EM P OW E R 3 SO F T WA R E: B EN E F I T S FO R S YS T EM A DM INIS T R AT O R S

Faster implementation, lower cost, and less risk with a CDS designed for the enterprise

Waters® Empower™ 3 Software is the only chromatography data

system (CDS) truly designed for the science-driven enterprise.

Whether you are challenged with globalization or consolidation, our

market leading CDS allows organizations to deploy in a reliable,

recoverable WAN environment that provides continuous service,

maximizes capital investments, and minimizes administrative costs.

n Advanced Verification Technology™ Service

n Significantly reduce validation test development and execution effort.

n Verify the operation of your Empower 3 Software installation within your own environment in a fraction of the time.

n Keep your CDS software current and take advantage of new capabilities more easily.

n More expertise

n The unparalleled product knowledge of Waters’ Enterprise Software Solutions (ESS) team ensures faster implementations, regardless of your corporate network infrastructure – allowing your staff to focus on more value added projects.

n Supports high performance operating systems

n In addition to Windows, Empower 3 supports selected UNIX environments.

Lower total cost of ownershipn Empower 3 Software’s embedded technologies significantly

lower costs compared to other database driven CDS solutions.

n Embedded licenses provided with Empower Software eliminate the need for users to purchase costly external licenses.

Rapid deploymentn Lower costs and less downtime

n Optimized deployment reduces the time and cost for computing, administration, and validation.

n Remote push installation

n Install software silently on all nodes around the world from a central location.

n For new installations, feature releases, service packs, and instrument drivers.

n Virtualization

n Consolidate multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine.

n Virtual images allow for rapid deployment and less validation.

n Server deployment provides high availability, data redundancy, and load balancing.

n Citrix®

n Faster and simpler software deployment.

n Fewer nodes to validate.

n Use older computer hardware, or hardware and operating systems not supported by Empower.

n Simpler administration.

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Disaster recoveryn Site mirroring

n Disaster recovery and performance at a reduced cost.

n Mirrored environments guard against hardware failure and eliminate idle redundancy.

n A remote, synchronized standby database is ready to take over processing activities if the primary site fails.

n Provides disaster protection against planned or unplanned outages.

n Standby database does not have to remain idle because it can be used to perform planned software upgrades in a rolling fashion.

n Standby database can offload the overhead of backups, archives, and other administrative tasks from the primary database.

n Can be used as a test database.

Interoperability with external software in a WAN environmentn Better performance and usability

n Improve interoperability between Empower 3, Waters NuGenesis® SDMS Information Platform, or LIMS through an application programming interface (API).

n Create web-based applications that interoperate with Empower 3.

n Support for multiple logons.

n Less version maintenance and syncing.

n Multi-threading allows for faster processing capability.

High availabilityn Redundancy

n Multiple servers in a cluster environment serve the same database, and provide a high level of redundancy and fault tolerance in case of server failure.

n Load balancing for performance

n Workload is distributed among nodes for optimal performance.

n Flexibility

n Automatically adjust capacity based on business/laboratory requirements.

n Run multiple databases in one cluster with the ability to share the infrastructure between the different databases.

n Protection from storage or site failure

n Empower 3 is supported with redundant databases to allow for storage or site failure.

Non-disruptive scalability n Adaptability

n Easily grow from a single workstation to a small workgroup, or a large enterprise environment.

n Citrix server farms, server clustering, and virtual server clusters help to insulate your business from system failures and system maintenance.

n Dynamically add more servers as your laboratory workload grows.

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