Earlier this month, we published a post on The Lab of the Future, with 5 predictions envisioning the dominance of data, AI, connectivity & collaboration, instrumentation integration and more. A recent comment to one of our team members caught my [...]
Modern laboratories are changing. New technologies are helping streamline processes, increase throughput, perform work with greater accuracy, and interact more seamlessly with a global community of colleagues, partners, and customers. These exciting new capabilities represent a quantum leap forward for [...]
Digitization of your lab’s data is increasingly vital to performance and profitability. Today, that data represents a business advantage. Tomorrow, it’s likely to be mission-critical – or even existential. Digital transformation (DT) is more than a buzzword – it has [...]
Digital transformation has become a buzzword across many industries. Which ones are leading the way? Digital transformation (DT) — using digital technologies to create or modify your processes, culture, or customer experiences — requires more than just moving ‘from paper [...]
2020 was the year digital transformation (DT) – the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business – shifted from a business catchphrase to an organizational necessity. Labs of all types found themselves positioned, willingly or unwillingly, on [...]
Cybersecurity grabbed headlines at the tail-end of 2020 (as if they really needed any more ‘grabbing’), with news in December of massive cyberattacks against the U.S. government. From ZDNet: “Cyberattackers certainly haven't given anyone a break this year. Data breaches, [...]
As promising news about vaccines continues roll in, there finally seems to be a light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel. The pandemic may have lingering effects as hotspots re-erupt, but at some point in the next 12 months, [...]
We interact with labs across many different sectors — the chemical industry, pharma and biopharmaceuticals, petrochemical refineries, the food & beverage industry, biobanking and many more. What’s the one thing they all have in common, despite industry differences? Data. And [...]
For many of us informatics nerds, 2020 may well be remembered as the year when the rest of the world finally began to appreciate the importance of informatics. While the average layperson tracking the progression of COVID-19 across the country [...]