Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Symyx) is a scientific research and development (R&D) integration partner to companies in the life sciences, chemical, energy, consumer products and electronics industries. The Company works with its customers through the Symyx Software, Symyx Tools and Symyx Research offerings. During the year ended December 31, 2008, Symyx Tools and Symyx Research are combined into a single unit, Symyx High Productivity Research ( Symyx HRP). Symyx Software help address customer needs for greater data access and integration across the enterprise, improving their ability to search, manage, manipulate and store internal and external research data, as well as to manage their intellectual property. Symyx Tools enables customers to bring some of the capabilities of the laboratories into their own organizations by purchasing instruments to integrate and automate laboratory experimentation.