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Syngenta & Benchling: Driving faster seed and agricultural development at a global scale

技术

基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 云计算
平台即服务 (PaaS) - 数据管理平台

适用行业

农业

适用功能

产品研发
质量保证

用例

协作机器人
预测性维护
供应链可见性(SCV)

服务

云规划/设计/实施服务
数据科学服务

挑战

Syngenta, a global leader in agricultural science and technology, faced several challenges. One of the main challenges was balancing customization and standardization. Syngenta wanted standardized data for cross-company analysis, but each department had its own preferences and needs for recording and recalling data. Another challenge was collaboration across the globe. Handoffs between different geographies, languages, time zones, and areas of expertise while using paper records led to bottlenecks. Lastly, managing many regulatory requirements was a challenge. Different countries maintain complex, shifting regulatory requirements around product safety that all need to be met.

关于客户

Syngenta is an innovation powerhouse in seeds and agricultural products, with teams in over 90 countries. Their R&D focuses on designing seeds with desirable genetics that require fewer inputs—land, water, pesticides, nutrients— while producing great outputs. Growers depend on Syngenta for hardier, higher quality crops as geographies of fungal and bacterial diseases shift, climates fluctuate to more extremes, and the demand to feed the global population grows. Syngenta has maintained its position as a global leader in agricultural science and technology, particularly in seeds and crop protection products, by cultivating innovation. One of the strengths that drives this culture of innovation is diversity throughout the company. Syngenta benefits from a diversity of roles, from regulators to molecular scientists, as well as a diversity of geographies, leading to differing climates, conditions, tool availability, and cultural norms. Another key aspect to Syngenta’s success is scale. Researchers are able to test hundreds of thousands of products at a time, share with labs, greenhouses, and regulatory agencies in many countries, and create a stock that can be distributed globally.

解决方案

Syngenta invested in Benchling to capture the strength of all the different people working together to bring new seeds to fruition while also enabling different roles at Syngenta to collaborate more cohesively–both internally and with regulatory agencies around the world. Benchling offers a lot of flexibility to suit individual working preferences and surface role-relevant information. Teams can take advantage of Benchling’s codeless configuration to easily model their specific workflows. Such customization allows different users to interact with Benchling intuitively and efficiently, while tracking information seamlessly through the entire lifecycle of a product. Furthermore, sharing information in real-time makes it easier to run activities concurrently in different locations. A research team in Beijing can use results from an experiment conducted the day before in North Carolina, and share next steps with field teams in Idaho and Argentina to run parallel experiments on the ground. Benchling’s Validated Cloud provides a solution with the rigor and security necessary for recording requisite data and demonstrating continued efficacy and safety in Syngenta’s products.

运营影响

Benchling enables Syngenta to communicate and collaborate both with internal teams and external regulatory bodies more clearly and quickly, greatly accelerating the pace of their science.
Benchling offers a lot of flexibility to suit individual working preferences and surface role-relevant information.
Sharing information in real-time makes it easier to run activities concurrently in different locations.

数量效益

48% improvement in ease of finding legacy data or protocols
72% improvement in ease of sharing data across global teams
79% of users agreed that Benchling has helped improve the quality of data capture