An interesting post on Simon Coles’ ELN Blog paints a dark picture of the RFP process. If we’re brutally honest, then the post doesn’t tell us anything that we didn’t already know, but weren’t prepared to admit. There seem to be two underlying themes around the points raised; firstly, to what extent are [...]

The SMi Group held their annual ELN conference in London last week, under the title ‘ELN: Laboratory Informatics for the 21st Century’. The programme contained a full range of good quality presentations on all aspects of ELNs and related topics that represented the state of the industry. As with most conferences on this [...]

Do end-users fit the informatics requirements?
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There have been a number of posts on this site about the potential benefits of a fully integrated lab.  I expect few would argue against the vision of a seamless integration between laboratory and business applications, with ready access to data and information, and which would provide an environment that enables us, and our businesses, [...]

John Trigg made a post where he talked about project issues such as buy-in. As I started to reply to it to discuss the difficult issue of dealing with people on our laboratory informatics projects, I realized this could fill a book, so I could at least make a separate post for it.
Regardless how many [...]