Now that you’ve made the big decision and invested in a new or upgraded laboratory informatics system (whether it be LIMS, LES, CDS, or ELN), how do you ensure that your implementation will be a success? At CSols, ensuring implementation success is one of the things we specialize in, and we’ve acquired the expertise to… Read More

In this blog, Charlie examines the Computer System Assurance initiative from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) against the long-established CSV approach. For more blog information from Waters experts, click here: blog.waters.com. No more validation. CSV is a thing of the past. These are just some of the attention-grabbing headlines I’ve seen in various… Read More

You can’t escape the knowledge that the world is currently in the midst of a global pandemic of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2 strain of coronavirus.  Tracking and slowing the spread of disease have been on everyone’s mind for much of the year. We know that this will be difficult to do… Read More

I’m not going to sugarcoat this…LIMS implementations can suck at first. The vendors may not tell you that in their seamless demos or slick PowerPoint presentations, but business practices will change throughout the whole organization, some things may take longer than they did before, and almost everyone’s likely to hate the new system. These considerable… Read More

Opinions expressed by CSols Inc. contributors are their own. Over the past 20+ years, I have implemented numerous laboratory information management systems (LIMS) from multiple vendors, always as a customer. One of the earliest lessons I learned is that return on investment (ROI) is NOT a benefit of a LIMS. I start with this because… Read More