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For example, how do you get your balance to talk to your network? Ask it to weigh in? Or your pH meter? Ask it for basic information? If only it were that easy.

To make the digital dream a reality, a new paradigm is needed – a platform that creates workflows on the fly by connecting the constellation of:

• Lab equipment, such as balances and pH meters
• Instruments, like chromatographs, spectrophotometers, and plate readers
• Software, including data acquisition and reporting systems, LIMS, and electronic lab notebooks

Because labs have purchased products from different manufacturers over time, this architecture also must be vendor-agnostic regarding communication protocols, and file formats. It must seamlessly integrate everything so scientists can translate data from these different sources into knowledge that enables them to make better, faster, more informed decisions to meet their objectives.

You may think this is a nearly impossible set of criteria to meet. These obstacles were insurmountable in the past. But today, those hurdles of the past are being eliminated — Scitara is making sure of that! Scitara’s mantra is “No instrument or application left behind. We haven’t encountered an instrument or application that couldn’t be quickly added to our digital backbone and we don’t think we ever will, says Geoff Gerhardt, Chief Technology Officer for Scitara.”

Scitara was founded with the singular goal of providing products and services that help labs implement a truly cohesive, comprehensive, and secure digital ecosystem. Their Scientific Integration Platform SIP, with its Digital Lab Exchange DLX engine, breaks down entrenched data silos by connecting, orchestrating, and monitoring every piece of hardware on your benches – even those that do not have a communication port – and software that resides on your computers, servers, or the cloud.

Scitara DLX was developed by scientists like you who understand your needs. “We knew it had to be flexible and scalable so it can grow as your needs evolve, says Gerhardt. We knew it had to work with your existing systems and be easy to deploy and configure. And we knew it had to ensure accurate, properly structured data models that could be used to feed artificial intelligence and machine learning systems.”

Scitara’s innovative solution to the lab connectivity challenge will enable your lab with:

• Increased efficiency and productivity
• Simplified workflows with dashboards for easy monitoring
• 360-degree view of the lab at any time for real-time monitoring of system and workflow status to optimize uptime
• Reduced risk with enhanced data integrity and full audit trails

Scitara’s solutions are powering the digital transformation of scientific laboratories. By enabling them with modern lab data connectivity infrastructure and tools to accelerate science, the integration of existing and new instruments and application into the lab ecosystem has been greatly simplified, eliminating downtime and significantly reducing operational costs.

Why It Matters to You:

Scitara’s solutions are powering the digital transformation of scientific laboratories by enabling them with modern lab data connectivity infrastructure and tools to accelerate science. Their Scientific Integration Platform SIP solves the lab connectivity challenge by enabling your lab with:

• Increased efficiency and productivity
• Simplified integration of existing and new instruments and applications onto the existing lab architecture (e.g., LIMS)
• Streamlined workflows with dashboards for easy monitoring
• 360-degree view of the lab at any time for real-time monitoring of system and workflow status to optimize uptime
• Reduced risk with enhanced data integrity and full audit trails
• Decreased total cost of ownership

About Astrix and Scitara:

Astrix in partnership with Scitara offers innovative solutions for all of your laboratory informatics needs, enabling the lab of the future. Before you take the next step in your digital journey, explore how Astrix in partnership with Scitara are transforming the way science-based business succeed today by visiting astrixinc.com.

Scitara is a global provider of cloud-based, industry-specific platforms and solutions for the life sciences industry. Based in Massachusetts, the Scitara leadership brings decades of experience in solving digital challenges for the scientific laboratory: Meet the Modern Lab. For more information, please visit scitara.com.

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Data integrity must be maintained over its entire life-cycle and is an important aspect in the design, implementation and usage of any system that stores, processes or retrieves data. The overall objective is to ensure that data is recorded as intended, preserved, and remains intact throughout the process, preventing unintentional changes to the information as it was originally recorded. When the integrity of data is secure, the information stored in a database will remain complete, accurate, and reliable regardless of how long it’s stored or how often it’s accessed.

