CambridgeSoft

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CambridgeSoft, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, is a software and consulting company which supplies consulting, enterprise software, and desktop scientific software to pharmaceutical, chemical, and related industries and research institutes. The company was founded in 1986 by Stewart Rubenstein, then a graduate student in chemistry at nearby Harvard University, and has since remained independent. The desktop software division, the company's founding business group and still a principal focus, is highlighted by the flagship ChemDraw and ChemOffice products. The enterprise and consulting divisions' client lists include the largest global pharmaceutical corporations, major research universities and institutes, and smaller research-focused companies. Practice areas include knowledge management and IP protection, materials management, manufacturing, biological assay data systems, biological process, and chemical discovery information management and analysis. Technologies developed and deployed in these areas include E-Notebook systems, BioAssay data management, Inventory, and Chemical Registration, scientific databases, and Oracle-based back-end components.