LabVantage Showcases Pharmaceutical LIMS at Pittcon 2000
The latest industry-specific release in LabVantage's LIMS product family is targeted to biopharmaceutical companies, specifically laboratories servicing drug discovery, development, regulatory compliance, and quality assurance. By offering several products that support pharmaceutical development at strategic stages between discovery and production, LabVantage hopes pharmaceutical companies will embrace their LIMS products for all their information management needs.
LabVantage's pharmaceutical LIMS is its first product offering a single configurable platform addressing all phases of drug development. Application-specific modules extend the base architecture to provide user-specific functionality for which pharm companies normally must purchase discrete, stand-alone applications. Broad functionality allows every bit and byte to be created, stored, and reported across the complete laboratory enterprise, from discovery to manufacturing.
According to Terrence Garrity, senior VP for enterprise business development at LabVantage, this LIMS product allows users to share information across critical operating units required in drug development and manufacturing. The goal is (what else?) to accelerate the New Drug Application process while reducing cost and time-to-market.
Garrity explained how he expects the relationship between his firm and pharm customers to grow: "We come I with a specific strategic software solution and ‘grow' it across the entire enterprise, from screening throught discovery and into clinical trials. LabVantage and pharmaceutical companies. Customers might first approach us because of, say, compound library problems. Once they embrace our approach they can adopt our products backwards, through discovery, or forwards, through quality assurance for finished products."
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LVS has been providing LIMS software since 1981 and claims to be the world's largest independent LIMS supplier, with over 850 customer sites around the world. The company plans to continue upgrading ad introducing new LIMS products throughout 2000. "LVS is committed to providing customers with choices. This is the heart of our ‘YourLIMS' strategy," says Rick Dool, president and CEO of LVS.
Visit LabVantage at Pittcon, booth 6953.
For more information: Linda Saling, LabVantage Solutions, 245 Highway 22 West, Bridgewater, NJ 08807. Tel: 908-707-4100.
By Angelo DePalma