ACD/Labs and Reel Two expect to launch SureChem by earlyMarch, with the date dependent on how quickly 300 gigabytes of patent data canbe processed, says Goncharoff. Portal launch will precede enterprise sales.Although Goncharoff sees SureChem Enterprise as a "top-tier solution" for bigpharma because of its price point, both he and Williams see value in marketingthe portal to other clients, including academic researchers and biotechs thatwork with small molecules.
Reel Two had not finalized pricing at press time, butGoncharoff expects one-year, single-user portal subscriptions to cost around$3,600, with enterprise software running roughly $50,000 to $75,000 annually,including licensing of name-to-structure conversion software, such as ACD/Labs'Name to Structure. Thirty-day portal trials are also available, saysGoncharoff.
The collaboration itself arose after Reel Two heard positivefeedback from customers about the precision of ACD/Labs' structure conversiontools. The companies have a straight licensing agreement for the Web siteversion of SureChem and will take enterprise software sales on a case-by-casebasis because enterprise deals can be complicated. Combining two of the best approaches in the industry,says Williams, has resulted in a synergistic and smooth relationship. "If wesee a success it will continue," he says.
