Accelrys Releases the SciTegic Enterprise Server(TM) 7.0 Platform for Scientific...

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Accelrys Releases the SciTegic Enterprise Server(TM) 7.0 Platform for Scientific Research Informatics

New Platform Enables Enterprise Collaboration and Advanced
Decision Making
SAN DIEGO--(Business Wire)--
Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL), the leading provider of scientific
business intelligence software and services, today announced the
release of SciTegic Enterprise Server(TM) 7.0, the premier platform
for the integration, analysis, and reporting of scientific data. This
new release enhances the enterprise scalability, security, and
deployment capabilities required by informatics professionals in the
pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemicals industries.

"The release of SciTegic Enterprise Server 7.0 represents a major
milestone for Accelrys and our customers. This release extends the
enterprise capabilities of our platform which will improve
productivity and help our customers make more informed, real time
decisions," said Mark J. Emkjer, president and chief executive officer
of Accelrys. "This is great news for our customers, including 19 of
the top 20 pharmaceutical companies who use our platform for their
scientific research informatics."

Key features of the new release, which is the next generation of
the highly successful Pipeline Pilot platform, include a service
oriented architecture environment, enterprise collaborative tools,
interactive application building, and workflow parallelization.

Accelrys will be demonstrating SciTegic Enterprise Server 7.0 at
the BioIT World Conference April 28-30, 2008 in Boston in Booth 201
and showing integration of the platform with technologies from
Agilent, HP, and Microsoft.

For more information about SciTegic Enterprise Server 7.0, please
visit here.

About Accelrys, Inc.

Accelrys develops and commercializes scientific business
intelligence software for the integration, mining, analysis, modeling
and simulation, management and interactive reporting of scientific
data. Our solutions are used by biologists, chemists, materials
scientists, and information technology professionals for product
design as well as drug discovery and development. Our technology and
services are designed to meet the needs of today's leading research
and development organizations including leading commercial, government
and academic organizations. Many of the largest pharmaceutical,
biotechnology, chemical, and petroleum companies worldwide use our
solutions. Accelrys is headquartered in San Diego, California. For
more information about Accelrys, visit its website at
accelrys.com/.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements. Such
statements, including statements relating to SciTegic Enterprise
Server, including features and potential demand therefore, are subject
to risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, the risks
that SciTegic Enterprise Server will not successfully include all
features described herein, or achieve market acceptance, demand
relating to SciTegic Enterprise Server, and other risks and
uncertainties described in documents Accelrys has filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent report
on Form 10-K and any subsequent interim filings. All forward-looking
statements in this document are qualified entirely by the cautionary
statements included in this document and such filings. These risks and
uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from
results expressed or implied by forward-looking statements contained
in this document. These forward-looking statements speak only as of
the date of this document. Accelrys disclaims any intent or obligation
to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements contained
herein to reflect any change in its expectations with regard thereto
or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such
statement is based.

Accelrys, Inc.
Zahra Ardehali
858-799-5440
zardehali@accelrys.com