Amersham Pharmacia Biotech

Bjorkgatan, Sweden

Amersham Pharmacia Biotech (APB) is a leading global provider of biotechnology systems, products and services used in gene and protein research, drug discovery and development, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. With more than 50,000 customers including pharmaceutical, biotechnology and agrochemical companies, research institutes, universities and medical research centers, APB has annual sales of $860 million and 4,500 employees worldwide.

Amersham Pharmacia Biotech has a global sales force covering more than 30 countries. The company's sales agents rely upon Stampede Technologies' TurboGold 4.0 Client-to-Server software to cut costly connection times for their desktops and laptops in the field.

Notes Infrastructure Manager Hans Ericsson was seeking a tested solution that addressed APB's growing need to contain expanding communications traffic demands on its network.

"Our prime concern was to reduce time and cost for WAN and dial-in mobile users," said Ericsson. "TurboGold has allowed us to contain those costs quickly and with minimum installation issues. The compression function has been extremely effective in accelerating the replication of user databases."

TurboGold Client-to-Server is being used by Amersham's international sales force as a key tool for competitive advantage. By capitalizing on TurboGold 4.0's patented caching, compression and streaming technologies, APB has reduced traffic and increased bandwidth across the entire network. Stampede's award-winning TurboGold technology allows Notes data to be "pushed" back to the Domino server at the same speed exhibited when data is "pulled" from the Domino server. The result is accelerated Notes data in both directions-up to 5 times faster with the TurboGold accelerator. TurboGold runs as an add-in task on Domino servers, and is installed through a simple, automated Windows routine.

Ericsson notes Stampede Technologies' TurboGold will fight the "Lotus Lag"-the problem of decreased performance caused by growing replication needs across the collaborative network-with award-winning, highly scalable and robust architecture.

"The TurboGold roll out has been a success with both our mobile clients and servers," says Ericsson. "The organization wins as a whole when the decision-making process accelerates across the board."

Amersham Pharmacia Biotech is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.amershambiosciences.com