The challenges that pharmaceutical companies' face today is to enlarge their product pipelines in the face of increased global competition, a more demanding market place, and more stringent regulation. The ability to make better and faster research decisions is a key goal for all research organizations.

Thus, pharmaceutical companies are turning to new technologies such as data mining and insilico drug design to gain knowledge and insights from research data quickly and efficiently as well as to increase the likelihood of identifying targets or lead compounds. In this environment, cheminformatics and Computational chemistry has emerged as a crucial discipline that encompasses the design, creation, organization, storage, management, retrieval, analysis, dissemination, visualization, and use of chemical information.

Indian pharma companies and universities which are interested in entering in to this segment need effective software tools which can do the protein modeling, QSAR , Denovo drug design, analogs based drug design, Molecular modeling and simulation tools etc. Tata Elxsi's Systems Integration services offer solutions in this area, thus enabling better and faster research.