Commmon Causes of LIMS Implementation Failures
A LIMS Implementation Failure can side track your R&D Efforts Due to the complex processes and technologies utilized in labs, and the many different aspects of the enterprise that laboratory systems touch, success in laboratory information management system (LIMS) projects can be difficult to achieve. A Successful LIMS Implementation project, in this case, is defined […]
Moving Your LIMS to the Cloud: What You Need to Know
Modern laboratories in all industries are under intense pressure to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency, while at the same time enhancing quality and maintaining regulatory compliance. Additionally, the rise of R&D externalization strategies and contract research organizations (CROs) in the pharmaceutical industry has resulted in labs collecting large amounts of data from multiple partners, […]
Outsourcing your Next Laboratory Informatics Project
As the complexity of the global R&D environment has grown over the last several decades, biopharma companies have found it increasingly difficult to accomplish scalable growth with their in-house team alone. This has led to the practice of outsourcing of laboratory informatics projects to become more commonplace as a way to reduce costs and gain […]
SampleManager LIMS Matrix Components
Thermo Fisher Scientific’s SampleManager LIMS™ offers an extensive array of features and capabilities that can benefit your organization. SampleManager’s open architecture provides the tools necessary to transform isolated laboratory data siloes into a connected, global knowledge base that can be viewed and shared across the wider organization, from R&D to manufacturing. SampleManager LIMS provides instrument […]
Tips for Using Biovia Pipeline Pilot as an Integration Platform
One of the most common integration platforms used in laboratory informatics is Pipeline Pilot from BIOVIA. Whether part of a large enterprise software implementation or a project to pass data between two applications, integration projects always present challenges. In the laboratory environment, achieving integration goes beyond merely exchanging data between applications. Laboratory equipment/automation, specialized data […]
Tips for Upgrading Your Waters Empower System
Waters Empower 3 is a chromatography data system (CDS) that links to chromatographic instruments to help facilitate management of chromatography test results through data acquisition, processing, reporting and distribution. Empower 3 generates lots of data with complex calculations and detailed reports and has several tools that address compliance and data integrity concerns such as electronic […]
5 Key Benefits of a Unified LIS for All Medical Lab Disciplines
Outstanding healthcare begins with effective management of patient data from multiple sources across a network of medical care providers and organizations. Enabling health care providers to enter and access patient information via a unified, secure database provides a holistic view to better inform medical decisions and the quality of care. In the current climate of […]
Solving the Unsolvable: Enabling the Fully Connected Digital Lab
The digital lab concept has been around for decades, with nearly every science-based organization seeking ways to achieve complete digitalization and automation throughout their operations. Progress has been made in many areas, however, the full power and benefits have yet to be realized as there is no single platform that can link all the disparate […]
Case Study: SAP Augmentation via LabWare Integration
Overview Astrix LabWare Integration enabled a global company with operations across 54 countries to streamline their process for entering, documenting, and reporting their compliance with environmental regulations associated with water quality, including ISO/IEC 17025. In under six months, the client enjoyed measurably faster sample lifecycle with dramatically larger volume of samples analyzed. The company’s primary […]
Tips for Implementing or Upgrading Core LIMS
Core Informatics provides a state of the art laboratory information management system (LIMS) built on the Platform for Science (PFS) – a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that enables web-based informatics in the cloud. The web-based nature of Core LIMS allows for scalability, support for multiple sites, and 24-hour remote access without the need for any client-side […]
Case Study: LabWare Centralized Data Review for a Global Biopharmaceutical Company
Overview A global biopharmaceutical company specializing in discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative medicines was using a manual process for the oversight of commercial release lots. The company manufactures approximately 3-4 thousand commercial lots each year, many with the help of contract manufacturing organizations. The quality data for these lots was entered into LabWare LIMS […]
Case Study: LabWare LIMS Implementation for a Global CRO
Overview A global contract research organization (CRO) specializing in clinical research was faced with a 25-year-old laboratory informatics system (LIMS) that was central to running their core business. This legacy system had been designed in-house, primarily by the business user community, in an ad hoc manner. The system processed around 10,000 samples per day, serving […]