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| LabVantage in the News 2002 |
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| Laboratory Services, a Division of the University of Guelph, Selects LabVantage Sapphire™ |
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Bridgewater, NJ April 11, 2001. Software Solution Helps Exceed Growing Customer Service Needs and Reduce Operational Costs
Laboratory Services, a division of the University of Guelph, one of Canada's largest providers of analytical services, research, regulatory testing, consultative services and comprehensive laboratory diagnostic services in support of agriculture and food excellence, has selected LabVantage Sapphire™ for its laboratory management automation needs.
Sapphire™'s n-tier architecture fully leverages browser/server technologies. This is vital for laboratories requiring a level of infrastructure that can potentially serve thousands of customer requests daily with reduced operating costs.
Sapphire™'s graphical Workflow Designer will allow the University of Guelph to automate an extensive number of decisions in their various laboratory operating areas based on specific customer requirements. This will allow Laboratory Services to efficiently respond to client inquiries, address internal workload pressures and significantly reduce the amount of manual manipulation. The solution's ability to streamline manual processes and electronic report generation is essential to reduce Guelph's operating costs, while they expand the number of customers to whom they provide services. The Sapphire™ solution will also provide seamless interfaces to the existing quotation and billing systems.
"We chose Lab Vantage Sapphire™ because of its flexibility to meet the diverse needs of our organization," said Pat Collins, general manager, Laboratory Services, a division of the University of Guelph. "We have confidence that the Lab Vantage team will deliver the goods."
"Laboratory Services is looking for a solution that can address its functional requirements with a robust architectural infrastructure that is able to scale to meet the company's growing needs," said Scott Deutsch, vice president, Global Marketing. "Sapphire™ is the leading technology solution for building world-class virtual laboratories, to share information beyond the four walls."
About Laboratory Services, a Division of the University of Guelph. Today's consumer expects the highest standards of food quality and safety. To meet such demands, Ontario food producers, processors and regulators rely on a variety of sophisticated methods to ensure the integrity of food products and resources. The Laboratory Services Division of the University of Guelph provides high value analytical and diagnostic services to clients in the agriculture, food and veterinary sector. It provides laboratory solutions for food producers and processors. It supports the animal disease surveillance program and the food safety regulatory programs of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. It supports research at the University of Guelph with sophisticated analysis. The Laboratory Services Division has over thirty specialized laboratories that offer a wide range of testing services including, veterinary diagnostics, food chemistry, food microbiology, milk composition, microscopy, analysis of chemical contaminants, soil analysis and pest diagnostics. The testing services are backed by strong scientific consulting and quality programs. With a quality system that is registered to the ISO 9002 standard, Laboratory Services is also accredited by such organizations as the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians and the Standards Council of Canada.
About LabVantage Solutions. LabVantage Solutions, a Chatterjee Group company, is helping to build the virtual laboratory. LabVantage helps customers move beyond the traditional four walls of the laboratory with solutions that enable information sharing via intranets and extranets. LabVantage has a complete suite of software for high throughput screening, genomics, proteomics and LIMS. LabVantage offers ASP Services and provides industry-specific global solutions for companies in select markets including pharmaceutical research and development, pharmaceutical contract research, food and beverage, oil and gas, process chemicals, water industries and environmental laboratories. The company also offers services that ensure customer success such as industry and technology consulting, implementation services, application training and extensive customer support services. LabVantage has provided laboratory information solutions to nearly 1,000 companies since 1981.
Certain statements contained in this release may be forward looking statements and are thus prospective. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from future results expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. |
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