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News Release from: Autoscribe | Subject: LIMS selection Guide
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 September 2005
A New Free LIMS Selection Guide.
How and how not to buy a Laboratory Information Management System
Autoscribe is offering a new free LIMS selection guide which is based on over 60 years of practical management experience, specifying and delivering, successful LIMS solutions to any laboratory in any industry The free LIMS Selection Guide aims to help anyone considering purchasing a new Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 16 May 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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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.
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.
1 Introduction.
2 Setting out your requirements.
3 Finding/filtering potential suppliers.
4 The propaganda: does computer sales literature mean anything?.
5 Where does software come from?.
6 Demonstrations.
7 Consultants and specifications.
8 Four main reasons why companies buy the wrong software.
9 Fast enough and big enough.
10 Support and Maintenance.
11 The hardware.
12 The supplier's support staff.
13 Checking up on the supplier.
14 Placing the order.
15 Planning for a new system. Request a free brochure from Autoscribe ...
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