive. The data stored are accessible by relevant persons at various locations throughout the organization

Simplified data sharing within large enterprises Fully compliant with 21 CFR PART 11

e-record solutions

Electronic Laboratory Notebook Innovative electronic laboratory notebook for all

workplaces in an analytical organization: from chemical, pharmaceutical to biological research as well as for routine work.

Facilitates centralized or distributed long-term storage of knowledge independent of language or type of information.

It provides functionality according to rules of good laboratory notebook practices and provides a robust user interface to data, information, knowledge management, and logistics systems.

Oracle Features Used Today & How Run on Oracle release #

– Mass Spectrometry – 8.1.6– Chromatography - 9.0.1– Bioinformatics - 9.2

List the Oracle features used: e.g. – XML-DB, Ultra Search, Data Mining, OEM– Embedded database

What projects you are working on with Oracle? – Oracle 10g Beta– Oracle applications server migration

Oracle Benefits

What do you like about Oracle products and the features?

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

What are the business benefits of partnering with Oracle?

– Industry leader– Training

Planned Oracle features to be adopted in the future Oracle Features you plan to use

– Additional application / feature set integration OEM, Partitioning

Describe your planned project, if any, with Oracle.

– Migration of our middleware products to the Oracle AS product

– Oracle 10G product migration– Evaluation of Oracles Grid Technology’s