DCSS Announces the Formation of LabAnswer to Provide World-Class Laboratory Informatics Solutions

The formation of a subsidiary will facilitate the refinement of business processes to better address the needs of laboratory niche clients, employees and partners. The DCSS Board of Directors and management team decided that the name change would be a better reflection of the laboratory services offered by this focused consultancy.

 

LabAnswer will be comprised of the same group of experienced specialists and managers that have made it a success in the past. It is one of the largest independent Laboratory Informatics consulting providers in North America.

 

About LabAnswer

LabAnswer is a laboratory informatics consultancy that has the people, processes and experience to scale and deliver enterprise informatics projects. Solutions can include single site implementations, global deployments and complete informatics outsourcing. The LabAnswer team of consultants, each averaging over ten years of experience, has a rare combination of laboratory science, IT, business and regulatory expertise.

 

LabAnswer provides laboratory informatics services including outsourcing, deployment, installation, integration, migration, support and validation of the following systems:

 

  • Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
  • Chromatography Data Systems (CDS)
  • Laboratory Instruments
  • Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN)
  • Data Archival or Scientific Data Management Systems (SDMS)
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
  • Laboratory Knowledge Management Systems

LabAnswer/DCSS has helped nine of the ten largest pharmaceutical companies configure or customize their laboratory systems. With one of the largest teams of informatics consultants in the nation, the group has worked in over three hundred laboratories assisting over fifty clients.

 

LabAnswer automates the client’s laboratory environment with independent project office oversight and adherence to well honed methodologies. LabAnswer holds a Level 3 rating within the Capability Maturity Model (CMM-SW).  www.labanswer.com

 

About Digital Consulting Software & Services

Digital Consulting & Software Services Inc. (DCSS) is an information technology company that provides networking and infrastructure consulting, enterprise hardware and storage, custom software design and development, enterprise content management, business intelligence, laboratory informatics, infrastructure support and outsourcing. Industry expertise includes manufacturing, retail, energy, communications, government, and laboratory informatics.

 

The company has been ranked as one of Houston’s Top 50 Woman-Owned Businesses and Top 25 Software Development Companies and was the 2002 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for IT. The firm is based in Houston, TX with offices in New Orleans and Atlanta. For more information, visit www.dcss.com .