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Matrix Gemini LIMS: The best solution for your most vital information management need

It’s a fact of life – LIMS solutions need to change over time.
 
At the beginning, when a laboratory implements a LIMS solution, the specification, no matter how carefully written, probably does not completely reflect the user’s requirements.  This is because the specification was necessarily prepared some time before the implementation.  In addition, the process of implementation itself will give both user and implementation team a deeper insight into what is really needed.
 
As implementation goes on, the LIMS will change.  The degree to which it can change to meet user requirements more closely will depend upon its own inherent flexibility.  During the LIMS lifetime in production, it will be subject to many requests to change or enhance its features and facilities.
 
Matrix Gemini LIMS delivers a suite of tools developed to help the implementor to configure the system more closely to the user’s present needs, and to help the administrator to continue to modify the system as the user’s general business and particular requirements change.
 
Features such as a wizard-based interface and facilities such as a LIMS configuration knowledgebase fast-track the vendor, user or administrator in their development of end-user screens.

Straightforward to configure and use

For a solution of such power, Matrix Gemini LIMS is very easy to configure and use.  The progress of a sample through the lab can be represented graphically, allowing the user to click on a specific icon to go straight to that phase of the LIMS lifecycle.

This is an example screen for the food industry.  Users may configure and deploy screens such as this is for any application eg Training Record Management, Stability Study Management, Nuclear Industry LIMS, LIMS for Contract and Environmental Labroatories and LIMS for the Food Industry. Matrix Gemini LIMS has a track record of successfully implementing solutions in all of these and more sectors.

The screen below illustrates the color coding used to show the stages in the lab processing.  Rules may be applied so that, as work gets more and more urgent, different colors are used to flag this deadline.

LIMS requirements are as numerous and varied as the companies that use them, so Autoscribe supplies standard LIMS, scaleable LIMS and fully configurable LIMS.  Autoscribe products are faster to deploy, easier to use, offer greater return on investment and are designed with the user’s needs more clearly and closely in mind.

Matrix Gemini LIMS can be used on desktop client/server and web-based systems.  An important benefit of  the Autoscribe’s LIMS architecture is that the OneTime configuration tool ensures that menus and screens developed for the system may be used in both of these environments. Screens and workflows may be readily created by a trained user or your local Technical Services team. No custom code/programming or esoteric scripting is required to configure the system. This ensures that the system is always supportable and upgradeable, a clear advantage of Matrix Gemini LIMS vs competitive systems.

– Business benefits at a glance:

• Reduced total cost of ownership through shared central server
• Minimized installation, upgrade, maintenance, validation and support costs through centralized server
• Minimized training costs through remote training after initial installation
• OneTime configuration enables unfied desktop client and web access
• OneTime configuration minimizes configuration effort and support costs
• Fully supported configuration for each site – screens, menus, access – with overall view for management
• Minimized transcription errors through maximum use of input devices

Matrix Gemini LIMS is a true Microsoft .NET application

We believe that building our LIMS solutions using C# on the Microsoft .NET platform offers our customers many significant benefits.  Its Microsoft pedigree means a high degree of integration with the operating system and an ability to take full advantage of Windows.  Microsoft is at the heart of computing, and we are confident in basing our technology on theirs.