Moving From Spreadsheets and Access to Your First LIMS Without Shutting Down the Lab
Most labs we talk to are not replacing one LIMS with another. They are running on spreadsheets, paper logs, and often a Microsoft Access database that one person built years ago and that nobody else fully understands. That setup is usually not a sign of a lab that fell behind. It is a sign of a lab that solved a real problem with the tools it had, and kept solving it, until the lab outgrew the solution.
By the time most labs reach that point, they already know they need a laboratory information management system (LIMS). The question stopping them is not whether to move. It is how to move without stopping the lab in the process.
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