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Company
Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Rescentris is a global company that provides electronic laboratory notebook and scientific content management software solutions that enable R&D organizations to create, organize, share, and exploit their knowledge assets. Our product, the Collaborative Electronic Research Framework (CERF), provides a unified desktop for knowledge workers and delivers R&D performance improvements for stakeholders across life sciences research organizations.
Rescentris is dedicated to building long-term relationships with its customer partners. We will do whatever is necessary to understand your challenges and deliver real-world benefits to our clients and end users. This includes a willingness to partner or integrate with whichever systems, procedures, infrastructure and vendors are already in use at your organization.
Because research techniques and laboratory sciences evolve quickly, we are committed to continued improvement to remain at the forefront of the biology ELN market. Our bi-annual product release cycle and diverse partnerships are tailored specifically to help us anticipate and incorporate new workflows, technologies and data types into our product as soon they appear in the sector.
Our Mission
Rescentris focuses on delivering "IT to improve the ROI of R&D™" - its solutions are designed to enhance productivity and decision-making for scientists and R&D managers all over the world by capturing knowledge and intellectual property and disseminating it as unified and personalized views of enterprise discovery.
Corporate History
In the early 2000s, a number of ELNs were under development for use by chemistry and medicinal chemistry organizations. While these systems were useful in the highly structured chemistry world, it became increasingly clear that biology ELN requirements are very different from chemistry ELN needs in a number of critical areas.
Rescentris was formed in late 2002 to better meet the need for a biology-focused electronic lab notebook for the pharmaceutical and life science industries. Biologists tend to work in highly diverse ways and produce many different types of data, so CERF needed to be more flexible than any existing ELN solution. CERF features a simple drag-and-drop interface and the ability to gather and protect any data from any source, combined with easy workflow template creation, and customizable metadata (used for semantic searches). These allow CERF to adapt quickly to extremely diverse environments. Additionally, the use of cross-platform technologies and open standards allows CERF to connect to other data and systems inside or outside of your organization. Although Rescentris originally developed this strategy of simplicity and flexibility to cater to the diverse needs of biologists, it quickly became apparent that CERF’s adaptability and modular, extensible architecture make it an ideal tool for multidisciplinary research in any sector.
Today Rescentris continues to add new modules and technologies which further extend the ability of CERF to work as a secure, compliant, collaborative, multidisciplinary research tool. By choosing just the modules you need, your organization can create a cost-effective solution for R&D, IP protection, document management and data mining in any regulated research environment.
Timeline
| 2009 |
Release of CERF 3.1 and CERF 3.5 including enhanced enterprise integration and project management features.
- Closed Series B funding round to fund corporate growth.
- Approved for $1 million Innovation Ohio Loan for product development.
- CERF wins best of show award at 2009 Bio-IT world.
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| 2008 |
Release of CERF 3.0 with client-driven refinements, Science Desktop™, and greater extensibility.
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| 2007 |
Expanded sales efforts for CERF 2.6 and vastly increased marketplace visibility.
- Closed largest deal to date, for 750 scientists at a single organization.
- CERF named "Best ELN or LIMS product" by Bio-IT World.
- October, 2007 - Rescentris exceeds 35 commercial enterprise installations of its CERF product.
- November, 2007 - Rescentris released 2.7 version of its flagship CERF product to meet growing customer demand for increased flexibility and even greater ease of use.
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| 2006 |
Rescentris launched active sales and marketing efforts, transitioning from a largely technical team focused on product development/refinement.
- April, 2006 - Rescentris raised $1.6 Million in private investment funds based on positive product testimonials by initial customers, and market potential of CERF.
- April, 2006 - Began functional sales program (CERF 2.5.x).
- Named "Best Biological R&D Knowledge Management Platform" by CENSA.
- Received TopCAT award for "Outstanding Service Company of the Year".
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| 2005 |
Commercial deployment of CERF 2.4 software to four customers and initial trials with a number of additional organizations.
- These customers represented a broad sampling of CERF’s customers including: pharmaceuticals, government labs, academic labs, small biotechnology firms, and research institutions.
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| 2004 |
Interactive reviews of CERF 2.0-2.3 products by initial pilot customers.
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| 2003 |
Development, testing, and trial deployments of CERF 1.x software.
- Rescentris worked closely with CENSA (Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Association) to capture ELN requirements for the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry, including the scientific, recordkeeping, and legal/regulatory standards.
- The company’s founders and designers, themselves biologists, had a clear understanding of the role informatics play – as only one component of an Electronic Laboratory Notebook – in meeting the full breadth of needs of a life science researcher.
- The CERF product framework was designed and built from the ground up to meet industry needs for flexibility and extensibility that traditional platforms lacked.
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| 2002 |
Company was established during 2002 and began work on CERF
- Funded by a $6 Million dollar research grant shared with The Ohio State University.
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