One of the biggest drivers for the implementation and utilization of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) in a lab is to increase productivity and effectiveness. While increasing productivity and effectiveness can be addressed in a number of ways within a LIMS, the ability of the LIMS to automate manual processes, procedures, and tasks is… Read More
Laboratory Informatics Blog
Welcome to the CSols blog, written in-house by experts who know your systems and technologies (or by the occasional guest industry expert). No writers-for-hire or AI-generated content anywhere in sight. We write our blogs to share real-world experiences that help laboratory professionals, not for SEO.
Stop by often to learn what CSols experts — the industry’s most trusted advisors — have to say about current laboratory informatics topics. We post approximately twice a month on subjects ranging from high-level overviews to detailed, technical explanations.
Clearing the Water: Win Over Users with LabWare Visual Workflows
If you work in a laboratory setting, likely at some point you have experienced laboratory users who profess to “hate” their LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System). If you take the time to listen, they often have good reasons. Usually, those reasons include one of the following: Unfortunately, these are very valid issues for many organizations’… Read More
Reducing the Unknowns: Lab Informatics Project Managers’ Value
On every project there are things that we know and things that we don’t know. It is the project manager’s responsibility to plan for and manage both the knowns and the unknowns in order to deliver the project on-time, within budget, and meeting specifications. But there is another unknown out there that must also be… Read More
Onshore vs Offshore Informatics Consulting
Successfully selecting, implementing, enhancing, and integrating laboratory informatics systems such as LIMS, ELN, SDMS, CDS, etc. requires specialty knowledge, skill sets, and hands-on experience. With these requirements, it is not unusual that a laboratory organization will not have enough appropriate internal resources to staff laboratory informatics projects. Additionally, hiring permanent personnel for lab informatics projects… Read More
Making LIMS RFPs Effective
Selecting the right Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for your current and future needs is a nontrivial endeavor. Learning about LIMS and what particular LIMS solutions provide and support, as well as the capabilities and culture of the prospective LIMS supplier can be done in a myriad of ways. Personal experience, internet research, advice from… Read More