Whenever data is replicated or transferred, the opportunity exists for data integrity to be compromised. Error checking protocols and validation procedures are typically utilized to ensure the integrity of data that is transferred or reproduced to verify that it remained intact and unaltered throughout the process. But what about data ‘in flight’? With digital transformation being a key initiative in nearly all scientific laboratories today, maintaining data integrity for data in flight is quickly becoming an area of focus for regulatory compliance measures.

Event Stream Monitoring and Digital Compliance

The development and widespread use of novel biological therapeutics and vaccines is emerging as the new standard for precision medicine and the treatment or prevention of disease. With the mainstream production of biotherapeutics, it is imperative to establish a well-defined regulatory framework throughout the biopharmaceutical development life cycle. The traditional scientific laboratory has implemented a wide range of rules and processes that govern how data is entered, stored, transferred and validated. With the current drive towards biological based processes, the automation of workflows, and the need for immediate access to real time data, the issue of data integrity for data in flight is rapidly emerging as a top area of concern surrounding regulatory compliance.

To facilitate data integrity, a digital trail must be captured and documented throughout the entire data stream. Within the biological development platform in particular, there are numerous stages of the process that necessitate interim intervention or decision points that require accessing and possibly “re-shaping” data or events in flight. Legacy or not ‘fit-for-purpose’ informatics enterprises often do not have the underlying system architecture for efficiently tracking the resulting data changes..

The Scitara Digital Lab Exchange (DLX) cloud platform brings this process into the 21st century, addressing the unique needs of the biopharmaceutical laboratory. From cell line development through upstream and downstream processing, Scitara’s DLX event driven Orchestrations maximize process integration, automation, and workflow efficiencies. Data in flight between instruments, applications or repositories are managed by Scitara DLX Orchestrations and become part of the event stream.

Connecting to streaming data systems as well as traditional analytical systems to apply calculations and logic for data in flight is now possible with Scitara DLX. This innovative platform allows you to create automated workflows that have gates for review and critical stage decision points while the data is on its way to its ultimate destination. All of this transactional information that flows through the system is captured and can be reconstructed at any time, providing a strong regulatory and data integrity position for data in flight.

Scitara DLX Orchestration and Event Stream Monitoring allows you to:

• Construct event driven lab workflows and multi-destination data flows
• Configure event driven data exchange between any connections
• Enable event driven notifications informing you of steps needing review or action by the lab team
• Connect to and interact with streaming data systems and non PC based instruments
• Add notes and a picture or video of the activity throughout the workflow
• Apply business logic and processing for data in flight
• Capture a complete digital transactional record in the Scitara DLX Event Stream that can be reconstructed as needed

Scitara DLX Orchestrated activities are tracked and logged in the Scitara DLX Event Stream, establishing a clear chain of custody as data is moved, merged or transformed. Data aggregation support is provided throughout the entire bioprocess. This allows reconstruction of complete workflows weeks, months or years after the fact and extends support for GxP compliant processes to data in flight.

Conclusion

The digital landscape of the biopharmaceutical laboratory is changing dramatically with the introduction of new technologies, applications and advanced AI/ML solutions. The resulting increasing complexity of data and regulatory compliance requirements challenges the status quo of workflow automation, data management and data integrity standards.

Digital transformation initiatives are bringing together siloed and disparate systems, allowing for the seamless connectivity of instrumentation and data, enabling workflow automation. The need for real time process interaction and monitoring in the biopharmaceutical laboratory presents unique challenges within the automation workflow. Innovative technologies such as the Scitara DLX platform provides the necessary tools and technology to enable this level of interaction with in-flight data.

“By providing, for the first time, a cloud-native platform for seamless data access and connectivity and easily configurable routine and complex workflows in a scientific laboratory, scientists can not only free up more time for science, but also leverage AI/ML techniques, data analytics, and decision-making tools, to more effectively develop life-saving therapies, novel biologics and vaccines.” – Ajit Nagral, CEO of Scitara.

