Laboratory Informatics Blog

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

Every time the subject of a customized LIMS or the customization of a LIMS comes up, the guardians and pundits of Industry Best Practices come out of the woodwork to chime in on the topic.  Heads are shaken and fingers are pointed.  Dark clouds start to gather overhead and horror stories are made ready.  The… Read More

Is your LIMS project truly a success even if it was on-time, within budget and met the requirements if no one ends up using it?  The answer is an emphatic NO!  If the laboratory personnel and managers have not adopted the new LIMS and are not fully utilizing it, then the project was actually a… Read More

So you have an ELN, a scientific productivity platform allowing configuration to meet the needs of an individual scientist, project, or group.  Some benefits your company may have realized are: Increased Productivity Improved Data Sharing and Collaboration Faster Knowledge Capture Reduced Experimental Cycle Times Faster and Improved Decision Making If these do not sound familiar,… Read More

You hear it all the time, “The LIMS implementation project was a success!  It was on-time, within budget, and met the requirements.”  However, when you go back to the lab a month or so later and check with the scientists, technicians, and managers you find out that no one is using the new LIMS.  They… Read More