Per-Seat Pricing vs Unlimited Users: The Hidden Cost of ELN Adoption
Most decisions about an electronic lab notebook eventually arrive at a meeting nobody enjoys: the one where a lab works out who actually gets a license. The PI, obviously. The senior postdocs, yes. The two staff scientists, fine. Then the list gets harder. The rotating graduate students who cycle through every few months. The undergraduate who runs assays two afternoons a week. The visiting researcher here for a semester. The collaborator at another institution who needs to see three experiments and nothing else. Each of those names carries a price, so each one becomes a judgment call.
That meeting is the hidden cost of per-seat ELN pricing, and it has very little to do with the number on the invoice.
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