Accelrys Acquires VelQuest Corporation for $35 Million in Cash

Extends reach downstream in the lab-to-market value chain with addition of industry-leading lab execution and data capture software

SAN DIEGO, January 3, 2012 – Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading scientific enterprise research and development software and services company, today announced that it has acquired privately-held VelQuest Corporation for $35 million in an all-cash transaction. VelQuest is the leader in paperless lab execution systems supporting current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) for FDA-regulated industries including pharmaceuticals and biotechnology organizations. Accelrys’ acquisition of VelQuest extends Accelrys’ software portfolio into the downstream pharmaceutical development Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) space, offering significant productivity improvements, faster cycle times, lower operational costs and reduced compliance risks for regulated life sciences organizations.

Operational Excellence for Product Development in Regulated Process Industries

HOPKINTON, MA, September 26, 2011 – VelQuest Corporation, the leader in laboratory execution systems and data acquisition software for regulated life science industries, is pleased to announce that VelQuest President and CEO Ken Rapp will present at Oracle OpenWorld 2011.

VelQuest will be in Caguas and Dorado, Puerto Rico in October for "lunch and learn" seminars on cGMP informatics to support operational excellence from the development and quality control laboratories to the manufacturing plant.

November 14-17, 2011 | Garden State Exhibit Center

Somerset, NJ

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September 19-23, 2011

Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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VelQuest Webinar with AstraZeneca Offers Strategies for Productivity and GMP Compliance in Microbiological and Environmental Monitoring

SmartLab EM Improves Efficiency and Reduces Errors in Sterile Manufacturing

New Microbiological and Environmental Monitoring System Cuts Risk for Batch Rejection

VelQuest SmartLab EM Improves Efficiency, Cuts Errors in Aseptic Process Monitoring

Technology partnership enables real-time availability of plant and lab data.

Parsippany, NJ, and Hopkinton, MA, April 6, 2010 — Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) vendor Werum Software & Systems America and VelQuest® Corporation, the developer of the SmartLab™ GMP Lab Execution System/ELN, announced today, a technology partnership that integrates Werum’s PAS-X MES software with the VelQuest SmartLab Automated Quality System platform providing a linkage for a plant-based manufacturing database including critical process parameters and QC lab-based critical quality attributes.

VelQuest and Clarkston Consulting Partner to Eliminate Need for Traditional LIMS in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Partnership provides integration of the SAP Quality Management module with the VelQuest SmartLab Lab Execution System for a streamlined alternative to LIMS for automated Quality lab operations in Life Sciences.

VelQuest® and Aegis Analytical Partner for Discoverant™ Integration to SmartLab™ Lab Execution System: Provides Plant-to-QC Lab Data Integration for Operational Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Operational Excellence program at Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company enhanced by Aegis and VelQuest technology partnership, which merges manufacturing plant and quality control lab data to enable correlation of critical process parameters (CPP's) and critical quality attributes (CQA's).