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Management Buy-in and User Acceptance in an ELN Project

Management buy-in and user acceptance are two factors regularly identified as critical to the successful outcome of a project. It’s been encouraging to observe, over recent years, that most case studies presented on the deployment of Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) that these are two factors that are given more and more consideration in project planning. [...]

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Considerations for laboratory software expansions and upgrades.

Headaches about upgrading your software?  Considerations for software expansions and upgrades. Before you decide to rock the boat, several key decision-making steps can help to ensure a smooth and successful upgrade. The last thing to do is to start is a project to change a working enterprise application environment…. Are you ready to sail?

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Laboratory information and acronyms

LIMS is Dead! Long live LIMS! – That’s the title of a post on Jeffrey Lee’s JAL Pharmatics website which attracted my attention when it popped up in my RSS Reader. It makes interesting reading, particularly if you substituted your favourite acronym e.g. ELN, SDM, etc. for LIMS. I suspect Jeffrey’s argument (that a specific [...]

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Experiences of piloting and integrating an ELN

I’ve just listened to a podcast by Dr Ian Berry, Principle Scientist, Applications Developer and eScience Manager for Evotec UK in which he talks about Evotec’s experiences of piloting and integrating an ELN.

In the podcast Ian discusses how chemistry and biology have very different sets of requirements and how Evotec had to readdress, tailor [...]

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ELN Implementation Planning Workshop

These are some of the questions that I received in advance of the ELN Implementation Workshop at IQPC’s 9th annual conference on ELNs. The answers are a mix of my opinions and the consensus of the workshop attendees. For anybody viewing this post, please feel free to add your own comments.

The workshop slides are [...]

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