Accelrys, Inc., a US-based provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, has announced the expansion of the Accelrys Process Management and Compliance Suite with the addition of the Accelrys Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). The move is aimed to transform the traditional LIMS market with a unified, more-than-LIMS offering that improves overall product quality, increases operational effectiveness and accelerates innovation.
The Accelrys LIMS, with a specific focus on scale-up, manufacturing and compliance, is projected to offer a process and execution driven architecture for data management that eliminates the complexities, excessive customisation and associated lengthy validation requirements inherent to legacy LIMS. The result is streamlined deployments, a substantially lower total cost of ownership and rapid time to value.
Accelrys claims to be the first lab informatics company with process execution applications - Accelrys Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN), Accelrys Laboratory Execution System (LES) and Accelrys Electronic Batch Records (EBR) - that has expanded into the LIMS market. As part of the suite, Accelrys LIMS seeks to leverage this process execution foundation to deliver a process-centric approach to laboratory operations that stands in contrast to the traditional sample-centric approach taken by legacy LIMS.
This is seen to enable organisations to manage change and organisational complexities in a systemic way to achieve repeatability and consistency of procedures, automatically validate operational changes and maintain a lower total cost of ownership. The Accelrys LIMS combined with the suite's Accelrys ELN, Accelrys LES, Accelrys EBR, Accelrys Discoverant and the scientifically aware Accelrys Enterprise Platform (AEP), is stated to provide a holistic, end-to-end informatics offering that makes valuable data locked in silos accessible and searchable across the enterprise.
Kathy Shanks, lab manager at PPD, will discuss 'The Role of a Lab Execution System and Inventory Management System in a CRO cGMP Environment' at Accelrys' LIMS launch event, being held from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. in conjunction with the annual Pittcon Conference & Expo. Accelrys will also feature the Process Management and Compliance Suite at the annual Pittcon Conference & Expo in booth 1810 from March 18 - 21.
