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| SAPPHIRE™ LIMS |
| Increase Productivity, Lower Operating Costs, Improve Quality |
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| Features & Benefits
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SAPPHIRE contains a combination of rich functionality and simple user configurability, providing laboratories with a robust solution that will help them decrease costs, and improve quality, productivity, and profit margins. In addition, the solution carries a low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Its thin-client architecture provides a powerful, low-cost, low-maintenance framework for today's competitive laboratory environment, particularly when compared to client/server implementations, which typically bear a high cost of deploying applications to a large end-user base. Features and Benefits of SAPPHIRE include:
| Secure Access |
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Thin-client architecture enables system access to users both internal and external to the lab |
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Provides application and user-specific, role-based security schemes |
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Compatible with firewalls, VPN software, and security needs, whether your laboratory accesses information via the Web, VPN, or over a corporate network |
| Ubiquitous Global Deployment |
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Multinationalization (M18N) compliance for data translation, time zones, regional settings, and date formatting coupled with Unicode support enables seamless multi-site and multi-language deployment and collaboration. |
| Enhanced User Experience |
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Leveraging a true zero footprint thin-client architecture, SAPPHIRE R5 lowers cost of ownership by providing secure enterprise-wide access with no plugins, downloads, or applets on the client. |
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SAPPHIRE R5 includes greater out-of-the-box configuration options with over 600 pre-configured SAPPHIRE templates ready to deploy and/or modify. |
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Additional security options, calculations and business rules provide improved security and knowledge management based on a user's role and/or department. |
| Workflow Automation |
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Automates business and decision processes to reduce costs and streamline operations. |
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Provides the ability to mirror any customer work or decision process graphically. |
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Virtually eliminates the need for LabVantage or DBA support for Workflow database changes, while protecting the core source code. |
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Provides the ability to configure Workflows based upon security and user role within the customer's organization. |
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Provides a library of pre-configured Workflow components to streamline the process of configuring a solution. |
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Leverages and integrates external data sources to help "direct" tasks for further streamlining of automation. |
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| Configurability |
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Easy to configure using the built-in Evergreen Web Page Designer
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Helps SAPPHIRE users reduce implementation time and expense, as well as ongoing maintenance costs by providing property-driven, inheritance-based, configurable web pages. |
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Quickly change system architecture, database configuration, user administration, business process automation and end-user interface configurations |
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Extensive library of page types to jump-start configuration and system enhancements |
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Extensive library of Wizard Task API types to improve end-user training and SOP adoption |
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| Expanded Suite of Functional Modules |
SAPPHIRE Module |
Functionality |
Key Benefits |
Reagent and Standards Management |
Complete solution for the management, maintenance, and tracking of laboratory consumables |
Standardizing formula creation and maintenance. Optimizing shipment, management, tracking control, and reordering of standard and laboratory created consumables. |
Stability |
Automating shelf-life testing
and determination of product
batch stability |
Meeting requirements stipulated in 21 CFR 211 through ensuring
products distributed to the
public remain chemically and structurally unwavering |
Advanced Storage and Logistics (ASL) |
Inventory tracking and
logistics management for
samples, reagents, and any
other items in the laboratory |
Accurately tracking complex
laboratory item acquisition,
location, and disposition
with robust custodial
tracking |
BioBanking |
Centralized biological specimen data capture and tracking with heightened regulatory compliance |
Addressing the unique challenges of specimen collection and banking for complete biorepository
management |
Corrective Action and Preventive Action (CAPA) |
Monitoring quality control and assurance |
Maintaining compliance with standards and regulatory guidelines |
Clustering |
Facilitating load balancing and scalability by enabling multiple nodes in a cluster |
Achieving enhanced
performance, scalability, and reliability |
SAPPHIRE Enterprise Connector (SEC) |
Certified integration of
SAPPHIRE with SAP ERP
system powered by SAP
Netweaver™ |
Enabling real-time data
transfer between SAPPHIRE
and SAP to accelerate
time-to-market and facilitate
decision-making processes |
| Comprehensive Reporting and Analytics-Driven Decision Support |
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SAPPHIRE Dashboards - powerful business management tool provides an “at a glance” view of definable key performance indicators (KPIs). |
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SAPPHIRE Ad-hoc Query Tool - real-time "in-application" data mining and analysis without the need for SQL programming. |
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SAPPHIRE Reporting - seamlessly embedded, on-demand reporting and data visualization tools. |
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SAPPHIRE Advanced Reporting – robust information and performance management tools powered by Business Objects™. |
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SAPPHIRE Analytics - built-in visual charting for control charts and trend charts. |
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SAPPHIRE Advanced Analytics - full-featured SPC charting and statistics powered by Northwest Analytical®. |
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SAPPHIRE Operational Intelligence – real-time, workflow-driven, multi-source data integration, visualization, and analytics powered by InforSense™. |
| Multple Application Server Options |
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Expansive support for industry-leading application servers including:
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IBM WebSphere® |
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BEA WebLogic® |
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Sybase® EA Server |
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JBoss™ Application Server |
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| System Integration |
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Leveraging Internet technologies such as Java, HTML, XML, Web Services, HTTP and JavaScript, SAPPHIRE integrates with existing customer-specific internal or external systems such as:
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SAP and other ERP/MRP Systems |
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Analytical Devices |
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Instruments |
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Robotic Systems |
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