Looking for a LIMS? Compare STARLIMS to LabWare.
See for yourself why STARLIMS is the best LIMS choice for your lab.
Selecting a LIMS isn’t easy. Trying to decide between multiple LIMS vendors like LabVantage, LabWare, Thermo Fisher, Veeva, BIOVIA, Autoscribe, IDBS, QBench, and Benchling (to name a few), can be overwhelming. Because ultimately, it’s not just about the features—it’s also about choosing a long-term partner who can support your goals today and evolve with you as your needs change.
As a globally recognized leader in laboratory information management systems (LIMS), STARLIMS is the best LIMS vendor to help you simplify operations, improve lab testing, increase efficiency, speed batch release, and deliver exceptional results. Don’t believe us? Learn how STARLIMS compares to LabWare.
Why Choose STARLIMS vs. LabWare LIMS
Backed by nearly 40 years of experience serving labs around the globe, STARLIMS combines deep industry expertise with the most complete LIMS informatics platform on the market—making it a top choice for enterprise (and now SMB!) organizations. With 157 reviews and a rating of 4.5 out of 5 on customer review site G2, you can see for yourself why customers consistently choose STARLIMS over LabWare.
While both STARLIMS and LabWare offer strong LIMS functionality, STARLIMS beat LabWare in five of the seven main categories that G2 ranks vendors on – especially when looking at product direction. That’s because STARLIMS is the only vendor that has a truly complete R&D Quality Manufacturing Informatics Platform. By combining the power of LIMS with ELN, LES, SDMS, and Advanced Analytics software, STARLIMS allows you to accelerate time to market with less overhead—all the way from early stage R&D through to commercialization.
According to its own G2 customer reviews, LabWare is seen as “not intuitive at all,” has “very little OOTB functionality,” and “horrendous documentation.” LabWare customers say its technology “hasn’t caught up to their competitors on user friendliness.” It’s also noted that LabWare software is dated and can run slow, with one person mentioning the “data entry and admin screens haven’t changed in 20 years.”
Instead of choosing a LIMS vendor with technology that’s outdated, not user friendly, and unintuitive, laboratory managers are choosing STARLIMS because of its “flexibility, ease-of-use, user-friendly interface,” and “efficient functionality.”
At STARLIMS, we’re focused on providing the best LIMS and LIMS add-on solutions possible, while delivering the white-glove service our prospects and customers deserve. From out-of-the-box reports and workflows, to seamless device and system integration and end-to-end traceability, STARLIMS has all the features, functions, and capabilities your lab needs to be successful.
Championed by Customers Worldwide
STARLIMS also doesn’t just focus on what you need today—we keep our eyes on the future to address changing laboratory needs. With robust LIMS solutions that support quality manufacturing, public health, and clinical labs, we continue to innovate and create products that help our customers scale, like adding an R&D ELN to our portfolio, launching a SaaS out-of-the-box Batch Manufacturing LIMS for SMB labs, or creating the best next-gen Public Health LIMS available on market. You can learn more about our solutions and customer success stories below.
Select Your Laboratory Information Management System
Quality Manufacturing LIMS
Get to market faster with a holistic view of lab operations. Automate workflows, improve processes, and enhance productivity.
Clinical LIMS
Easily collect, track, and study specimens while enabling compliance and best practices.
Public Health LIMS
Stay ahead of health risks by streamlining and automating lab operations for better sample management.
Need Something Less Robust? Learn about Our New QM Essentials LIMS!
SaaS, fast, and scalable, Quality Manufacturing (QM) Essentials is a cloud-based LIMS designed to help small and medium-sized batch manufacturing laboratories launch quickly with all the key workflows needed to achieve improved and accurate sample testing, simplified compliance, and expedited batch release. Deliver better lab efficiency, productivity, and traceability with a more affordable LIMS that allows you to do more, with less.
Discover QM Essentials—a cost-effective LIMS with less complexity.
Are you a manufacturer? Support your full product lifecycle—From R&D through to commercialization— with the STARLIMS’ R&D and Quality Manufacturing Informatics Platform, the only truly complete platform that delivers a holistic view of laboratory operations, from start to finish.
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Resources
Simplifying Compliance Without Chaos: Why Chemical Manufacturers Need a LIMS
Three Ways STARLIMS Can Help the Pharmaceutical Industry Achieve a Lower Carbon Footprint
How STARLIMS Can Help Pharma Companies Maximize Lab Cost Savings
The Public Health Informatics Platform Solution Brief
Public health officials depend on their labs’ abilities to not only monitor and track possible pandemics and epidemics, but to also determine causative effects whenever they occur. To do so, public health laboratories need the most secure, comprehensive, and compliant systems possible to keep agencies ahead of health risks and protect populations around the globe.
What’s New with Life Sciences for Public Health (LPH) 1.1
We’re excited to share the next phase in our multi-year roadmap – LPH 1.1!
G2 Winter 2025: STARLIMS Excels in LIMS and Beyond
STARLIMS is recognized for excellence in Lab Informatics, according to customer reviews on G2.