IBM Relationship extends to Enterprise LIMS
Thermo Electron announced today that it has expanded its relationship with IBM to pursue co-operative business opportunities in the global LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) marketplace. Thermo and IBM will work together to create solutions that leverage Thermo’s LIMS expertise with IBM eServer™ system architecture.
An intensive cycle of system testing was recently performed on Nautilus and SampleManager LIMS running on an IBM eServer xSeries ® 235. Over 19,000 individual tests were performed using a combination of automated and manual scripts between April and June 2003. Thermo reports that the processing power and capacity of the IBM server, hosting the latest versions of both LIMS servers and databases, provided a smooth and highly efficient testing result. IBM hardware is now an integral part of Thermo’s LIMS testing environment, providing increased assurance of the resilience and quality of the Thermo/IBM integrated solution.
”The expansion of the companies’ relationship illustrates IBM’s recognition of Thermo’s strength in the enterprise LIMS marketplace, particularly in large scale global organizations”, comments Jim Neville, Director of Marketing and Business Development for the Informatics Division of Thermo Electron. “We are pleased to provide our mutual customers with an integrated technology solution that will help them to ease compliance pressures and improve productivity.”
Commenting on the new level of collaboration, Scott Jenkins, IBM’s Life Sciences Devices and Diagnostics Segment Executive, stated: “Our organizations share an equally strong commitment to serving the life and laboratory science community with innovative and practical solutions to their business problems. Thermo’s LIMS products and its domain expertise supported by IBM’s hardware architecture certainly represents a powerful combination.”
With an installed base of over 1,100 systems and around 45,000 daily users worldwide, Thermo’s SampleManager is one of the most established and industrially robust LIMS on the market. It is designed to support laboratory operations and integrate those operations into the corporate enterprise. Nautilus is Thermo’s latest LIMS product, focused on improving laboratory productivity and reducing the total cost of ownership of LIMS to customers. With radically reduced implementation times and unique Workflow technology minimizing the need for customization, Nautilus is delivering a return on investment to many customers in fields such as biotechnology, pharmaceutical R&D, and forensics. Nautilus offers advanced XML (eXtensible Markup Language) capabilities to provide integration advantages.
The new collaboration builds on an extensive relationship between Thermo and IBM to deliver joint solutions in such areas as data archiving, using Thermo’s eRecordManager ™ and IBM Tivoli ® Storage Manager, and processing proteomic data using Thermo’s SEQUEST ™ Cluster software and IBM’s eServer 1350 Linux Cluster.
