They offer software for tasks including analytical data handling and knowledge management; in addition, molecular property modelling and property-based design are relevant areas of expertise in ACD Labs.

The company is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with direct sales offices in the UK, Germany, France, China, and India.

The intention was to monetize the experience of an international team of scientists specializing in quantitative structure-property relationships, such as NMR spectra and various physico-chemical properties, such as pKa, logP, logD, boiling point, vapor pressure.

But by 1997 the scope expanded to also include chromatography, processing of optical and mass spectra and databasing.

The merger marked a shift from "shrink-wrap software" oriented on individual research specialists toward integrating ACD products into an infrastructure of a client company.