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| Food Safety Net Services, Ltd. Selects LabVantageT for Next Generation Enterprise Quality Management LIMS |
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Bridgewater, NJ November 18, 2002. LabVantage Sapphire™ Selected by Food Safety Net Services, Ltd. to support expanding Internet initiatives to improve customer service for commercial food testing laboratories.
LabVantage Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of Life Sciences LIMS and Enterprise LIMS solutions, announced today that Food Safety Net Services, Ltd. has signed a software and services agreement for LabVantage Sapphire™ for their San Antonio and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas facilities. Food Safety Net Services provides "one-stop shopping" for integrated services and industry expertise that focuses on improving the effectiveness of food safety and quality programs. Food Safety Net Services will be using Sapphire™ to improve the management of scientific data and will streamline the documentation process in Food Safety Net Services' ISO/A2LA accredited laboratories, which is critical to the A2LA accreditation. The systems will also allow Food Safety Net Services to gain process efficiencies through automation, and to provide clients with access to testing information via secure Internet browser connections and Sapphire™ "virtual user" licenses.
Food Safety Net Services has distinguished itself with its vision of food safety from "farm to fork" by combining microbiological and chemical laboratory service with consulting and auditing services, educational and crisis management programs, and regulatory support. Their goal is to help clients build and implement the most effective food safety and quality programs possible.
Food Safety Net Services will implement LabVantage Sapphire™ using a centralized Microsoft SQL Server database, an application server for business rules automation, and Business Objects for reporting and ad hoc analysis. Food Safety Net Services' customers will be able to submit and review samples via a secure Internet browser connection. This approach provides a research environment that is flexible and easy-to-maintain, and is scalable to meet the changing needs of the organization as well as the needs of their client base.
"Food Safety Net Services continues to focus on being responsive to our customers by providing laboratory testing results quickly and accurately. Our competitive advantage is our ability to provide integrated programs for one-stop-shopping at cost-effective levels," said Food Safety Net Services President and Owner Gina Bellinger. Bellinger also stated, "LabVantage's ability to provide our organization with a solution that addresses our internal requirements, and allows us to offer our customers secure browser access made the selection process rather easy. As well, the scalable n-tier architecture of LabVantage Sapphire™ allows our company to accommodate the needs of a growing client base."
"LabVantage has clearly become the leading laboratory software solution provider for independent testing and analysis organizations because of our ability to offer a secure, browser-based solution that can scale and perform," said Vice President, Global Marketing for LabVantage Scott Deutsch. Deutsch continued, "Food Safety Net Services' selection of Sapphire™ is another instance of success with independent testing organizations. Other such organizations that use Sapphire™ include Staveley Services, University of Guelph and Intertek Testing Services."
LabVantage Sapphire™ - Rich Technology and Extensive Functionality Framework. LabVantage Sapphire™ is an enterprise solution that helps our customers to streamline, automate, and integrate business and work processes in both process and life sciences industries by enabling:
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Graphical workflow automation to map and automate routine work processes |
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Acquisition, integration and management of multiple sources of dynamic data across the enterprise |
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Complete traceability from Discovery forward |
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An intuitive user interface to facilitate information sharing across the enterprise |
Food Safety Net Services, Ltd.Food Safety Net Services shares, with its customers, the vision of food safety from "farm to fork" by providing a comprehensive, integrated network of laboratory, consulting, auditing, and educational services complemented by crisis management programs and regulatory support. For further information about Food Safety Net Services, Ltd., please visit their Web site at www.food-safetynet.com.
About LabVantage Solutions. LabVantage Solutions, a Chatterjee Group company, is the leader in Life Sciences LIMS and Enterprise LIMS solutions. LabVantage helps customers reach beyond the traditional four walls of the laboratory with solutions that enable information sharing via intranets and extranets. LabVantage has data management and information production software for high throughput screening, genomics, proteomics and traditional manufacturing QA/QC. LabVantage products excel in the areas of workflow process automation, open database modeling, and integration of multiple data sources into a single browser interface. The company also offers services that ensure customer success, such as industry and technology consulting, implementation services, application training, and extensive customer support services. For further information about LabVantage Solutions, please visit our Web site at www.labvantage.com.
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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