About Us
Focus
IMS helps to drive the success of Global 2000 CPG, Personal Care, Cosmetic and Pharmaceutical companies around the world by empowering their product development organizations to produce superior formulations, more rapidly and at lower cost. Our flagship product, Formulation WorkStation 7i is a robust Product Lifecycle Management solution, taking formulations from the idea stage -- to the hand-off of final approved formulations to manufacturing. Developed under GMP specifically for these regulated industries, it is currently in use in fully validated environments on six continents.
The IMS Product Philosophy
We recognize that development of breakthrough Consumer, Cosmetic, OTC drug, and Pharmaceutical formulations involves a series of intricate, highly-complex tasks. While other companies define themselves by the type of tool they develop (software, hardware, measurement) and have little detailed knowledge of your business and needs, we at IMS take a very different approach: (1) we leverage our extensive industry domain knowledge and our detailed understanding of the product development process, to design breakthrough software and tools that address the fundamental needs of global product development organizations; (2) we implement this breakthrough thinking via a highly intelligent, configurable design built on the most robust, scalable technology architecture available. Our main business is enterprise software. We believe that exceptional software represents exceptional thinking that has been crystallized into code. If a company’s software developers don’t really understand your business, your needs and your issues how can they possibly create software that will empower your organization? The blunt answer is that they can’t.
IMS Culture
IMS recruits only the best and brightest -- and our employees are constantly growing and developing. Over the last ten years, our teams have created exceptional breakthroughs by focusing their technology skills and innovative energies on solving the fundamental problems faced by our global customers. Everyone has a voice at IMS, and the company’s success has been the direct result of the vision, intelligence, passion and commitment of the IMS team members. One other point, we understand how busy you are, and thus we have designed our systems so that in the vast majority of cases when you call IMS during business hours, instead of getting voicemail, you get to speak to a friendly, intelligent person who genuinely wants to assist you with your needs.
Customer Funded
In contrast to many technology companies that are struggling in today’s environment, IMS is 100% customer financed. Our proven products provide excellent value to our customers -- and for the last ten years we have reinvested our profits from selling products and services to further grow our business. Our customer base includes leading global CPG, Personal Care, Cosmetic and Pharmaceutical companies.
History
Frustrated by years of working with technology vendors that had "no idea" concerning the fundamental needs of global product development organizations, Dr. John P. Sottery left Procter & Gamble in September 1992 to found IMS Inc. He had a vision for a company that would focus on creating new technology specifically designed to empower global product development organizations. Headquartered in Portland, Maine, the company is privately held.
