monday.com for Scientists: how laboratory, project and client management has changed for the better!
March 10, 2021
monday.com for Scientists: how laboratory, project and client management has changed for the better!

Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with monday.com
- monday.com has changed literally everything for us in a positive way. I probably would have quit my job had I not discovered it.
- It saves a lot of time when I want to see the status of projects.
- monday.com has significantly reduced my email traffic.
- Operations are running really smoothly now that we can track projects against milestones.
- My boss is finally happy with me!
- It has made communication largely automated.
- The form view has enabled us to move away from developing our own software and simplified everything so much.
- I love how easy it is for me to set up or modify something, if I get a request from collaborators, I can very easily set up an automation to meet their needs.
We use monday.com to manage our biotechnology service platforms, to communicate within our research group and with clients using the biotechnology platforms. In addition, we are currently implementing it to manage budgets and administrative tasks involved in laboratory management and procurement. It has made a huge impact on our efficiency and communication. We use monday.com within our research group of about 50 people and to communicate to our industry collaborators across multiple companies and to gather information from them.
Pros
- Automated emails have saved me so many times. I have set up many of our boards to communicate status updates and automatically acknowledge receipt of samples, bookings and information.
- Filtering and sharing boards on a dashboard has helped me communicate project overviews in real-time to clients. I have created a client dashboard with all relevant information for their projects. They can easily access and see the status of their projects, this has reduced email traffic.
- monday.com helps me to have an overview of my team's activities, so when I have a new task I need to assign I can easily see who has capacity to take on the task.
- monday.com keeps track of our due dates and deadlines, so I have set up project milestones and can easily see if we are meeting our targets. This allows us to identify and address problems early.
Cons
- When sharing boards to a dashboard for clients to view, I would like to be able to hide the chat so that they cannot see messages we send internally.
- I would like to have an image widget on the dashboard.
- I'd love to have the app work on my phone without data and sync back to monday.com when I have signal again. We work in forestry field trials and in many areas we have no reception. I would love to set up monday.com to allow us to capture sample data in field and then sync back when we have signal, this would be so fantastic and would definitely allow us to extend the functionality to data capture in a really easy manner. I know this is not what it was designed for, but I set up a really nice board with the full layout of our trials and status column to indicate the disease status of trees, whether they were sampled, when and by whom, but I cannot implement this in field because it does not work offline.
- I know that monday.com has a lot of functionality for more common job types and I have modified many of the boards to assist in laboratory management. I feel that monday.com has great potential for research laboratories and research service providers and even agricultural field trials. One of the main limitations of working in large scale databases is working offline. If we could have this functionality we could make it really easy to set up the sampling plan, head out into the field and capture the data and then export into an excel spreadsheet for upload into databases.
- monday.com has a lot of potential for managing systems in a university setting and I am trying to use our boards as generic templates to allow other laboratories and technology platforms to adopt it easily. It would be great if you had a discount for educational institutes, many of our other software providers offer this to us since we are operating with research funding.
It has been excellent. I think the only slight concerns I have are that sometimes I have to go and check that the automations are still working, I think there has been the odd glitch. Secondly, when duplicating a board, I would like to have the option of duplicating the automations and integrations, it seems I have to set those up again. Lastly, it would be nice to have a restore function locally. We have on some occasions had people delete things and I would like to be able to restore it myself within a week of it happening. After that I think it is reasonable to ask for assistance from monday.com.
Do you think monday.com delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with monday.com's feature set?
Yes
Did monday.com live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of monday.com go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy monday.com again?
Yes
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