LIMS Key Benefits

LABVANTAGE provides a combination of rich functionality and simple user configurability, providing laboratories with a robust solution that will help them decrease costs, improve quality, productivity, and profit margins. In addition, our solution carries one of the lowest total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) in the industry: its zero-footprint architecture provides a powerful, low-cost, low-maintenance framework that fits today's competitive laboratory environment.

Secure Access LIMS

• Application and user-specific, role-based or departmental security schemes
• Compatibility with firewalls, VPN software, and security policies, whether your laboratory accesses information via the Web, VPN, or over a corporate network

Ubiquitous Global LIMS Deployment

• Multinationalization (M18N) compliance for data translation, time zones, regional settings, and date formatting
• Unicode support to enable seamless multi-site and multi-language deployment and collaboration
• Enterprise-wide access to your global employees, customers and partners
• Lower total cost of ownership with no plug-ins, downloads, or applets on the client
• Minimal basic deployment effort and need for client-level validation
• Robust configuration options with over 600 pre-configured user web pages that may be further modified or deployed as-is

Workflow Automation

• Automate business and decision processes to reduce costs and streamline operations
• Mirror any customer needs or decision processes
• Configure work processes based upon user security permissions within the customer's organization
• Out of the box pre-configured work processes that streamline the process of configuring a solution
• Leverage and integrate external data sources to help "direct" tasks, for further streamlining of automation

Out-Of-Box LIMS Solution

• Process high volumes of samples through thin-client, scalable architecture
• Acquire, integrate, and manage multiple sources of dynamic data across the enterprise
• Manage samples with complete traceability, from discovery through production... using a single repository for data collection and orchestration
• Integrate with 3rd-party applications and instruments
• Easily configurable by users
• 21 CFR Part 11 compliance
• Manage stability and shelf-life studies
• Test product batches

Robust LIMS Configurability

• Easy to configure using the built-in LABVANTAGE Designer
• Reduce implementation time and expense, as well as ongoing maintenance costs by providing property-driven, inheritance-based, configurable web pages
• Quickly change system architecture, database configuration, user administration, business process automation and end-user interface configurations
• Extensive library of page types to jump-start configuration and system enhancements
• Rich user interface types, including wizards and forms, which can be used to improve efficiency and curtail the learning curve

Comprehensive Reporting and Analytics-Driven Decision Support

• Web Based Dashboards - powerful business management tool provides "at a glance" views of definable key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Ad-hoc Query Tool - real-time "in-application" data mining and analysis without the need for SQL programming. Enables the end user to query the database in a way that is meaningful to them without enlisting the help of the IT group or requiring intimate knowledge of the structure of the database
• Direct support for OOB Reporting tools - seamlessly embedded, on-demand reporting and data visualization tools
• Advanced Reporting - robust information and performance management tools powered by Business Objects™
• Trending and Analytics - built-in visual charting for control charts and trend charts
• LABVANTAGE Advanced Analytics - full-featured SPC charting and statistics powered by Northwest Analytical®
• Operational Intelligence - real-time, workflow-driven, multi-source data integration, visualization, and analytics

Multiple Application Server Options

Expansive support for industry-leading application servers including:

• IBM WebSphere®
• BEA WebLogic®
• Sybase® EA Server
• JBoss™ Application Server

Support for Database platforms including:

• Oracle®
• Microsoft SQLServer®

System Integration

Leveraging Internet technologies such as Java, HTML, XML, Web Services, Hibernate, AJAX, Google Web Toolkit, HTTP and JavaScript, LABVANTAGE provides the technology and power to integrate with existing customer-specific internal or external systems such as:

• SAP and other ERP/MRP Systems
• Analytical Devices
• Instruments
• Robotic Systems