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2012 ACIL P2P Meeting New Technologies Potential Barriers & Benefits - LIMS

Introduction

• a. History of Technology Developments
• b. Enterprise Software & LIMS
• c. Laboratory Automation and Informatics
• d. Cloud Computing

Key Developments

• Proprietary to open systems
• Web based user interface & tools
• pdf for reporting document & data files
• Paperless Operations
• Electronic Archives
• Customized Applications from Vendors

Enterprise Software

Enterprise Information System Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Production Management (LIMS) Financial & HR Management

Characteristics: Performance, Scalability, Robustness Own It, Outsource it, Rent It: Combination It’s a big company thing, ….or is it?

LIMS

Production Management Software Sample Tracking & results reporting QC: Data Evaluation & Review QA: Automate compliance tasks/activities Process automation Document Management Nexus to business applications

Costs

• Software & Hardware Procurement
• Systems integration
• Application development
• Maintenance, upgrades, & “tweeks”
• IT Team/Staffing
• User Training

Lab Automation

Multi-disciplinary strategy to develop, optimize and capitalize on available technologies to… Increase productivity Improve Data Quality Reduce cycle times

• Lab Robotics
• Rules Based Software, algorithms and and methodologies

to improve process efficiency and effectiveness

Lab Informatics: Optimizing Lab Operations ELN: Electronic Lab Notebook Sample Tracking & Workload Management Data Acquisition & Processing Reporting & Data Management

Cloud LIMS

• SaaS
• Reduces Costs
• Leverages Application Development
• One LIMS for many Labs
• Bandwidth is critical to “scalability”
• Hybrid Local Server-Cloud design

Game Changing Development