LabVantage ® Announces SafeData tm for Scientific Data Management Operational Archiving at Pittcon 2004 ®
LabVantage Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise LIMS and Life Sciences LIMS has announced the introduction of SafeData. SafeData is a secure and accessible scientific data management solution for the live data phase of a project. SafeData automates the storage of operational data in is native format, and maintains easy access to files during iterative analysis period with versioning to protect intellectual property. The targeted markets for SafeData are: pharmaceutical, biotechnology, research and science-based industries. LabVantage SafeData, is the scientific industry’s first completely automated solution for collecting, processing, storing, and retrieving raw analytical data. In environments where high levels of compliance to GLP/GMP regulations are required, LabVantage SafeData is a reliable, easy-to-administer, and secure method for archiving raw data within seconds of its creation or change. SafeData removes the reliance on individual scientists to move data from potentially unsafe instrument computers to secure locations – with no manual input required. SafeData breaks through the “my data” mentality that permeates through most research organizations. Developed with today’s analytical systems in mind, SafeData takes into account the complex file structures of data acquisition software, and the need for flexible laboratory control of the transfer process, within a compliant framework. SafeData tm has two main modules. The first module called Source Publisher is for system administration. The second module called Senior Editor , establishes overall approaches, rights, privileges, and standards to publish and access data for scientific community.
SafeData Market Background
For the past few years, many software suppliers have met the needs of companies looking to “archive” their data. In so doing, they ignored many of the simpler business pains that needed to be addressed. Effectively, they were focusing their attention on only one of the phases in the lifecycle of data. Today, more customers are viewing scientific data as having two distinct phases, with each phase requiring different types of solutions. Phase one addresses Operational Data Storage and Archiving. Phase two addresses Archiving and Data Retrieval .
Securing Raw Operational Data
The first category, securing raw operational data, emerged in 2003 as customers tried to simplify their technology environments. Solutions in this category focus on addressing the needs of the first phase in the data lifecycle – the operational phase – the most common environment for today’s researcher. Frost & Sullivan, a leading firm for industry analysis, confirms the importance of specifically addressing this ignored phase of data lifecycle management. Amith Viswanathan, Industry Manager- Healthcare & Life Sciences IT at Frost & Sullivan, recently stated, “Storage of raw data is an essential part of a total IT solution for pharma/biotech companies in today’s regulatory environment. The need for accessibility and integrity of raw data cannot be overstressed in the R&D environment. I believe that the market will indeed embrace, at the very least, a lockbox approach to graded, flat-file databases as they go through their transformations. Scientists will require a system that can effectively ‘freeze’ raw data files at their initiation, ensure regulatory compliance in those files, and save additional work from those at regular intervals while maintaining that compliance.”
Archiving and Retrieval Solutions
The second category, providing archiving and application-independent retrieval solutions, has gained market traction amongst some customers looking to find ways to “view” older data without having to have the native application present. This enterprise approach has many of the same elements experienced when implementing a new LIMS or an ERP solution. The recent FDA guideline changes have called into question the regulatory “value driver” of such an approach. Yes, there are collateral benefits, but they need to be quantified just like any other technology acquisition. Customers also have begun to be more concerned about “assigning” their data to proprietary formats for their long-term retrieval requirements.
Many scientific executives responsible for securing their data are asking questions such as; What problem are we really trying to solve? Do we really need to make this level of a technology investment, or is this over kill? One executive at a global pharmaceutical company recently offered a more illustrative statement, “I don’t need a sledge hammer to kill a fly. I need a fly swatter.” The FDA created a market opportunity in 1997 when it finalized 21 CFR Part 11, and now its recent revision is about to create the next opportunity to address the storage needs of operational project data.
SafeData Product Highlights
| · | Focused Operational Storage solution |
| · | Secure native file protection from source |
| · | Protect intellectual property during iterative analysis period with versioning |
| · | Rapidly access data for further analysis |
| · | Central or distributed administration for rapid deployment |
| · | Proven scalable 3-tier web architecture |
| · | Supports 21 CFR part 11 compliance requirements |
| · | Regularly scheduled web-based training classes |
| · | Rapid return on technology investment |
“SafeData helps simplify the complicated world of scientific data management with a scalable, proven software solution that solves specific problems in protecting intellectual property content during the operational phase of data manipulation and analysis,“ said Scott Deutsch, Vice President, Global Marketing, LabVantage Solutions, Inc. “SafeData provides customers with a rapid technology investment return, without lengthy and complex implementations.”
$5,000 SafeData Starter Kits Available
A SafeData Starter Kit with full product functionality is available for $5,000. The SafeData Starter Kit allows customers to utilize the complete capabilities available in SafeData and is easily upgraded to a full user license. SafeData is available directly from LabVantage and its authorized SafeData Business Partners. Complimentary one-hour web-based training classes are scheduled weekly to assist customers in optimally setting up SafeData.
Product Availability
SafeData is expected to begin shipping April 2004. SafeData began customer beta site testing in February 2004. For more information, please contact LabVantage in North America at 1-888-346-5467 or 1-908-707-4100; in EMEA at +44 1494 456 450; in Asia Pacific at 91 33 3573557.
About LabVantage Solutions
A leader in Enterprise LIMS and Life Sciences LIMS solutions, LabVantage Solutions, Inc. is a Chatterjee Management Group company, and an Advanced IBM Business Partner. LabVantage provides intelligent sample and experiment data management LIMS for traditional manufacturing QA/QC, pharmaceutical QC, genomics, proteomics, and high throughput screening and offers SafeData for operational archiving. The company also offers services that ensure customer success, such as industry and technology consulting, implementation services, application training, and extensive customer support services. Since 1981, LabVantage has implemented hundreds of laboratory information systems across a broad range of industries. Headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey, LabVantage also has offices in High Wycombe, UK, and Kolkata, India, as well as an extensive web of business partnerships and technology alliances. Further information about LabVantage and its products is available at www.labvantage.com .
Terry Hermann
Marketing Communications Manager
LabVantage Solutions, Inc.
(908) 333-0152
thermann@labvantage.com
www.labvantage.com
