Technological survey on LIMS and ELN in Life Sciences - Biogenouest

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h) Benefits of implementing a data management system 12Nb. of respondents (N=17)1086420Figure 31 – Benefits of data management solution adoptionThere are multiple benefits of implementing a data management solution. Overall,the perceived benefits for SMEs are:1- Data management allows increased efficacy (10/17)2- Better internal organization (8/17)3- Keeping track and storing all data generatedAnalysis 1 -‐ The market The IT tool solutions (LIMS and ELN) market is expanding. As a matter of fact, theELN market is set to grow strongly as knowledge management becomes a priority.Although the LIMS market is mature, new cases are emerging to face specific R&Dneeds. LIMS and ELN can be overlapping, however they have different aims and willmost likely stay separate: traditional LIMS handles samples and laboratoryautomation, while the ELN’s core function is to replace traditional lab notebooks andplays a key role in IP and knowledge management.The R&D LIMS and ELN space is crowded and fragmented but a few vendors (bigplayers) stand out with wide solutions often linked to equipment set-ups. Smallplayers are positioned on niche markets and are going under M&A (merger &acquisition) activities from the big players.30
2 -‐ Quality system The <strong>survey</strong> shows that for the Life Science research based organizations (BiotechSMEs, technological core facilities and academic laboratories), the awareness levelfor LIMS/ELN is rather low. The majority already has in place or will implementshortly a quality strategy, despite the fact that the segment <strong>survey</strong>ed has differentunderstanding of quality and is not at the same level. Academic laboratories andtechnological core facilities have implemented a quality system (60%), but only 30%have certifications. SMEs are more advanced with a high ISO compliant proportion(70%).The motivation to implement a quality strategy is clearly different between thesegments. While academic laboratories and technological core facilities follow astrategy focused on internal needs, SMEs are implementing tools in response toexternal constraints.3 -‐ LIMS/ELN LIMS/ELN are in the same situation as software publishers 20 years ago, whenintroducing the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions such as SAP, Oracle,Business Object, etc. ERP was initially developed for the manufacturing industry andthen evolved into bringing the decision making information from all the departmentsin a company in one single place, in order to increase efficiency, productivity andprofit. The adoption of such solutions faced the same issues the LIMS & ELN iscurrently facing: high cost, complexity and time consuming.Another obstacle linked to LIMS/ELN deployment is the fact that it is much moredifficult to establish procedures in R&D than in other departments such asproduction, marketing, sales or accounting.The first implementation of ELN & LIMS started in 1990 for LIMS and 10 years laterfor ELN in the Chemical and Pharma industry. Those companies had the internalskills in-house to lead the successful implementation of data management solutions.Nowadays, the Pharma industry spends about 20% of IT budgets for ELN and LIMS.As described in this report, there are very few solutions currently available for SMEsand academics. To face the limited number of solutions as well as the non-satisfyingcommercial offer, a community of open source providers has emerged since 2005.These communities are small and do not ensure technical upgrades of availablesolutions over time.The unavailability of adapted solutions (from either commercial or open sourceproviders) led to the development of in-house solution by internal resources.Developing in-house customized tools instead of adopting commercial solutions (tooexpensive and time consuming in early deployment) is a first step of maturity but thein-house solutions are not guaranteed to be long lasting over the years.Users can be divided in 3 communities:- Early Adopters & Visionaries- Early majority- Late Majority & LaggardsSince commercial solutions are not suited to the early adopters’ needs, they developtheir own tools and handle the maintenance themselves. As a result there is nocommercial reference that can be implemented by the rest of community (early andlate majorities) expecting well-established LIMS and ELN solutions. Therefore, themainstream adoption is delayed.31
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