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Biology, templates and clouds; ELNs in Amsterdam

IQPC’s annual ELN conference celebrated its 9th birthday in Amsterdam last week, and despite the concern that ELN conferences will progressively fade away as the industry matures, the attendance was up (delegates and vendors), and all in all, the event was quite lively. The conference spanned three days, kicking off with a ‘focus day’ targeted [...]

Cloud Computing

There has been a growing level of interest in the potential of SaaS (Software as a Service) as an alternative means of deployment for LIMS and ELNs. SaaS is an attractive option since it has the potential to simplify installation, deployment, and maintenance. Furthermore, is is globally accessible, and allegedly more affordable that a conventional [...]

Do ELNs in the cloud have a silver lining?

I posted an item on the growing number of offerings of software-as a-service (SaaS) ELNs a few weeks ago. With a number of vendors looking to take advantage of this method of delivery, the underlying question is whether this represents a genuine benefit to customers, or whether it is a fashionable trend. The appeal of [...]

ELNs in the cloud

Cloud computing has been getting a lot of airtime lately based on its potential to provide ‘accessible-from-anywhere’ applications and data. A browser is basically all you need to get access to whatever you need to get access to, in principle, anyway. From the end-users’ perspective, the term Software as a Service (SaaS) is the more [...]

Cloud Computing and e-Discovery

The Cloud: Tomorrow’s EDD Challenge is an article by Nolan M.Goldberg and Sharada Devarasetty published on the www.law.com website. Although not directly dealing with any laboratory IP concerns, it does make some general points about the possible impact of cloud computing with regard to electronic discovery and this will have relevance to anyone giving thought [...]