October 19, 2006, Pune: Persistent Systems today announced establishing a partnership with Microsoft, to become a part of the BioIT Alliance.

Through this partnership, Persistent will leverage its core strength in data integration, data mining & data analysis and provide the Alliance with solutions and tools to analyze, integrate and disseminate data quickly and effortlessly.

Commenting on this partnership, Aditya Pathak, Product Manager, Life Sciences - Persistent Systems said, "For the last eight years, Persistent's Life Sciences team, which is into developing software solutions and tools in the discovery, clinical and pre clinical research workspaces, has been providing support to leading research institutes in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. This Alliance has only strengthened our proficiency in the Life Sciences area."

The BioIT Alliance is a cross-industry group working to integrate science and technology with a view to shorten the time from discovery to application of new biological knowledge. Its aim is to explore new methods of sharing complex biomedical data by encouraging multi-disciplinary collaboration in order to ultimately speed the pace of drug discovery and development.

The Life Sciences solutions group at Persistent focuses mainly on systems biology, translational medicine and lab automation. With a core domain knowledge the team has successfully provided solutions for Genomics, Proteomics, Clinical informatics and Cheminformatics. Persistent has developed expertise and reusable software components that help in providing services ranging from data integration and warehousing to compliance and analytics.

About Persistent Systems:

Persistent Systems is one of the leading players in the Software Product Development Industry. Persistent pioneered the offshore centric product development model 16 years ago, and has since established an impeccable delivery record with more than 800 release cycles and over 170 clients, ranging from start ups to matured companies.

With a highly skilled team of more than 2700 software professionals (Nov. 2006), world-class processes, infrastructure and experience, Persistent today offers customers unmatched capability in leverage cutting-edge skills, reduce time-to-market, rationalize product development budget and optimize end-to-end product development.

About BioIT Alliance: Spearheaded by Microsoft, BioIT Alliance was formed in April 2006, and comprises pharmaceutical, biotech, hardware, and software industries. Their aim is to explore new methods of sharing complex biomedical data by encouraging multi-disciplinary collaboration in order to ultimately speed the pace of drug discovery and development. This would bring together science and technology leaders to consider innovative ways to address these challenges.