Success in laboratory informatics projects can be difficult to achieve largely due to the complex processes and technologies utilized in laboratories, and the many different aspects of the workflow across the enterprise. With over 25 years of experience in laboratory informatics professional services, Astrix is uniquely positioned to drive the success of your digital transformation project and solve challenges in your lab.

Why It Matters for You

Combining the benefits of modern cloud-based architecture with a vendor-neutral peer-to-peer platform with robust security, compliance, and laboratory-specific functionality provides unprecedented insights into laboratory and scientific operations. Scitara DLX’s monitoring system further ensures every data transaction in the lab is captured, creating a trusted digital trail available for further analysis and decision making.

• Implementing Scitara Digital Lab Exchange (DLX) platform within your informatics enterprise will allow you to connect to streaming data systems to apply calculations and logic for data in flight while capturing that information in an audit trail.
• Eliminating manual transcription steps establishes an auditable chain of custody for simple instrument outputs through the use of Scitara DLX IoT enabled Orchestrations.
• Creating automated workflows through Scitara DLX provides secure in-process review gates and critical stage decision points while the data is on its way to its ultimate destination.
• Capturing transactional information that is flowing through the system allows it to be reconstructed at any time, providing a very strong regulatory and data integrity position.

About Astrix

Astrix partners with many of the industry leaders in the informatics space to offer state of the art solutions for all of your laboratory informatics needs.  With over 25 years of industry proven experience, Astrix has the informatics specialists and business process analysis tools required to develop and implement the solution that works best for your enterprise. Our domain experts have helped hundreds of companies globally effectively navigate their digital transformation journey, connecting people, processes and systems to accelerate the advancement of science and medicine.

References

¹Data Integrity and Compliance With Drug CGMP – Guidance for Industry, December 2018, www.fda.gov, accessed Mar 19, 2021.

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Businesses are gaining significant competitive advantages through digital transformation, however, the Life Science industry has yet to realize the true benefits of developing a digital strategy across the laboratory enterprise. There is a clear need to speed up access to data, improve throughput and accelerate time to market, but the path leading to the solution is unclear. While there is a general consensus in the Life Sciences industry as to ‘why’ digital transformation is necessary, it is not well understood ‘how’ to go about this task. With proprietary business models, lab instrumentation and applications do not ‘talk’ to each other. This lack of data connectivity poses an enormous challenge to digital transformation initiatives within the industry. Current point-to-point, vendor-specific connections are expensive, difficult to maintain, and trap data in silos, thereby slowing the pace of science.

Instrument and application vendors are equally burdened by significant investments in legacy systems, impeding the adoption of cloud technologies in scientific laboratories. New vendors find the complexity of combining scientific, technology, and regulatory expertise, coupled with the indispensable task of pulling the laboratory ecosystem together, daunting. Certain vendors have integrations between systems that they consider to be strategically important but there is no holistic approach to exchanging data within the laboratory. This absence of digital connectivity throughout the entire workflow results in segmentation and data silos, making the efficient exchange of data and information an impossible task.

Creating a Platform Holistic Communications Channel

Changing this traditional approach to laboratory resource integration from a complex point-to-point implementation to a peer-to-peer enterprise will dramatically transform data connectivity within the Life Sciences laboratory. Scitara, an innovative global provider of cloud-based software solutions for science based industries, is powering the digital transformation of scientific laboratories by enabling them with modern lab data connectivity infrastructure and tools to accelerate science. Scitara’s Digital Lab Exchange (DLX) platform allows plug-and-play connectivity between any device, instrument, application, informatics system, web service or lab resource. Though the use of their novel connector technology and IoT interface, the automation of workflows, task notifications, and bi-directional compliant data exchange speeds the accessibility and sharing of lab data across the enterprise.

