Top 5 Essential Features For Lab Management Software
The global laboratory information management system market size, valued at 1.85 Billion USD in 2021, is growing rapidly at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.0% from 2022 to 2030.
The high demand for laboratory information management systems is the result of technological advancements pertinent to life science laboratories, stringent regulatory requirements and the rising interest in lab automation.
However, there are hundreds of lab management software in the market, leaving the lab managers, lab informatics teams and scientists overwhelmed with options.
To help you choose the best lab management software, we've listed 5 must-haves every lab should expect from their lab software vendors.
1. Templates for repeatable research and operational processes
Every lab needs to have standardized workflows to ensure reproducibility of their experiments, eliminate experiment error rates, preserve institutional knowledge and increase the output. The lab management software you’re using should be able to make templates of your repeatable protocols, experiments, standard operating procedures and even operational processes such as approval flows, multi-well plates, request forms, notifications rules and much more.
Scispot makes all of this possible by allowing you to drag & drop pre-populated protocols or SOP templates and set automation rules to prepare your R&D projects with unrivaled speed.
2. Strong framework for internal and external collaboration
Lab work is a team effort. You need to be able to collaborate, notify and selectively invite your labmates, partners, customers, and vendors (e.g., CROs, core labs, etc.) so that research is done the right way.
Keeping everyone up to date on Scispot is a cinch. Scispot helps you to collaborate with your customers or CROs on R&D projects and share the results in no time flat.
3. Global search functionality for instant data access
Storing data is hardly of any use if you can't easily find your data, filter it and make correlations to extract essential insights on a daily basis. With the right lab management system, you should be able to retrieve information at a moment’s notice using different parameters such as samples, customers, partners, experiments, locations, instruments, project, file type, etc.
4. Compatibility with 3rd-party apps & your legacy systems to centralize data in one spot
The most important asset of any lab is its data. However, the data only becomes valuable when it is structured correctly, machine-readable and has all the context associated with it -- for this to happen, you need to bring in data from multiple sources and connect them with the proper context. Your lab management software should be able to centralize data from 3rd-party apps, your legacy systems and instruments.
Scispot connects with hundreds of 3rd-party apps (Hubspot, Google Sheets, Shopify, etc.) and legacy systems (ELN, LIMS, LES, etc.) to unify all of your data in one spot.
5. A wide array of customizable and configurable offerings
Every life science company is unique, so lab software should be able to adapt to the diverse scientific needs of each one. You cannot and should not use a rigid off-the-shelf product like ELN (electronic lab notebook) and LIMS (lab information management system).
Scispot offers no-code configuration, a developer toolkit and custom engineering support to personalize the platform for every life science company -- be it a contract research organization (CRO), industrial biotech company or biomanufacturer.
Scispot is more than a LIMS or ELN platform. It is fully configurable, highly intuitive and completely integratable with other 3rd-party tools such as Google Sheets and Asana.
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