Pharmaceutical companies need tools that can help improve internal communications, make critical decisions quickly, and accurately compile drug research progress reports. While achieving the above aspects, the company must also achieve maximum return on investment, shorten the pipeline life cycle and cut costs. The challenge is to successfully optimize and consolidate the data flow so that management can get the information it needs and make timely decisions. As the amount of data generated in the organization increases, the cost of delaying the implementation of next-generation data management tools has made pharmaceutical companies unbearable. The first step in the solution is to use a specially designed enterprise-wide Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). A variety of different systems with low integration or even no integration work methods are out of date.
General LIMS
Historically, the industry-standard LIMS provides a special feature that can only meet 30-40% of the specific needs of each user, and must be heavily customized to ensure that LIMS plays a role in this specific configuration. This custom service typically only uses proprietary programming languages ​​developed and provided by the LIMS vendor. However, in this combination, there are few functions specific to the industry, and proprietary programming languages ​​are often outdated and/or costly, which is particularly troublesome to apply in the pharmaceutical industry. In addition, pharmaceutical labs create their own user documents, design documents, validation scripts, and help files under normal conditions. Therefore, without exception, implementing LIMS in different lab settings has been a long, expensive and painstaking process for many years, not only during the installation process, but also during operation and maintenance.
The requirements of global regulations and long-term data traceability are increasing, coupled with the complexity of laboratory testing, the importance of batch and sample comparison management, and drug manufacturers have to deal with general LIMS in order to meet their specific needs. Long-term, cost-effective transformation. The wide range of customization, verification, and implementation costs are high, and in many cases the duration lasts for 36 months or more, causing a drop in productivity. However, due to the increasing cost of new drug launches, drug manufacturers will not be able to afford the current cost if they continue to delay the use of next-generation tools that increase productivity.
Business challenge
Since the drug development time is about 15 years, the follow-up cost before 2010 is close to $2 billion, and pharmaceutical companies are more eager to help them continue to realize the return on investment during the drug patent period. Enterprise-wide LIMS is the mainstay of this work. The sophisticated LIMS is designed to deliver advanced functionality for every stage of the drug development process, streamline each process, help reduce costs, and provide a unique, holistic solution for organizations. The specially designed LIMS provides a variety of outstanding features for real-time analysis and reporting, compliance with regulations, improved product quality, and a wider network within the company for secure access to critical data throughout the organization. Â
Specially designed LIMS
The specially designed LIMS is specifically tailored to the needs of the pharmaceutical application software industry. Frost & Sullivan's 2008 US Laboratory Information Management System Market Strategy Analysis Report shows that using pre-configured industry-specific test methods will facilitate the company's presence in all markets. increase. Because this new core product includes more powerful features, less risk, lower costs, and less time spent implementing, validating, and supporting services for applications. The specially designed LIMS solution aims to achieve as many domain-specific features as possible to meet the critical needs of the lab, enabling ever-increasing enterprise-wide data access for multi-address/multi-user organizations. In the same report, Frost & Sullivan pointed out that LIMS solution providers' market growth metrics focus on not only providing customers with a specially designed LIMS that fully integrates other laboratory equipment, but also providing easy collaboration with global enterprise solutions. Working LIMS.
Promote data management with enterprise-wide LIMS
Consistent strategy integration from laboratory information management systems (LIMS), chromatographic data systems (CDS), enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing enterprise systems (MES), electronic lab notebooks (ELN), and other sources within the enterprise The data is the main factor driving business growth. Modern LIMS is used as a common platform framework to plug in other information management solutions, instruments, enterprise systems, and enterprise communication tools to share common functionality without having to rebuild common functionality for each product.
to sum up
Seamless integration across the enterprise is imperative, and the only way to manage critical knowledge from the lab in real time. Integrating enterprise systems will facilitate the effectiveness of planning, data quality, collaboration, and peer-to-peer reporting, all of which are focused on providing management with a tabular view of key business metrics so that management can be before any crisis Instead of getting critical data later, it is critical to the effective operation of the business.
Pharmaceutical companies are constantly exploring ways to reduce costs, shorten product cycles from project to market, meet increasing regulatory requirements, and the field of laboratory information management is shifting to meet the needs of pharmaceutical companies. LIMS can help pharmaceutical companies more confidently address the many challenges that are unpredictable but often determine the survival of the company. In today's business environment, pharmaceutical companies have to respond in real time to protect the public and protect the environment, so enterprise-wide integration is particularly relevant to the current situation. LIMS helps communicate key business knowledge from the lab to all levels of the business.
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About the Author
David S. Payne, Vice President and General Manager, Information Management Systems, Thermo Fisher Scientific Laboratory
David S. Payne joined Thermo Fisher Scientific in April 2003 as Global Service Director of the Information Management Department and later to Commercial Director of Information Management and Services. In April 2005, he was appointed as Thermo Fisher. Shier Technology's vice president and general manager of information management business. David graduated from the University of Massachusetts and Bryant University with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Business Administration degree. He has since worked in enterprise software development companies. Prior to joining Thermo Fisher Scientific, he served as Chief Executive Officer of two early software companies and spent 13 years at Lotus Development Corporation. He was the President and Chief Executive Officer of UPSPRING Software, Inc., a software development tool provider acquired by MKS Corporation; later served as Chief Executive Officer of ProActivity Software, Inc., a business process analysis solution Early business. Lotus Development Co., Ltd. was acquired by IBM during its tenure with David, a global support and service organization with more than 1,200 professional service staff under the leadership of David, serving customers in more than 80 countries.
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