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| About LabVantage |
| Your Strategic Solutions Provider For LIMS |
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As background, LabVantage was created from the merger of three companies in the laboratory software marketplace. The first of these companies, Laboratory Microsystems, was formed in 1981, and the rest joined in 1997. With these acquisitions, the company took the name LabVantage Solutions, Inc. With broad market knowledge and a diverse product base, the company focused on providing a software solution that would be state-of-the-art and provide graphical workflow and comprehensive information management capabilities.
Accordingly, in the spring of 1999, LabVantage introduced version 1.0 of Sapphire. Initially released as a thick-client application, Sapphire evolved to become a true thin-client Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) in 2001. As a thin-client solution, Sapphire offered organizations lower total cost of ownership and secure, enterprise-wide access to their laboratory information.
In the same year, LabVantage launched an initiative to address the challenging needs of the life sciences industry.In response to market demand, LabVantage introduced advanced functionality that specifically addressed the life sciences R&D market. More than just new functionality, this initiative included the creation of a dedicated team of development, professional services, and sales professionals with life sciences domain expertise.
With the introduction of our Evergreen Studio Webpage Designer in Sapphire v3.2, LabVantage converted Sapphire from a customizable product to a configurable one. Evergreen enables organizations to leverage their Sapphire investment as their needs change, eliminate the reliance on high cost programming resources, and reduce validation cost and effort through a property-driven configuration tool.
In 2004, LabVantage released Sapphire R4, which included more powerful functionality with additional enterprise-wide capability that not only catered to individual laboratories, but to an organization's entire enterprise – from research to development to formulation to quality management. The following year, LabVantage released Sapphire R4.4, with even more configuration and architectural enhancements and further expanded Sapphire's multinationalization capabilities.
With these new releases, LabVantage also added new functionality to Sapphire with end-user driven and IT driven modules, such as our Stability Module for stability testing and shelf-life analysis, our Advanced Storage and Logistics Module for tracking the inventory of samples, reagents, and other items in the laboratory, our BioBanking Module for complete biorespository management, and our Clustering Module for additional performance, scalability, and reliability.
In 2007, LabVantage introduced the Ad-Hoc Query Module and Sapphire Enterprise Connector Module Powered by SAP Netweaver. With these modules, LabVantage further strenghtened Sapphire's reporting capability as a true enterprise-wide solution, which seamlessly integrates with enteroprise systems such as mySAP ERP system.
Today, LabVantage redefines the "S" in LIMS with the Sapphire Suite - a zero-footprint and configurable-off-the shelf Laboratory Information Management Suite. Sapphire takes enterprises beyond the world of traditional LIMS by consolidating additional functionality typically found in multiple laboratory systems into one product platform across the global enterprise. We believe Sapphire is the best combination of functionality, flexibility, & technology in one solution.
LabVantage set a strategic vision for Sapphire as a solution that addresses an organization's information technology needs for a single, thin-client application that adequately meets its business requirements for enterprise laboratory information management. We have and will continue to execute on that vision. |
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