Scitara’s DLX platform provides a holistic communications channel that establishes a peer-to-peer network enabling immediate access to all of the instruments and resources within the laboratory.  It simplifies the way connectivity is handled over time. Their ‘no instrument left behind’ approach allows you to easily add new instruments, change workflows with the changing dynamics of your business.

Maximizing Productivity through Event Driven Workflows

A connection platform that allows you to react very quickly and efficiently to onboarding new connections provides the foundation necessary for automating data exchange between instruments and applications across the enterprise. Event driven workflows can be applied using business rules to orchestrate where the data needs to go and trigger the cascade of activities that surround those transactions.

Examples of event driven lab workflows:

• Submission of a request for analysis from a LIMS or ELN
• Creation of a sample queue in an HPLC system
• Collection of sample weights from a balance
• Notification of a user group that a request is pending
• Performing calculations and logic for data in flight
• Bringing manual readings into the digital workflow via QR code or secure IoT device
• Setting up review gates in an automated workflow
• Monitoring the digital data that is flowing through the system

There is a whole diversity of instruments, applications and services that are being added to the laboratory workflow all the time. This is one area of real benefit in a digital transformation strategy to have a technology in place like the Scitara DLX platform that has the flexibility to respond to those changes and can very quickly add in new devices as changes occur in the laboratory ecosystem.

Orchestrating a Workflow Mapping Strategy

To gain the full benefit of a digital transformation initiative within the laboratory, it is necessary to eliminate manual processes and siloed systems throughout the entire workflow. Each unresolved step in the workflow that requires manual intervention represents a rate liming, inefficient roadblock in your digital pathway.

Having established a platform to effectively manage the endpoint connections throughout the laboratory, bringing those endpoints together unlocks the power of total workflow automation. The Scitara DLX Orchestration Engine utilizes API based connections to achieve the multi-point orchestration of events that constitute individual or interconnected laboratory processes.

Scitara Orchestration Technology Connector Interfaces

     Simple device connectors

• Support for virtually any non-PC based device (e.g., balances & pH meters) that has a documented serial or Bluetooth API connection, using our unique and secure IoT device.

     Instrument application connectors

• Support for virtually any PC based instrument that requires or allows data exchange via flat files

     Informatics system connectors

• Support for LIMS, ELN, and other Enterprise Informatics systems

     Web service connectors

• Business cloud applications – Office 365, Google Apps, Box, Dropbox…

The scope of connection technology available within the Scitara DLX platform supports any combination of workflow orchestration required for the automation of most laboratory processes. In addition, JavaScript is built into the orchestrating engine itself to enable the customization of script for more sophisticated activities.

The diagram below outlines an example process for orchestrating a LIMS or ELN request for sample weights and a chromatographic analysis in the Scitara DLX system. While Empower is listed as HPLC software example, this workflow can be deployed for virtually any HPLC software application.

The Scitara Orchestration connection technology allows for simple, end user task automation without the need for advanced programming techniques. However, success in laboratory informatics projects can be difficult to achieve largely due to the complex processes and technologies utilized in laboratories, and the many different aspects of the workflow across the enterprise. Mapping a process workflow not only takes into account the connectivity between laboratory resources and the capture of data output. It starts with the digital transformation strategy itself. Mapping out the ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ laboratory informatics roadmap, evaluation of current and legacy technology, data architecture,  and regulatory compliance requirements, just to name a few, are critical components within any digital strategy. Selecting the best-in-class technology along with a knowledgeable, industry-proven informatics partner to assist you on your digital transformation journey will ensure the success of your laboratory informatics project.

Conclusion

The broad diversity of lab instruments, software and web services creates a challenge to manage workflows and digital data that involve multiple vendors and applications, some of which are not PC based. For this reason, most Life Science laboratories have not executed a successful digital transformation, resulting in decreased productivity and ultimately limiting time to market.

