IDBS
Software DevelopmentEngland, United Kingdom201-500 Employees
IDBS is a mid-sized software company based in Woking, England, that provides cloud-based software and services to the biopharma sector. Drawing on more than 35 years of scientific informatics experience, it helps organizations design and manage processes, contextualize data, and gain insights across the product lifecycle from R&D through manufacturing. Its flagship E-WorkBook software is complemented by Polar and PIMS cloud platforms, which operate in both GxP and non-GxP environments. The company notes it serves a large share of the global top BioPharma firms, including 80% of the top 20 by market cap. IDBS is part of Danaher, connecting to a broad ecosystem of life sciences capabilities and guided by the Danaher Business System. In June 2026, IDBS announced a partnership with Alchemi to connect AI agents to data within Polar across the drug development lifecycle.