STRATEGIC PARTNERS
STARLIMS works closely with our Strategic Partners to maximize the value of our combined products and technology to provide added value to our customers. We do this by providing functional and technological solutions that meet the real business needs of our customers.
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is a leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. EMC helps enterprises of all sizes manage their growing volumes of information—from creation to disposal—according to its changing value to the business through information lifecycle management (ILM) strategies. The company combines best-of-breed platforms, software, and services into high-value, low-risk information infrastructure solutions that help organizations maximize the value of their information assets, improve service levels, lower costs, react quickly to change, achieve compliance with regulations, protect information from loss and unauthorized access, and manage and automate more of their overall infrastructure. These solutions integrate networked storage technologies, storage systems, software, and services.
STARLIMS have worked with EMC to integrate EMC’s Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system with the STARLIMS Scientific Document Management System (SDMS). This provides a total solution for the capture of documents and unstructured data, their transformation into usable data and information for the laboratory and organization and the long term storage and preservation of the original documents. This allows organizations to fully realize the full value of both current and historical data and to ensure that the data is available for as long as it may be required.
STARLIMS is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner. From business planning to customer retention, the Microsoft Partner Program offers a single, integrated partnering framework that recognizes expertise and rewards companies for the total impact they have in the technology marketplace. The Microsoft Partner Program is designed for all partners who develop and market solutions based on Microsoft platforms, provide consulting or technical services on Microsoft systems, or recommend Microsoft technology purchases. Microsoft partners include consulting services providers, independent software vendors (ISVs), independent hardware vendors, large account resellers (LARs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), support providers, system integrators, system builders, training providers, value-added resellers, and value-added providers.
Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and have the closest working relationship with Microsoft. STARLIMS is certified for both The Service Orientated and Business Solution Competency and The Data Management Solutions Competency, reflecting STARLIMS’ business focus. The Gold level of certification indicates STARLIMS’ commitment to working with Microsoft technologies to provide customers with standard technology solutions for their laboratory informatics needs.
Waters (NYSE: WAT) creates business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations by delivering practical and sustainable scientific innovation to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality. Waters chromatography data software packages help the entire laboratory operate more effectively. Waters Empower™ 2 Software, the flagship chromatography data software (CDS), makes it easy to run samples and produce meaningful results without experiencing downtime for training, re-engineering workflow, or adding new software to support instruments or advanced chromatographic techniques. With enhanced 21 CFR Part 11 compliance capabilities, Empower 2 takes your ability to manage data integrity, advanced security features and audit trails to new levels.
Waters and STARLIMS Corporations have developed and released a seamless interface between the Waters Empower Chromatography Software and STARLIMS’ Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). The interface enables the STARLIMS and Empower applications to communicate and share information about samples requiring testing and the results of that testing, eliminating any possible transcriptions errors and speeding up the flow of data and information within the laboratory and the organization.
SOLUTION PARTNERS
By combining, or integrating, the products or services of STARLIMS and our Solution Providers we aim to provide enterprise wide integration of data and information. We also aim to ensure that the data and information generated and available can be processed and presented in a way that helps the decision making process within the organization. In addition we are members of standards bodies working to create common standards within the industry that will help the common exchange of information.
Business Objects is the makers of Crystal Reports - the most popular reporting software in the world. With Crystal Reports, STARLIMS can deliver interactive content from virtually any data source, publish to the Web in a variety of formats, and integrate it with applications. It's the world standard in high-performance reporting with more than 5 million copies sold. Crystal Reports is the industry standard SQL reporting tool. It provides complete flexibility in the design and layout of report.
Data Innovations, Inc. (DII) is the pre-eminent provider of medical instrument interface solutions to a wide range of customers, including laboratories, laboratory automation equipment manufacturers, laboratory information system vendors, medical device manufacturers, and quality control materials vendors. Data Innovations’ Instrument Manager NT (IM) is combined with STARLIMS a comprehensive Laboratory Information System for the high–end clinical and blood bank markets.
Northwest Analytical (NWA) is the leading provider of SPC software tools that enable intelligent, information-based decisions necessary to effectively manage and improve plant processes in manufacturing enterprises and supply chains. For more than 20 years, NWA has been dedicated to providing statistical analysis tools that provide a better understanding of processes enabling manufacturers to trim costs, boost performance and increase profits.
By integrating the data generated and managed within STARLIMS with NWA’s statistical analysis tools, real and meaningful quality data can be generated and analyzed to provide users with the information they need to effectively manage their laboratory, analytical and manufacturing processes.
Orion Systems International delivers a complete, end-to-end IT integration platform for information systems of all kinds. Orion's easy-to-use tools and applications integrate and enhance existing systems and deliver secure, universal access to information. Orion's clinical information solutions have been used and trusted around the world for ten years. Orion has more than 1,000 clients worldwide including Johns Hopkins Hospital, New York State Department of Health, Central Washington Hospital, McKesson, NaviMedix, CDC, Abbott Laboratories and many more. The partnership between Orion and STARLIMS is particularly targeted at providing support for agencies involved in the Centers for Disease Control’s nationwide PHIN initiative, which aims to build a standard framework for the consistent exchange of response, health, and disease tracking data between public health partners throughout the United States.
STARLIMS is a member of the OPC Foundation, which is dedicated to ensuring interoperability in automation. The OPC Foundation creates and maintains open specifications that standardize the communication of acquired process data, alarm and event records, historical data, and batch data to multi-vendor enterprise systems and between production devices. OPC standards are used in a wide range of applications, from process industries and manufacturing to oil, gas and mining industries.
By meeting OPC standards, STARLIMS is able to integrate data from a wide range of systems into its web-based LIMS platform. Conversely, LIMS data can be shared with process control systems. The result is a seamless flow of information within the laboratory-centric organization, with no need for customized interfaces.
Oracle's business is information—how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided the software and services that let organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems.
As a member of the Oracle Partner Network (OPN) STARLIMS supports Oracle as one of its underlying Relational Database Systems, allowing customers to leverage the benefits of running Oracle across their key information systems within the enterprise.
RasMoi
RasMol is a molecular graphics program intended for the visualisation of proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules. The program is aimed at display, teaching and generation of publication quality images. RasMol runs on wide range of architectures and operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, UNIX and VMS systems. For more information on RasMol see http://www.rasmol.org/
SAP is the world's leading provider of e-business software solutions. Today, more than 13,000 companies in over 100 countries run more than 30,000 installations of SAP(r) software.
STARLIMS integration with SAP is at the SAP Certified Integration via Enterprise Services level. This level of certification can only be achieved by utilizing the latest SAP Enterprise Services and was achieved because of the Web based nature of the STARLIMS product and its ability to expose and consume Web Services. The certification is not limited to any one module within SAP and STARLIMS can integrate with a wide variety of SAP modules, including QM, via Enterprise Services.