Scitara’s DLX pioneering connector technology removes the barriers to total workflow automation. Their peer-to-peer platform strategy speeds the process of integrating laboratory resources while enabling data exchange and workflow orchestration across the entire enterprise. Multi-point orchestrations allow for the seamless connection to a wide variety of instrumentation, different types of data, and the ability to connect with that data and reroute it to its target destination to accelerate results driven science.

At Astrix, we believe that if you are going to invest the time and resources into a digital transformation initiative, it is important to ensure success by applying a proven methodology. Our focus is on solving the challenges experienced by scientific organizations through a Value Engineering approach. The Astrix Approach is a comprehensive, methodical and flexible framework which is designed to ensure your laboratory informatics project is a success and maximizes business value for your organization.

The Astrix Approach encompasses:

• Business Process Analysis
• Enterprise Architecture and Roadmapping
• System Development, Implementation and Integration
• Computer System Validation
• Astrix 360 Degree Production Run Support
• Scientific and Technical Outsourced Service Solutions

With over 25 years of experience in laboratory informatics professional services, Astrix is uniquely positioned to drive the success of your digital transformation project and solve challenges in your lab.

Why It Matters for You

To gain the full benefit of a digital transformation it is necessary to eliminate manual processes and siloed systems throughout the entire laboratory workflow. The lack of data connectivity often seen in the Life Sciences industry poses an enormous challenge to digital transformation initiatives. Current point-to-point, vendor-specific connections are expensive, difficult to maintain, and trap data in silos, thereby slowing the pace of science.

• Implementing the Scitara DLX connection platform will allow you to react very quickly and efficiently to onboarding new connections, providing the foundation necessary for automating data exchange between instruments and applications across the enterprise.
• Utilizing innovative technology based upon peer-to-peer connectivity will “Future-Proof” your laboratory through the ability to easily add new technology, swap out instruments and change workflows as your business evolves.
• Establishing event driven workflows will maximize productivity within the Life Sciences laboratory through full workflow automation and orchestration of in-flight data, while incorporating IoT technology for data exchange, process monitoring and user community notifications.

Selecting the best-in-class technology along with a knowledgeable, industry-proven informatics partner to assist you on your digital transformation journey will ensure the success of your laboratory informatics project.

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In the biopharmaceutical industry, nearly every scientific innovation is facilitated by the collection and analysis of data. Technological advancements such as Next-Gen sequencing, precision medicine, digital imaging, DoE and dynamic modeling to support process development have vastly increased the complexity of data management. Bioinformatics, an interdisciplinary field of science that combines biological data with techniques for information storage, distribution, analysis and data modeling to improve our understanding of biological processes, has therefore emerged as a critical factor in the development of a cohesive informatics strategy for the biopharmaceutical laboratory.

Biopharmaceutical Life Cycle Management

In the fast-paced world of bioprocessing, outdated and legacy systems are not able to keep up with increasing demands and advancing technology. Digital connectivity across the entire process workflow is a necessity for keeping pace and remaining competitive in the industry. Adaptive enterprise architectures and agile connectivity to laboratory instrumentation and applications can provide a strong foundation for Biopharmaceutical Life Cycle Management.

While digital transformation has emerged as one of the highest priority initiatives in the scientific industry as a whole, the development of software tools designed to address the specific needs of the biopharmaceutical company have significantly lagged behind. Processes utilizing single-use bioreactor technology and continuous manufacturing have also presented significant hurdles for digital transformation efforts within the biopharmaceutical industry. The seamless integration of workflows, laboratory equipment and contextualized data across the biopharmaceutical lifecycle has been one of the major challenges preventing operational efficiency.

Innovative Solutions for Accelerating Biopharmaceutical Development

Now more than ever, eliminating these roadblocks is imperative for reducing the time to market and the overall cost of developing biological therapies and vaccines. Two companies with cutting edge technologies have now joined forces to provide a novel solution for effectively addressing these challenges within the biopharmaceutical laboratory. IDBS, a leading innovator in Biopharmaceutical Lifecycle Management (BPLM), and Scitara, a pioneer in laboratory IoT, have entered into a strategic partnership to create a combined solution that will significantly extend IDBS Polar BPLM’s laboratory data connectivity and instrument integration capabilities. This integrated solution augments the Polar workflow capabilities by addressing the challenge of sharing and digitalizing laboratory data across the biopharmaceutical lifecycle, while ensuring data integrity and supporting insight.

