How and how not to buy a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)

Nov. 20, 2008 - PRLog -- The LIMS Selection Guide aims to help anyone considering purchasing a new Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). It is intended to give some hard inside and honest information that will help keep you on track, avoid some of the pitfalls and get your company the system that it needs. The guide is aimed at those looking for a system to handle sample tracking for a small laboratory through to a full function LIMS for an enterprise / global operation. You might need a system for many or just a few concurrent users.

When to use this guide

You should use this guide from the day from which you start thinking of a new system, up to and even beyond the time of placing the order for a new system. This might be a few months or a few years. If your company already has a system which does all you want, you can stop reading. If you are unfortunate enough to have bought a system that isn't quite right, it might show where things went wrong (remember that more than 50% of LIMS implementations are said to fail!)




LIMS Selection Guide Document Outline

Introduction
Setting out your requirements
Finding / filtering potential suppliers
The propaganda: does computer sales literature mean anything?
Where does software come from?
Demonstrations
Consultants and specifications
Four main reasons why companies buy the wrong software
Fast enough and big enough
Support and Maintenance
The Hardware
The Supplier's Support Staff
Checking up on the supplier
Placing the order
Planning for a new system

To get your free copy of the Autoscribe LIMS Selection Guide please eMail: matrix@autoscribe.co.uk

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Autoscribe Limited is a world leader in the development and supply of successful LIMS (Laboratory Information Management Systems) and software solutions for the scientific laboratory and business markets.