LIMS Selection Guide

LIMS Selection - A New Free LIMS Selection Guide

Autoscribe has over 90 years of management experience in designing, developing, delivering and supporting LIMS solutions to labs in many industries.  In that time, we have gathered together a lot of information on what makes a good system, what makes a bad one, the issues to bear in mind, and the problems to look out for.

We have now put all of this information into a guide, which is specifically aimed at organizations looking to purchase a new LIMS.  It gives practical advice and inside information, whether you are buying a sample tracking system for a modest-sized lab or LIMS for a global enterprise.

This guide is useful reading from the moment you start to consider purchasing a LIMS.  It is even useful after such as purchase, in order to check the performance of the system you have deployed.  The only situation in which the guide is redundant is when your system is working perfectly and fulfilling every requirement.

50% of LIMS implementations go wrong.  Don’t let yours be one of them – get the guide and get the experience of the market leader behind you.

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


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