Scitara’s advanced tools for sophisticated workflow automation are powering the digital transformation of scientific laboratories by enabling them with modern lab data connectivity infrastructure and solutions to accelerate biopharmaceutical development.​ The Scitara Digital Laboratory Exchange (DLX) cloud platform revolutionizes data connectivity by combining the benefits of modern cloud-based architecture, with vendor-agnostic, secure, regulatory compliant, laboratory-specific functionality​. Their universal connection technology provides the conduit for constructing multi-destination data flows and configuring event-driven data exchange between multiple connections, including legacy devices, instruments and applications.

The benefits of this synchronized solution include:

• Enables sharing and digitalizing laboratory data across the biopharmaceutical lifecycle
• Removes risky and inefficient manual processes
• Delivers high quality contextualized data to support informed decision making
• Reduces the time and complexity of implementations via plug and play integration with instruments, applications and enterprise platforms
• Ensures data integrity and facilitates regulatory compliance through secure data communication and exchange infrastructure

Conclusion:

Biopharmaceuticals are swiftly becoming the new frontier of medicine. Time to market and reduced cost of development are of critical importance in the quest to bring these innovative therapies quickly to market. Not only are these drivers crucial for the biopharmaceutical company to remain competitive, in the case of the current COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative to saving lives.

Effectively managing the biopharmaceutical life cycle requires digitally transforming the entire developmental workflow through the elimination of data silos and manual processes. Once digital connectivity is achieved, data accessibility and data integrity is facilitated through the application and integration of multiple innovative informatics solutions. Best in class informatics tools such as the Scitara DLX platform in concert with the IDBS Polar BPLM platform are specifically designed to address the unique operational and technical challenges of the biopharmaceutical laboratory. The seamless integration of these workflows, instrumentation and data provides the foundation needed to efficiently manage the biopharmaceutical lifecycle, ultimately reducing the overall time and cost of developing these novel therapies.

Why it Matters for You

The biopharmaceutical industry is poised to revolutionize the future of healthcare. Challenges that are unique to the industry must be overcome to realize the full potential of these life-changing therapies. Implementing an effective Biopharmaceutical Lifecycle Management approach addresses many of these challenges and can be achieved by incorporating the following principles into your overall digital transformation strategy:

• Digitally transforming the entire biopharmaceutical development workflow, including instrument connectivity, will provide a solid foundation for effective Biopharmaceutical Lifecycle Management.
• Integrating the entire workflow for seamless peer-to-peer connectivity for all laboratory instrumentation and applications will enable a comprehensive data transformation and workflow automation.
• Employing best in class solutions, such as the Scitara DLX platform in concert with the IDBS Polar platform, will provide you with the necessary tools to achieve operational excellence in the biopharmaceutical laboratory.
• Adopting a “data first” approach to Biopharmaceutical Lifecycle Management will reduce the time and cost of developing novel biological therapies and vaccines.

About Astrix

Astrix partners with many of the industry leaders in the informatics space to offer state of the art solutions for all of your laboratory informatics needs.  With over 25 years of industry proven experience, Astrix has the informatics specialists and business process analysis tools required to develop and implement the solution that works best for your enterprise. Our domain experts have helped hundreds of companies globally effectively navigate their digital transformation journey, connecting people, processes and systems to accelerate the advancement of science and medicine.

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Scitara is a global provider of laboratory-specific, cloud-based laboratory software solutions for the life sciences and other science-based industries. Their solutions are powering the digital transformation of scientific laboratories by enabling them with modern lab data connectivity infrastructure and tools to accelerate science.​

The Scitara DLX cloud platform allows plug-and-play connectivity between any device, instrument, laboratory software, informatics system, web service or lab resource, using their proprietary connector technology.

