Who should go paperless?

Electronic Laboratory Notebooks have been delivering real benefit to laboratories that are focused on R&D Discovery

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For years now, Electronic Laboratory Notebooks have been delivering real benefit to laboratories that are focused on R&D Discovery. For them a paperless environment is:

Free form and unstructured
Supports “one of a kind” experimentation
Focuses on data collaboration

With the introduction of the ELN for Routine Analyses, a different group of laboratories are able to benefit from the advantages of going paperless. For these laboratories, an Electronic Laboratory Notebook will help them to:

Ensure quality/consistency of results
Eliminate costs and bottlenecks associated with managing paper based forms
Improve access to test results and information

Any laboratory (from R&D right through to QC labs for manufacturing and contract testing labs) that is doing standardized testing on a regular basis and is using pen, paper and spreadsheets to manage those tests is ready to go paperless.

Laboratories with no informatics infrastructure

Laboratories that haven’t started to build their informatics infrastructure recognize that electronic data management could make them more efficient and productive – but they often don’t know where to begin.

For these laboratories, an Electronic Laboratory Notebook for Routine Analysis is an ideal first step towards improving data management by attacking one of the major sources of inefficiency and data congestion - paper based worksheets and routine analyses.

Using an ELN to eliminate the frustration of managing the completion, approval, storage and retrieval of paper-based forms is a relatively quick and cost effective way to start building an integrated informatics system.

Laboratories with an existing informatics infrastructure

Laboratories that already have a sophisticated informatics infrastructure in place will understand the benefits of automated, electronic data management.

However, many of them still struggle with paper based procedures and analyses that aren’t fully integrated with their other informatics systems.

An ELN for Routine Analysis converts their paper worksheets into electronic documents, applying a high level of automation and control to the completion of those documents and integrating them with all of their other informatics systems.
An ELN for Routine Analysis can help these laboratories to truly maximize their investment in informatics - tying their existing applications together, actively sharing information between applications and delivering that information right to the analyst, at the time of analysis.

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