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LabVantage

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What is LabVantage?

LabVantage Solutions headquartered in New Jersey offers their flagship laboratory information management system (LIMS): LabVantage. The platform emphasizes flexibility, and supports research and development labs, quality control, biopharmaceutical, and other labs with operational support and workflow automation.

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Happy User

Incentivized
Larry SomrackView profile
President in Corporate at NSL Analytical Services, Inc. (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Worked very closely with us on developing the Statement of Work and provided us with a very good roadmap
  • Programmers completed the changes and improvements on time.
  • The contact for issues that arise on a daily bases is able to work with our people in a very professional basis.

Cons

  • Be more attentive to our needs and what we are looking for vs. telling us how we should work when it comes to improvements
  • Develop LVConnect interfaces with more instruments that is universal and easy to use

Return on Investment

  • The system has freed up chemists' time and effectively helped us to grow 12% per year over the past 3 years without adding a chemist FTE

Other Software Used

LabVantage, Microsoft Dynamics GP, GoldMine

LabVantage Review

Incentivized
Sharon MartinkoView profile
IT Manager in Information Technology at NSL Analytical Services (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Their project management staff and developers work well with the organization to fully understand the process that needs to be designed.
  • Their support staff is outstanding. They are responsive and work to rectify the situations that are presented to them.
  • It sometimes takes a long time for sales to answer questions on quotes and change orders.

Cons

  • The currently LIMS system is web based. Unless you have java programmers on staff that can create new 'workflows', you will pay for the enhanced functionality

Return on Investment

  • This software has allowed us to continue to grow.
  • We can output 20% more samples that we did with our old system

Other Software Used

GoldMine, TIBCO Jaspersoft, Microsoft Dynamics SL

Not an ideal solution for providing data services

Incentivized
Verified User
Project Manager in Research & Development (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Request tracking, numbering: LabVantage provides a unique number to each request, which makes requests easy to track and refer to.
  • Web-enabled: we can link to LabVantage requests and attachments from other systems.
  • Single Sign-On: users can use their network username/password to login to LabVantage

Cons

  • Request pages are hard to view, especially when viewing with a team on a large screen. We export the the request information into other systems so that we can hold team reviews and discussions
  • Prioritization. We use an agile framework for prioritizing requests. It would be so much easier if requests could be ordered in a prioritized backlog. Instead, we have to use a different tool for prioritization
  • Requester/PI billing linkage: I am not sure if this is something specific to our organization, but the linkages between Requestors/PIs and grants/pay accounts do not work well for our business. We are always have to come up with work arounds and exceptions to deal with system limitations.

Return on Investment

  • Executives like being able to run aggregated reports for usage across all cores and having a single place to collect all core billing information. However, for system users/analysts, it is a cumbersome time-waster and extra data-entry that does not provide any value to the team.

Other Software Used

Pivotal Tracker, QuoteWerks, OnCore, Atlassian Confluence, Bitbucket