SAS announces partnership with Arlenda

New ASP offering for Life Sciences

Tervuren, 1 April, 2004 – SAS®, the leader in business intelligence, announced that Arlenda, a spin-off of the Université de Liège became a SAS Silver Application Partner. Within this partnership, Arlenda offers the pharmaceutical, chemical, environmental and food industries an application - e.noval TM - for validating analytical procedures according to the highest quality standards such as ICH, FDA and ISO through an ASP model (Application Service Provider).

e.novalTM is the ultimate data analysis solution allowing analysts to achieve a successful validation of analytical methods. e.novalTM automatically releases a personalized and validated report required to submit a dossier to regulatory bodies and implements the recommendations by ICH, FDA, Washington Conference and ISO for the validation of analytical procedures. With e.novalTM the validation results are in conformity with those requirements and provide the user with the required self-explanatory dossier. In addition, e.novalTM has been developed, validated and commercialized according to the strongest requirements in development and validation of software such as CFR part 11, BPx and ISO.

e.novalTM allows the use of ten different calibration models and detects the best one according to the objectives of the analytical procedure. e.novalTM also integrates the most recent scientific concepts such as the risk management associated with the routine use of analytical procedures, the risk profile of procedures to produce measurements outside the limits of acceptance as a function of the quantity, and the accuracy profile based on the total error. This accuracy profile is a powerful visual tool allowing the analyst to rapidly evaluate the performance of the procedures and decide if an analytical procedure will fulfill its objectives, in prevalidation or in validation.

e.novalTM is an ASP application (Application Service Provider) accessible on the Internet secured via a user consortium. It’s a “ready for use” solution offering an “easy to use” service based on the power and robustness of SAS. No installation is needed as long as the user has an Internet browser.
The use of e.novalTM is easy, fast and without investment nor maintenance at the laboratory. e.novalTM is available on all the computers in a laboratory regardless of the number of users. No maintenance is required since this service is maintained outside and its availability is guaranteed 24/24h. All upgrades or improvements are immediately accessible without delay or additional installation. Regarding the security, the information exchanged is encrypted and no data or reports are kept on the e.novalTM server.

Arlenda S.A is a Spin-off created at the University of Liège in Belgium by an inter-disciplinary team of experts in laboratory analyses and statistics. The solutions developed by Arlenda result from wide and in depth multi-disciplinary scientific researches conducted in collaboration with industries and representatives of regulatory bodies.
Arlenda uses SAS as a development platform for their solutions and recognizes SAS as the ultimate reference in statistics and numerical computations fulfilling the highest quality standards.

About Arlenda
To achieve its mission successfully, Arlenda synergizes a network of expertise throughout Europe. The mission of Arlenda is to develop, validate and commercialize an integrated suite of industrial solutions dedicated to all phases of analytical procedures, from the early optimization to its routine use, while being compliant to quality requirements. Arlenda develops innovations for laboratories according to three major axes: Quality, Science and Solution.

For more information, visit www.arlenda.com or send an e-mail to info@arlenda.com.