ASTRAZENECA SELECTS SINEQUA TO SUPPORT ITS WORLDWIDE R&D

PARIS, FRANCE - Feb 25, 2014 - Sinequa, one of the leading software companies in the market for Real-Time Big Data Search & Analytics, is proud to announce an important contract with AstraZeneca, one of the global leaders in the biopharmaceutical industry.

AstraZeneca was looking for an enterprise-scale search platform to support the R&D organization across the globe. After a head-to-head competition, Sinequa was selected due to its comprehensive semantic analysis and text-mining capabilities, tunable relevance algorithms and the large number of out-of-the box connectors to heterogeneous data sources.
Initially, AstraZeneca will use Sinequa for R&D in order to enable its scientists to find relevant information concerning drugs, diseases and genes as well as a variety of other scientific concepts. Around 200 million internal and external documents will be indexed and a variety of mobile business applications will be built on top of this content.

"This is a major deal for Sinequa, and it confirms - in our view - that there is a new market for Search & Analytics in the Big Data era with ever more powerful use cases that have moved to the core of the business of user organizations", says Xavier Pornain, VP Sales and Alliances of Sinequa.

"We have found a partner with Sinequa that brings a next generation search platform and will innovate closely with us. In only a few months, we have indexed tens of millions of documents and delivered cutting edge business applications to our users. We are excited to see what the future of big data analytics is together" said Nick Brown, Associate Director, R&D Information at AstraZeneca.

About Sinequa
Sinequa provides a real-time Big Data Search & Analytics platform for Fortune Global 2000 companies and government agencies. It offers users Unified Information Access to all textual and database data, supported by powerful analytics. Strong visualization enables intuitive and conversational discovery of actionable information. More than 250 of the world's largest and most information-intensive organizations rely on Sinequa to put business critical information at the fingertips of their employees, including Airbus, AstraZeneca, Atos, Biogen Idec, Credit Agricole, Mercer, and Siemens. Based in Paris, with offices in Frankfurt and London, Sinequa develops its expertise and its business across the world with an important network of technology and business partners.