LIMS vs ELN: Converged on Features, Not on the Unit of Work
LIMS and ELN converged on almost every feature and stayed separate on the one thing that decides fit: whether the unit of work is a sample or an experiment. Buying on the feature list is how laboratories end up owning the wrong one.
The feature grids really are nearly identical. The data model underneath is not, and it surfaces the first time somebody asks a question the model cannot answer. This covers what each is built around, where the laboratory execution system sits between them, what a decade of adoption evidence actually shows, which industries get the most from a notebook, and how to read a product that claims to be both.
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