TechValidate Research on Elsevier Reaxys

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise pharmaceuticals company is based on an August 2021 survey of Elsevier Reaxys customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Elsevier Reaxys:

• The challenges their organization faced prior to using Reaxys:
  • Finding the most relevant preparation procedure for a given compound
  • Finding the detailed commercial suppliers information for a substance
    “when ever I found a reaction condition for a key step, the reported yields or condition does not work many times even molecules are same.”

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Elsevier Reaxys that the surveyed company uses:

• Uses Reaxys daily.
• The most valuable aspects/features of Reaxys that help them to find relevant information quickly:
  • Inbuilt Chemdraw
• The kind of searches they usually conduct with Reaxys:
  • Structure based searches for reactions

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Elsevier Reaxys:

• Reaxys increased the productivity of their research work by 30-50%.
• Rates their satisfaction with the following Reaxys capabilities:
  • Ease of use: very satisfied
  • Relevance of search results: satisfied
  • Ability to refine results: satisfied
  • Ability to export results: very satisfied
  • Outperformance of other other solutions: not satisfied

Introduction

This case study of GVK BIOSCIENCES PRIVATE LIMITED is based on a June 2021 survey of Elsevier Reaxys customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Elsevier Reaxys:

• Is aware of the new Patent content expansion in Reaxys.

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Elsevier Reaxys that the surveyed company uses:

• Uses Reaxys daily.
• The following aspects/features in Reaxys helped them to find the relevant information quickly:
  • Synthetic Planner Function
• Agrees that the Reaxys Patent content expansion in their research work is important.

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Elsevier Reaxys:

• Agrees that Reaxys has been helpful at improving efficiency and effectiveness at work.
• Reaxys increased the productivity of their research work by more than 50%.