Author: Craig Harper
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Why Researchers Want an ELN
Better productivity, particularly better organization, is the number one reason given by clients for wanting an ELN in their laboratories, according to our 2011 client survey report1. In that case they are in the right spot, as electronic lab notebooks are reported to improve efficiency by 25% or more2. Other major driving factors for implementing…
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Data Longevity and Backup Solutions
Backup Solutions As we have been discussing, data security wouldn’t be complete without a robust solution to backup your critical information. Often when performing databased backups on complex enterprise document management systems a simple backup of the database does not capture all of the information, data files, metadata and versioning records which may be stored…
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5 Ways to Protect IP in Research Collaborations
Collaboration today is distributed across disciplines, org charts, and enterprises in an internet-enabled environment. These partnerships deliver tremendous benefits through innovative idea generation, shared technologies, lower costs, greater speed and agility, and a range of talents and expertise not always practical to maintain within a single organization. The successful creation, capture, and exploitation of resulting…
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More on Data Security
In continuing with our discussion of security components that are critical to Cloud or On-Premise (Enterprise) applications, Data Security has to be among the top issues for ELN and LIMS systems. In the ELN market, “data” is information stored in many different formats, from files to databases on many different devices from network servers, personal…
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Using Scorecards to Rank Security Needs
Last week we briefly discussed the fact that security means different things to different people depending on their job function, point-of-view, or context. Often a purchase decision needs cross-functional teams comprised of the different stakeholders affected when evaluating Enterprise or Cloud Software security solutions. What good does it do for IT to mandate a system because…
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Shared Vocabularies: Research Needs Catch Up With Our ELN
What happens when researchers identify the same information by different terms? “We advocate that vocabulary standards become an intrinsic element within industry softwareConsider the difficulties created in later finding or sharing existing research, whether internally through staff turnover or externally among an increasingly collaborative scientific community, when information is not recorded or tagged with uniform…