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State Tech Organizations in Strategic Alliance
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Business New Haven
2/7/2000
By: BNH
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EAST HARTFORD - The Connecticut Technology Council (CTC) and Connecticut Technology Associates (CTA) have announced a strategic alliance to better serve members of both groups. The memorandum of understanding between the organizations covers marketing, programs, public policy, special projects and workforce development. Bernie Selig, senior associate at CTA, and Ron Cerny, CTC board member and president of the J.M. Ney Co., will oversee the relationship between the organizations.
“The strategic alliance will coordinate the complementary activities of Connecticut's premiere technology organizations, providing each membership access to a host of technical and strategic benefits and thereby clarifying the playing field in the state,” says CTC President Laura Kent. “The excellent synergy between the Tech Council and CTA will serve to improve the business climate for manufacturing element of the state economy,” adds Cerny.
IMA Partners With ALCATEL
SHELTON - IMA, a Shelton-based provider of synchronized, multi-channel e-business solutions, has announced a joint business-development initiative with ALCATEL, provider of network, voice and data communications solutions. As part of the deal, IMA has interfaced its EDGE customer interaction software product to the ALCATEL Omni4400 platform. This creates an integrated solution allowing enterprises to significantly improve customer service and call-center operations, increase sales force effectiveness and better leverage marketing knowledge throughout the organization.
“Users will enjoy the benefits of an integrated IMA and ALCATEL CTI solution that can help increase the quality and performance of their telemarketing and customer service operation,” says Jim Anderson, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing for IMA. “This is another example of IMA's commitment to partner with leading hardware and software vendors in order to provide EDGE users with robust and open links to key technologies.”
Technology Rules
WETHERSFIELD - A recent survey of 800 companies across the state will allow the Connecticut Employment & Training Commission to better assess employer-based job training issues. One of the most significant findings of the survey was the huge demand for workers with high-tech skills.
“With the state's low unemployment rate, growth in high-technology industries, and continued changes in a global marketplace, the demand for skilled, trained workers in Connecticut has never been higher,” says Peter M. Gioia, CBIA economist and director of research.
Among the findings: 95 percent of large companies responding to the survey identified computer training as very to extremely important as a future training need; also, 79 percent of mid-sized companies identified technical training as very to extremely important.
“The labor market is increasingly dominated by technology, requiring employees to have a wider range of skills than ever before, based on mastery of science, mathematics and communications,” notes Wallace Barnes, chairman of the Connecticut Employment & Training Commission.
Neurogen Purchases New AIDD Lab Space
BRANFORD - Neurogen Corp. (NASDAQ: NRGN) has announced the purchase of a 54,000-square-foot manufacturing facility for conversion to additional laboratory space for Neurogen's industry-leading drug discovery engine, AIDD (Accelerated Intelligent Drug Discovery). The new site is directly adjacent to the company's existing facilities in Branford. The Connecticut BioScience Facilities Fund, established in 1998 to foster the development to laboratory space in the state and administered by Connecticut Innovations Inc., has made a $5 million loan which serves as the financial catalyst to launch this project.
Neurogen will immediately begin to convert as much as one-third of the building into new laboratory space to house an additional AIDD system and to support the company's new business operations involved in the development of AIDD systems for use by pharmaceutical companies. Last June, Neurogen announced a deal worth $27 million to install AIDD technology at Pfizer Inc. and to train Pfizer scientists to use AIDD in their own drug-discovery programs.
“Laboratory space in Connecticut is extremely tight, and we are thrilled to be able to access CII's BioScience Facilities Fund to create space for new labs next door to our current facility,” says Harry H. Penner Jr., Neurogen's president and CEO. “Conversion of the remainder of the warehouse space in our new facility will ultimately enable us to expand our Branford research-and-development operations to greater than 300 scientists. We have a strong commitment to Connecticut, and we appreciate the strides that the state is making toward addressing the specific hurdles growing bioscience companies face.”
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