• The correlation of chemical and biological data, experimental and/or calculated, manual generated or selected by data mining approaches that allow the rational selection of compounds with desired properties.

• Something produced naturally or by human effort.
• Anything to which we can assign a price.
• Software or database that can be put on a tape and shipped to the customer.

• A MDL product providing tools for the biologist

• All applications that a biologists uses. MDL provides some, but, seldom all.
• Part of the Biologist’s desktop are:

• Assay Explorer
• Excel
• Word
• SAS
• …

• This is what is running on the Computer if a chemist sits in front of it, and it has to do with his work as chemist.

• A program designed for doing a specific task.
• An application is a product.
• An application is something the end-user can use to do things.
• Example:

• Lab Journal
• ISIS/Base
• ISIS/Draw

• An application that was sold several times.
• An application that consist of well defined modules, the basic framework is given, and the application can be adjusted to customer needs, by adding new modules.
• A consulting project that is generized so it can be shipped to several customers.

• A constituent part
• The smallest unit of classification in the Midwestern system for American archeology constituting a single complex of traits found in one site or level
• = Module
• A component provides a discrete service with a well defined interface, and operates independently and robustly.

• A unit of size used as a basis for standardizing the design and construction of a building
• module = component

• A box or chest to hold tools
• A software package containing "power functions" or "components" with which one can develop applications
• A software package containing different applications

• A scheme for which seems hope of success
• Turning products or components into solutions
• Building components
• A set of activities with a specific tangible delivery
• Sales campaign
• Finding agreement on a customer’s problem and working towards a solution

• An action or process of solving a problem
• A complete answer to a customer’s problem, regardless of what was asked for.
• The "right" thing does not have to be a solution.
• Something that is tightly related to a customer’s satisfaction.
• Something that helps me to get my job done.
• Examples:

• a good breakfast
• product
• application
• macro
• a beer

• Facilitator
• Examples:
  • AKos Consulting and Solutions GmbH
  • barmaid