Laboratory Informatics Blog

Typical resourcing questions that arise when an organization embarks on a LIMS project include “What skill sets, how many resources, and what time commitment will be needed to guarantee success for our LIMS project?”  First off, let me clearly state that there is no magic formula that will guarantee the success of your LIMS project. … Read More

  Dear Me, It has been a long road but the LIMS is finally up and running, validated, and the laboratory staff and management are actually using it.  In fact, the requests for improvements, new reports, and new capabilities are already starting to come in.  As I look back on this journey, I wish that… Read More

On just about every Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) or Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) implementation project we have assisted a customer with, this question arises. The answer is very telling as to how the entire implementation will play out. There have been numerous occasions where CSols was brought onto a project late in the game… Read More

Your organization has actively embraced laboratory informatics tools to help increase your lab’s efficiency and effectiveness, information availability across the enterprise, innovation and discovery, and collaboration amongst your scientists and partners.  While the laboratory informatics solutions you currently have implemented have enabled you to make great strides, in order to get to the next level,… Read More

Laboratory organizations are constantly under pressure to increase their efficiency and effectiveness.  This can generally be driven by shrinking budgets and the need to “do more with less”, weak pipelines and the need to facilitate innovation and discovery, or the changing paradigm of research wherein collaborating with partners has become the norm and the need… Read More