SCRIP-SAFEŽ Security Products, Inc. Joins CENSA in the Development of Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems

--CENSA developing Next Generation Digital Archiving and Recordkeeping Systems--

--SCRIP-SAFEŽ Inc. PatentPad™offers secure alternative to using cumbersome bound lab notebooks--

Medford, MA July 27, 1998--Rich Lysakowski, Ph.D., Executive Director of CENSA (the Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Association), Medford, MA announced, today, that SCRIP-SAFEŽ Security Products, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio has joined CENSA as a leading Supplier Member.

CENSA, an international scientific, software, and high-technology trade association, is comprised of the world's largest research and development organizations in the life sciences, chemical sciences, consumer products, healthcare, high technology, and related industries. Market development programs operating under CENSA are developing the next generation of scientific automation systems--Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems.

SCRIP-SAFEŽ Security Products, Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio is a major production and printing company that manufactures and markets state-of-the-art security paper to more than 1200 corporations, colleges, and universities worldwide. SCRIP-SAFEŽ PatentPad™ --an alternative to researchers' tedious, daily chore of manually entering data into a bound research book--is a contemporaneous information recording system that permits research data to be collected, entered in a computer, and then printed directly onto secured sheets of paper that are uniquely identifiable.

Deemed critical by world scientists, and seen as digital replacements to today's ubiquitous but obsolete paper notebooks-collaborative electronic notebook systems facilitate research among the world's scientists; speed the capture, use, transfer, and archiving of critical and proprietary research data and records; and accelerate laboratory and R&D projects. These benefits are critical to scientists and corporations involved in biology, chemistry, materials, or high-tech R & D. The results apply anywhere large amounts of data must be captured as records and protected for long periods of time.

According to Joseph E. Orndorff, President and Chief Executive Officer of SCRIP-SAFEŽ Security Products, Inc., "We joined CENSA because we provide an integral step that allows corporations to move ahead immediately with their plans to implement features of electronic notebook systems. Scrip safeŽ provides an information documentation and verification system that allows CENSA members to initiate components of the electronic notebook as they become available."

According to Rich Lysakowski, "Companies join CENSA to gain major productivity benefits in research and development. CENSA Supplier Members' products will enable scientists to focus on their primary missions and goals; increase productivity by eliminating countless hours of recordkeeping tasks; and give them tools to collaborate and manage data and knowledge far better than now. This leads to operational excellence, faster time-to-market for their products, and ultimately will improve the bottom-line."

Supplier Members gain many benefits including priority access to our corporate end users and their automation system development projects; receiving system and component specifications and other knowledge deliverables; sponsoring specifications for adoption; receiving and responding to CENSA RFPs; and participating in the certification and Quality Branding Program.

According to Joseph E. Orndorff, "Benefits to SCRIP-SAFEŽ include working with an organization that is focused on preparing the way for a prudent and practical implementation of electronic notebook and recordkeeping systems. Working alongside prospective end users, and enabling them to recognize the value of staged implementation, will improve our visibility and demonstrate the value of the SCRIP-SAFEŽ PatentPad™system as an effective and trustworthy intermediate step."

"In addition," he said, "because corporations like to see quick results, long-term and complex projects are sometimes difficult to sell to a cost-conscious management. During the road building process, obstacles such as rivers and deep valleys are encountered and require bridges. SCRIP-SAFEŽ provides an immediate bridge that permits utilization of electronic notebook components as they are completed."

CENSA is contracting with software and hardware vendors to construct applications and tools for mission-critical R&D team computing systems with complete collaborative electronic laboratory notebooks. Later this year and continuing into 2000, CENSA will be releasing to its Supplier Members a series of Requests For Proposals (RFPs) and detailed functional specifications for electronic notebook systems, application integration frameworks and tools, and specialized components and systems for scientific and engineering applications.

These RFPs and specifications focus on the needs of automation managers, regulatory affairs, R&D managers, scientists, patent attorneys, records managers, and quality assurance managers, who will benefit greatly from the development of electronic recordkeeping and integrated systems for intelligent project data handling, collaboration, and knowledge management.

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For more information contact: Dr. Rich Lysakowski, Chief Science and Technology Officer and Advisor, The Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems Association, 19 Bowen Avenue, Suite 100, Medford, MA 02155 USA, Tel: (781) 395-3004, E-mail: