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TRW Smart Charts (1993-1995)
1993
"Infosight" defense conversion venture launched at ESL (a subsidiary of TRW Space & Defense in Sunnyvale CA). Diane Webb is the product leader.
1994
March: TRW Business Intelligence Systems is established by ESL to develop commercial software products.
August: TRW Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals 1.0 is released with support for searching and creating tabular reports from Pharmaprojects on DataStar.
1995
February: TRW Business Intelligence Systems joins TRW Business Credit Services.
BizInt Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 add support for more files on DataStar - IMS R&D Focus, Adis R&D Insight and Adis LMS Alerts.
December: TRW ceases development and marketing of BizInt Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals.
BizInt Smart Charts (1996 - present)
1996
November: Diane Webb and John Willmore purchase Smart Charts assets from Experian and establish BizInt Solutions in Orange, California.
December: BizInt Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals 1.4 is released by BizInt Solutions and demonstrated at the Online Information meeting in London.
1997
August: BizInt Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals 2.0 is released with support for TDR IPD and HTML export. BizInt Smart Charts Viewer 1.0 is also released.
December: BizInt Solutions delivers DataStar Web Charts, a custom version of BizInt Smart Charts which creates "simple charts" from any database on DataStar.
1998
First prototypes of BizInt Smart Charts "Plus" combining reports from multiple databases into a single chart.
August: BizInt Smart Charts for Patents 1.0 is released with support for Derwent World Patents Index on STN. Images are supported for the first time.
1999
October: BizInt Smart Charts for Patents 2.0 adds support for Questel*Orbit, IFI CLAIMS, and API/Derwent Merged File.
2000
March: BizInt Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals 2.1 introduces the ability to create a combined report from Pharmaprojects, R&D Focus, and R&D Insight on DataStar, Lotus Notes and CD-ROM.
First "Surfing the Pipeline" case study comparing drug pipeline coverage and content is prepared for Amgen.
August: BizInt Smart Charts for Patents 2.1 adds support for CA/CAplus on STN and patent databases on Dialog.
October: BizInt Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals 2.2 adds support for the IDdb and pipeline databases on Dialog.
2001
March: BizInt Smart Charts for Patents 2.2 adds 32-bit Windows support and an ability to generate statistics.
April: BizInt Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals 2.3 adds 32-bit Windows support, NDA Pipeline and Prous Drug Data Report on Dialog, and support for the new Adis Insight web platform.
BizInt Web Charts for Adis Insight (a custom version of BizInt Smart Charts) provides report capabilities for the new Adis Insight internet platform.
November: 5th Anniversary of BizInt Solutions
2002
August: BizInt Smart Charts for Patents 2.3 adds support for MicroPatent and biomedical literature databases on STN and Dialog.
October: BizInt Smart Charts for Pharmaceuticals 2.4 introduces the "Generate Common Drug Name" command to identify related compounds across different pipeline databases. Support for pipeline databases on Ovid is also added.
October: "Surfing the Pipeline: Comparing the coverage and content of drugs-in-development databases" presented by Diane Webb at the International Chemical Information Conference in Nimes, France.
2003
"Surfing the Pipeline" workshops presented in locations around the US.
May: "The Dachshunds of Costello" are on display at the PIUG Annual Conference in Chicago.
2004
January: Citeline licenses BizInt Web Charts-Trial Trove Edition as a reporting tool for its TrialTrove internet platform.
August: BizInt Smart Charts for Drug Pipelines 3.0 is released, adding support for Prous Integrity and Citeline TrialTrove, plus enhanced support for IDdb.
2005
February: BizInt Smart Charts for Patents 3.0 adds support for Delphion and for generating links from patent numbers to full text patents on MicroPatent and Delphion.
August: BizInt Solutions, Inc. is incorporated in California.
October: BizInt Smart Charts for Patents 3.1 adds support for SciFinder and more literature databases on STN and Dialog.
2006
January: BizInt Smart Charts for Drug Pipelines 3.1 adds support for links back to records on IDdb and R&D Insight web platforms.
September: BizInt Smart Charts for Patents 3.2 introduces the "Identify Common Patent Families" tool, which automatically matches patent family members across different databases and hosts. Support is added for Prous Integrity, IDdb patents, and GenomeQuest.
October: BizInt Smart Charts for Drug Pipelines 3.2 introduces chart updating features and support for Adis Clinical Trials Insight.
November: "Surfing the Pipeline: Tracking Changes in Drugs-in-development Databases" presented by John Willmore at the Pharma-Bio-Med conference in Lisbon.
November: BizInt Solutions celebrates its 10th Anniversary.
2007
October: BizInt Smart Charts for Patents 3.3 introduces new updating and combining features as well as support for PatBase and links to full-text patents on PatentOrder, espacenet and USPTO.
October: BizInt Smart Charts for Drug Pipelines 3.3 introduces new updating and combining features including detecting changes in updated reports.
2008
Development begins on Version 4.0, a new generation of BizInt Smart Charts which will create "reference rows" combining information from related records into a single row in reports.
June: "Surfing the Pipeline – Drug Portfolio Analysis" presented by Diane Webb at SLA 2008 Annual Conference in Seattle WA