BILLERICA, Mass., March 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Bruker
Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announced that it has acquired
Arxspan LLC, a provider of cloud-based scientific software and
workflow solutions, based in Southborough, Massachusetts. Arxspan is known
for its line of cloud-based products for the management of research
data under the Arxlab® brand. The company
has a focus on serving pharmaceutical and biopharma customers.
Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Bruker can now provide a range of software tools for
customers in the chemistry, pharmaceutical, biopharma and
analytical laboratory markets. Together with the Mestrelab
strategic partnership and majority investment, the acquisition of
Arxspan will allow Bruker to offer state-of-the-art chemistry and
biopharma software tools, supporting discovery and development.
Commenting on the acquisition, Dr. Falko
Busse, Group President for Bruker Biospin, stated: "The
Arxspan acquisition, coupled with our strategic partnership
with Mestrelab, positions Bruker firmly in the field of
cloud-based, scientific software for our chemistry and pharma
customers. Bruker is committed to providing intuitive end-to-end
solutions that make analysis and knowledge extraction in scientific
research faster and easier. Our new software solutions enable our
biopharma customers to increase their productivity in drug
discovery and development."
Peter Rosati, the CEO and a
co-founder of Arxspan, commented: "We are excited that Arxspan is
now part of a leading global life science tools company. The
merger with Bruker will increase our footprint and help us support
and grow our increasingly global customer base. We are
focused on showing immediate benefits of the merger to our pharma
and biopharma customers. Arxspan's proven enterprise SaaS platform
will be a solid foundation for Bruker's chemistry and biology
informatics offerings."
About Arxspan LLC
Arxspan LLC was founded in 2011 to deliver cloud-based
scientific informatics tools to customers around the globe. That
same year, Arxspan's multi-tenant cloud Electronic Laboratory
Notebook (ELN) was released to customers in the academia and
biotech market place. The ELN was launched with an enterprise-level
feature set designed to support small biotech start-ups as well as
global pharma. Arxspan released the integrated Registration module
in 2013 in collaboration with multiple customers. In 2017, Arxspan
released the Workflow module to enable close coordination of
compound/biologic request and fulfillment between companies and
their external collaborators.
Recently, the Data Publisher was released to simplify the
integration of Arxspan and other enterprise, legacy and AI
data platforms. Today, Arxspan offers a complete
enterprise informatics suite including modules for ELN, Chemical
and Biological Registration, Chemical and Biological Inventory and
Assay Data Management, with system-wide search and reporting
functionality. Arxspan customers/users are based in North America, Asia, India
and Europe. Arxspan continues to
deploy its world-class platforms, tools, services and best-in-class
support to a rapidly growing customer base. For more
information: www.arxspan.com
About Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR)
Bruker is enabling scientists to make breakthrough discoveries
and develop new applications that improve the quality of human
life. Bruker's high-performance scientific instruments and
high-value analytical and diagnostic solutions enable scientists to
explore life and materials at molecular, cellular and microscopic
levels. In close cooperation with our customers, Bruker is enabling
innovation, improved productivity and customer success in life
science molecular research, in applied and pharma applications, in
microscopy and nanoanalysis, and in industrial applications, as
well as in cell biology, preclinical imaging, clinical phenomics
and proteomics research and clinical microbiology. For more
information, please visit: www.bruker.com.
Investor Relations Contact Bruker:
Miroslava Minkova
Director, Investor Relations & Corporate Development
T: +1 (978) 663-3660 x1479
E: miroslava.minkova@bruker.com
Media Contact Bruker:
Thorsten Thiel, Ph.D
VP of Group Marketing
Bruker BioSpin Group
T: +49 (721) 5161–6500
E: thorsten.thiel@bruker.com
Media Contact Arxspan:
General Inquiries:
http://www.arxspan.com
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