Breakthrough user interface heralds new generation of low cost LIMS
August 2010 – Breakthrough user interface heralds new generation of low cost LIMS
A new breed of Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), which features a breakthrough user interface, is being launched by London-based start-up company, Two Fold Software Limited. The easy-to-use Qualoupe LIMS solution greatly simplifies LIMS use while very significantly lowering running costs.
Offering major productivity gains, improved quality management and reporting flexibility, Qualoupe features an intuitive, configurable user interface designed to enhance the user experience and revolutionise work flow.
A powerful, versatile laboratory tool, Qualoupe delivers the information the user really needs while distancing them from having to understand or see the underlying LIMS data structures. The easy to install LIMS is “Quick to Go Live” which saves both time and money and minimises installation disruption.
The Web-based Qualoupe user customisable interface is principally icon-driven and features uncluttered screens using a Just Enough Information Model (JEIM) that requires minimal mouse clicks to operate. For most applications there are a maximum of four action buttons located in the same area of each screen to simplify user operation.
Qualoupe’s Self Learning Interface (SLI) monitors data that is commonly used by each user, facilitating faster selection of records, which coupled with native data queries, offers very powerful ad hoc real time information access in support of decision making.
The interface features microformats associated with fields that are capable of linking to other systems or services. Third party application access via the user interface can be readily implemented. Qualoupe can also be easily configured to be multilingual throughout.
Qualoupe offers full audit trails and helps to simplify compliance with UKAS, FDA, ISO 17025, MRC, GLP and GMP. The system’s software is optimised to share data across and between an organisation’s sites and supports both manual and automated data capture.
With a combined 141 man years of experience in designing and creating successful business applications, Two Fold Software’s development team’s product goal was to deliver a feature rich Web-based LIMS that provides a user experience that has never been seen before. Qualoupe’s configurable intuitive user interface has been expressly designed to remove the complexity of running a LIMS.
Companies such as Apple, HTC amongst others have redefined the smart phone user experience via their creative user interfaces now Two Fold is aiming to do likewise for the LIMS community. Qualoupe also significantly reduces the cost of using a fully featured scalable LIMS which means that even the smallest company can now afford the solution and benefit from increased productivity, improved quality and optimal use of resources.
Two Fold Software’s development team has used its own extensive LIMS experience to evaluate the market needs and rival LIMS products. Evaluation of end user feedback shows that above all else the user community want an easy to use and intuitive product. Two Fold’s analysis of the LIMS products currently on the market shows that they are all extremely complicated to operate and feature poor user interfaces. Qualoupe elegantly solves these user related issues. The design team’s philosophy is to create a LIMS interface that offers: “The User Experience you Want…. With the Information you Need….”
