Case Study: Allergan overcomes multivariate drug-discovery analytics challenges with TIBCO Software’s Spotfire Analytics

TIBCO Spotfire Analytics Enables Allergan Scientists to Overcome the Multivariate Data Analytics Challenges of Drug Discovery

Allergan, a global specialty pharmaceutical company, faced a major analytics challenge in drug discovery: researchers needed to relate chemical structure to hundreds of assay outcomes across more than one million rows (56 GB) of highly multivariate data. Traditional tools like Excel couldn’t provide interactive, repeatable structural‑activity‑relationship (SAR) analyses or support fast “experiment–observe–analyze–improve” cycles, risking missed insights and slower compound selection.

Allergan’s Research Informatics Group deployed TIBCO Spotfire with a SARVision integration and a custom scaffold panel to create a standardized, visual analytics workflow that pulls and filters diverse experiment data into programmatic cross tables and on‑demand summaries. The solution delivered fast, repeatable multivariate analysis and intuitive SAR exploration, accelerating hypothesis iterations, improving compound prioritization, and driving broad user adoption through regular training and shared analysis files.

Allergan

Robert Cain

Principal Scientist