SCIMAGIX COMPLETES TESTING UNDER IBM's TotalStorage™ PROVEN PROGRAM

Customers Assured of Image Informatics Solution's Storage Performance and Scalability

SAN MATEO, Calif. – July 10, 2003 - Scimagix™ Inc., a pioneer of enterprise image informatics solutions for pharmaceutical and biotechnology research and development (R&D), today announced that the its Scientific Image Management System (SIMS™) software has earned IBM TotalStorage Proven certification.

The IBM TotalStorage Proven program builds on IBM's already extensive interoperability efforts to develop and deliver products and solutions that work together. The program supports the ability of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to build high-quality solutions with the latest technology on leading storage platforms, as well as reduce solution design time.

SIMS™, the infrastructure platform of Scimagix's enterprise image management system, allows scientists to search, mine and analyze image data, and to integrate image data with other types of research data and share it throughout their organizations. Testing took place at the IBM Solution Partnership Center in San Mateo, CA, and evaluated SIMS™ performance, scalability, data archiving and storage capabilities on an IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server, (code named Shark) and an IBM TotalStorage FAStT700 Storage Server.

The ability to effectively manage the high volumes of image and image related data generated by drug discovery researchers today represents a significant competitive advantage for pharmaceutical companies. With demands for data to be highly available, researchers cannot afford to experience data loss brought on by hardware or software related failure in High Content Screening (HCS) environments or other applications where images are generated. By successfully completing IBM's certification program, Scimagix customers are granted a higher level of confidence in the interoperability and scalability of the two companies' platforms.

“We recognize the importance of making the right storage decision in an HCS environment and the multitude of applications where images represent the experimental result – up to 70% of the experiments run in pharmaceutical R&D. Capturing this data in a knowledge repository, such as SIMS™, allows researchers to archive and mine massive amounts of image and image related meta data to help better interpret and understand biological mechanisms,” said Robert Dunkle, CEO of Scimagix. “IBM's validation of SIMS™ assures our customers that they are investing in a highly scalable and reliable storage system that meets the rigors of the most advanced image informatics application for drug discovery available today. We are pleased to collaborate with industry leaders like IBM and look forward to building on relationships like these to help our customers achieve their research goals.”

“As purse strings tighten, companies cannot afford to spend valuable financial or human resources to replace lost research data,” said Bob Shapiro, Life Sciences Storage Business Unit Executive, IBM. “Having participated in the TotalStorage Proven Program, Scimagix can better ensure that its customers will receive reliable implementations that guard against data loss due to unforeseen disruption.”

The IBM TotalStorage Proven program offers the ability for ISVs to build high-quality solutions with the latest technology on leading storage platforms as well as reduce solution design time when multiple, tested building blocks have already been tested and verified.

Image informatics is the integration of valuable image and non-image data to better understand biology and reach better decisions. SIMS™ is the only open, scalable, Web-deployed enterprise image management system that enables compliance with 21 CFR Part 11 standards for electronic data submission to the FDA. The enterprise-wide, multi-site software system, designed for image data, allows scientists to search, mine, analyze and share results.

About Scimagix Inc.
Scimagix™ Inc., based in San Mateo, Calif., is the leading provider of image informatics solutions for pharmaceutical research and development (R&D). Its flagship SIMS™ (Scientific Image Management System) platform, an Oracle®/Web-based database management system, utilizes open architecture to deliver a comprehensive and searchable image database. Image informatics technology integrates valuable image and non-image data into SIMS™, allowing scientists to search, mine and analyze all results. ProteinMine™, running on top of SIMS™, supports high throughput analysis and mining of image data with proprietary visual content search technology, dramatically increasing the accuracy and productivity of R&D processes. Scimagix serves most of the top 15 pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer Global R&D, Hoffmann La Roche and Eli Lilly & Co.