ChemSW Announces ControlChartPro Live(TM), a Comprehensive Hosted Version of their Popular ControlChartPro

ChemSW, Inc. is proud to announce the availability of ControlChartPro Live, a new on-demand, hosted version of their best-selling, best-of-breed ControlChartPro(R) solution. Designed to quickly and easily generate analytical control charts for laboratory quality control programs, the on-demand solution enables a low cost of entry, zero installation, and more accessible data. Now, chemists and QA Professionals can spend less time tinkering with software and more time doing research that supports corporate goals.

“It provides a super fast and simple way to generate, for instance, X-bar charts for control sample data from periodic runs, automatically, with real-time calculations, and no requirement for a long non-productive learning curve,” states David Hessler, Vice President of ChemSW. “You can easily import and export Excel data, organize different testing data into user-defined projects, reset chart scaling factors, and override the population statistics. Any way you want to look at the data, you can.”

“There are various types of scientific charting tools out there,” he continues. “ControlChartPro Live falls into the easy to use category, but doesn’t relinquish the tools you’d expect to find in a quality control charting program. You can quite literally type three numbers and ControlChartPro Live will render a chart.”

ControlChartPro Live is the newest application in the family of web-delivered vertical offerings from ChemSW. Based on their popular, easy to use scientific control charting program, ControlChartPro Live has been completely redesigned using Web 2.0 tools to deliver an array of new functionality. One of the most important changes, ControlChartPro Live is now based on leading-edge database technology, allowing researchers to organize data by projects and data sets for better data management.

The features which made the original ControlChartPro so popular — such as an intuitive spreadsheet-style interface for automatic generation of statistics and charts, a range of flexible dataset types, and default factors that automatically calculate standard deviations and plot the data based on any user-defined parameter — have been modernized and made available over the web.

One of the most important enhancements now allows users to define who can use and edit the data. Like the previous standard, ControlChartPro Live performs import and export functions easily, but users can now create PDFs so that data can be reviewed without opening the application or compromising data security.

According to Hessler, ControlChartPro Live uses the Google Docs metaphor in that users can access the software from any computer with a browser, create and share work online, upload work from and save to the desktop, and edit data any where, any time, as well as select who can access the documents and share changes in real-time.

As a web-delivered Software as a Service (SAAS) solution, ControlChartPro Live enables labs to replace large upfront fees and costs with periodic payments, thus enabling expenditures to be shifted from fixed costs to variable costs and thereby optimize budget management.

“Taking advantage of the Internet to access software on demand frees the organization from all kinds of overhead costs as well as time-consuming activities associated with installing and troubleshooting software,” explains Hessler. “A SaaS solution like ControlChartPro Live doesn’t have up-front capital costs, licensing, support costs, maintenance agreements, etc. All those costs just disappear and the organization can focus on using the software rather than making it work.”

“Quality Control labs really start to benefit when they can leverage hosted products like ControlChartPro Live which are based on tried and proven products that are already being used by thousands of satisfied analysts,” he adds.

Seamless upgrades to new features and functionality, customer support, and other operational services are all included instead of being treated as incremental costs. Application improvements are literally made overnight during off-hours, resulting in minimal service disruption.

About ChemSW

Founded over a decade ago, ChemSW is a leading provider of chemical and biochemical inventory management systems, MSDS systems and other chemistry laboratory software and services. ChemSW’s wide range of products streamline laboratory processes and reduce chemical purchasing and disposal costs. ChemSW supports over 15,000 customers in more than 40 countries throughout the world.

If you would like more information on this exciting new product please feel free to contact us at info@chemsw.com or call us at 707-864-0845.

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