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News Release from: Autoscribe
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 September 2005
How to buy LIMS
Autoscribe is offering a new free LIMS selection guide based on over 60 years of 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) 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
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 16 May 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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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.
I f 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. Request free introductory details about products from Autoscribe ...
Planning for a new system.
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