How does the SmartLab solution differ from a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)?
In fact, SmartLab can be PART of a LIMS initiative at any company. The “Total LIMS” requirements have both an administration function and a lab execution function. Traditional LIMS deployments require substantial custom coding and validation in an attempt to integrate with the laboratory processes (analysts and instruments). VelQuest provides a COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) product that fully integrates with any LIMS solution and eliminates the costs and time constraints when attempting to drive a LIMS technology into the lab environment. The LIMS administration functions such as sample management, trending, reporting etc. can be implemented quickly with SmartLab integrating the entire “lab execution” tasks. In doing this your LIMS initiative can be completed in far less the time and costs of attempting to do the whole job using only the LIMS custom coding process. Our users refer to this strategy as a “thin LIMS” deployment.
