Testimonials

 

 Your technology, with its data value level locking capabilities, represents a significant progression in the reduction of "lock contention," and I believe there is great value in the "indexed addressing" aspects of your three-attribute style of simultaneous data key identification and logical storage location. I see significant opportunity for "speed of data accessing" optimization of your data structures that nicely leverage our company's exceptionally high-speed disk accessing technology.

I can see where such a combination will provide unique performance advantages to database operations, over and above the strengths of each of the technologies.

This could be one of those rare synergistic interactions that truly do make 1 + 1 = 3 units of improvements.

 Your product's promise of allowing dynamic changes to the data model and database is unique. This would address the issue of the data warehouse lagging behind changes in the business and transaction-processing applications.

Additionally your query flexibility, powerful data-mining-like search capabilities and opportunities for users to do more query definition for themselves, are appealing.

Finally, the promise of significantly reduced development and operational effort and cost is a key business driver in today's depressed economy.

 I have been very impressed with the discussions we have had regarding the Cellular Database. I think the best ideas are always simple and this design seems like a genuine breakthrough.

 

I believe you (Infobionics) offer advantages in several critical areas:

• Simplicity. Your cellular database technology is far simpler than today’s overly complex database engines, which require highly skilled, very experienced database designers.
  
• Performance. Your elegant design will deliver excellent performance, particularly for the increasingly vital applications to analyze the vast amounts of information businesses generate today. In addition, because you have a simpler and more consistent architecture, companies will no longer see the large gap between the promised performance and the performance they actually see in the applications they deploy.
  
• Dynamic Data Models. You offer a wonderful challenge to today’s premise that the “right” way to design databases for an organization is to develop a complex and formal logical data model. The reality is few companies have succeeded at this and even those that have, find that their formal data model leaves more and more information behind as the organization evolves over time.
  
• Enabling Rapid Results. Our fundamental methodologies for designing databases haven’t changed in decades and they now represent a barrier to change rather than an enabler of it. In our reengineering initiatives, we tell our clients they can, and must, design their new processes in days or weeks. This causes a real conflict when it takes months or years to change the organization’s rigid data model.
  
• Delivering Information. In virtually every business, senior executives and mid-level management continue to be enormously frustrated by the barriers between them and their information. Your technology gives us a chance to “raise the bar” and deliver timely, accurate information directly to these individuals in a way they can use it (a concept I call “Simple Normal Form”).
  
• XML Support. More and more industries are adopting XML as they link together business partners at all levels. Your technology offers a clear and simple path to enable integration within a business and between businesses.
  

 The promise of the Cellular Database is to effectively manage the exponentially increasing quantity and complexity of biological and neurological data – none of which have any 'pre-defined' model – and thereby to re-accelerate the rate at which human understanding of biology will be able to develop and be used to common benefit.

 What I realized is that your technology implements a layer on top of the basic database concept that allows for the representation, storage, and management of semantically rich data. This is of particular interest for us in the biotechnology space.

Typically, companies that need to represent knowledge-based concepts in a database have to implement the knowledge constructs from scratch. I have had to do this three times. It often takes a man-year of effort to get a rudimentary system up.

 DNA micro array technology is a revolutionary technology that has become an indispensable tool for global gene expression profiling.

DNA micro arrays are used to measure gene expression for many thousands of genes simultaneously in a single experiment and to compare expression profiles between different samples. Therefore, DNA micro arrays provide a high-throughput method to determine genetic alterations underlying disease etiology and response to treatment.

DNA micro arrays produce a large amount of heterogeneous data, including array images, experimental protocols, statistical analyses, graphs and plots, and values for other variables.

Current databases are grossly unsuitable for managing the DNA micro array data. The unique characteristics of the Infobionics database make it eminently suitable for storing and searching micro array data.