Scitara DLX enables the automation of workflows, task notifications, and bi-directional data exchange through a powerful and easy-to-use orchestration engine, allowing for the compliant transformation of in-flight data.

Connect:  “No Instrument or Application Left Behind”

Scitara embraces the instrument and application diversity found in most labs and are committed to developing Connectors for instruments, software applications and web services to drive the realization of an open digital data exchange platform.

Connect the universe of lab instruments, applications and services through the Scitara DLX universal, secure data exchange infrastructure:

• Multiple connection technologies supporting legacy and modern instruments
• Hundreds of instruments and applications supported through flexible configuration tools
• Quickly and easily add new devices and applications as needed
• Open framework for third parties to add new connector

Orchestrate:  “Unlock the Power of Automation”

All instruments and applications connected to the Scitara DLX platform are peers and can exchange information. Once an instrument or application is connected to Scitara DLX, it has access to any other instrument or application on the platform.

By delivering unrivaled automation of laboratory workflows – with a powerful and easy to use orchestration engine, the majority of routine, complex, and repetitive tasks can be automated, along with intelligent user notifications and remote working capabilities​.

• Enhances data integrity for output from simple instruments, eliminate manual transcription and deploy auditable chain of custody for simple instrument output
• Scannable QR code technology links to the instrument to the Scitara DLX platform and an authenticated user taking measurements.
• Take measurements using a tablet, phone or PC using the web based Scitara DLX interface
• Review and signoff steps are supported as well as incorporation of multi-step requests from LIMS or ELN. Instrument to instrument communications are also supported, e.g., sending balance weights directly to CDS.
• Reduce “in lab time” through targeted notifications for required lab activity
• User/group notification via text or email with data review, confirmation and signoff step

Monitor:  “Gain Vital Insights”

By providing unprecedented insights into laboratory and scientific operations – the Scitara DLX monitoring system ensures every data transaction in the lab is captured and made available for further analysis and decision making​.

• Full visualization of digital transactional activity as it happens
• Event stream and audit trail provide full transaction history
• Lab instrument and connection status
• Workflow progress and bottlenecks
• User and group notification

Conclusion: “Transforming Lab Connectivity”

Scitara is a neutral third party in an industry dominated by large instrument and application vendors. With an open and universal connector infrastructure that allows legacy and current instruments, applications and web services to connect to the cloud-based platform, customers can assemble and connect best of breed lab instruments, applications and other resources driving a true digital transformation without compromise.

The Scitara Cloud-based technology provides a standardized platform for communication and automated workflows lab wide. This dramatically simplifies the overall integration framework and makes automation possible where it was not possible before.  Scitara’s innovative informatics solutions are transforming lab connectivity, providing a key missing piece of science-based industry’s digital transformation efforts, which in turn will help accelerate the development of new life-saving therapies.

Why it Matters for You

Scitara’s DLX solutions are powering the digital transformation of scientific laboratories by enabling them with modern lab data connectivity infrastructure and tools to accelerate science.​

• Plug & play connector technology for modern and legacy instruments, software applications and web services drive the realization of an open digital data exchange platform
• Innovative IoT technology allows the secure, authenticated connection of virtually any non PC based device with a documented serial or Bluetooth API.
• Once connected, they become part of event driven Scitara DLX Orchestrations to automate, simplify and manage the exchange of data, putting the entire lab world of digital data at your fingertips.

About Astrix

Astrix has been helping scientific organizations implement and integrate new informatics systems in the laboratory since 1995. Our experienced team of expert informatics consultants bring together technical, strategic, regulatory and content knowledge to provide the most effective solutions to problems faced by scientific organizations.  Astrix partners with many of the industry leaders in the informatics space to offer state of the art solutions for all of your laboratory informatics needs.  Our domain experts have helped hundreds of companies globally effectively navigate their digital transformation journey.

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