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March 4, 2009
•Article: Enterprise Level LIMS – An Executive Perspective
By Thermo Scientific Brand Products, Part of Thermo Fisher
Dave Champagne, vice president and general manager of Thermo Fisher Scientific's Informatics business, talks about the need for full integration of enterprise level laboratory information management systems in the pharmaceutical industry.
With an investment of nearly 15 years and costs of bringing a new drug to market approaching $2B by 2010, pharmaceutical companies are increasingly in search of processes that can help them consistently deliver a return on investment during the patent life of a drug. One of the ways this can be achieved is by investing in enterprise level laboratory information systems (LIMS) that deliver the very specific functionality required for each stage of the drug development process, thereby streamlining processes and costs and enabling the organization to take full advantage of the integration opportunities presented by these sophisticated, purpose-built LIMS. Today's LIMS yield real-time analysis and reports, monitor regulatory compliance and product quality, integrate with a company's broader network, provide secure access to data throughout the organization and offer much more functionality than merely storing and retrieving results.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has taken the strategic position of building LIMS that meet the needs of our customers, and we understand that customers' needs will vary by the industry they're in and also by the part of the laboratory or environment they are responsible for. This is particularly true for the pharmaceutical industry, where the laboratory needs are unique in research and development, discovery, and manufacturing. No one system can answer the needs of these very distinct laboratories so our position has been to develop, with the help of our customers, purposebuilt LIMS for each area of the pharmaceutical value chain.
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